Plan-A-Project Project

The intent of this project is for you to plan how your own telecollaborative project for which you will invite other participants. If you are planning to participate in someone else's telecollaborative project, then you should look at the Participate Project.

Note about Ed Tech Standards

This project is often used to fulfill the Technology for Diversity standard in the Pre-Internship Portfolio. You could complete this project without meeting this standard, but you might want to have this standard in mind when preparing the project.

F. Technology for Diversity
Technology can be a powerful tool for affirming cultural diversity. As a technology facilitator, you should be mindful of the variety of technologies that increase global understanding and affirm cultural diversity.

Facilitate students’ use of technology that addresses their social needs and cultural identity and promotes their interaction with the global community.
Select and apply current and emerging technology resources to affirm diversity and address cultural and languages differences.

Implementing Internet projects in your classroom requires a great deal of planning. Chapter 4 of the textbook describes the process of planning a project. Follow these steps to plan an original multi-classroom project. Follow the steps in detail as if you are actually going to carry out the project (hopefully, you will carry out the project with your students next semester, but that is not a requirement for this class). Document all the steps you took or plan to take in your report, including:

describing your curriculum-related goals
details of the activity structure you have chosen
a "literature-review" discussing examples of other similar online projects
details of your project, suitable for a public announcement of your project
a plan for how you will advertise your project to attract other telecollaborators
a plan for what you will do once telecollaborators express interest in your project
a description of the kinds of ongoing communication you will maintain
a description of your plans for closure, such as what final product telecollaborators will get at the end

This plan should be detailed enough so that you will know exactly what you are doing if you choose to do the project.

Minimum Grading Criteria

Create a detailed plan with all the elements listed above as described in the textbook
You should create this in the form of a web page that includes correct HTML tags (although it is not required that you use HTML to create the page); you might wish to create some of the material as pages that will be used as the project's web site if you choose to implement the project
All your work should be professionally presented, including correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
Note that you should plan for telecollaboration with unknown partner classrooms/teachers even if you expect to do this project on a small scale with other teachers that you know.

If the minimum grading criteria are met, you will receive a B for this assignment. The grade of A is reserved for outstanding work that goes beyond the minimum criteria. See the rubric for more details about grading criteria.

What To Hand In

A copy of your detailed plan/web page
(Optional, but required for an A) Paragraph describing how you have exceeded the minimum grading criteria.
Note that the best way to hand in work is by putting it on the Web and submitting the URL via the Moodle Assignment. If it is not submitted that way, all work should be submitted electronically via the Moodle Assignment; you should put ALL files that are part of the assignment in a single folder and compress it in Zip format to save the files as a single archive.

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This page was created by Dr. David M. Marcovitz.

Last Updated: December 16, 2011