Over this past Summer, I came up with a really cool telecollaborative design project for use in my middle school mathematics classroom. For this project, I decided to have students create a coordinate plane picture and record the coordinates for the points of their picture. The teacher would then upload the original picture and points to my telecollaborative site where I would match them up with another group of students to use their pictures to transform (translate, reflect, rotate, dilate) the points on the coordinate plane and upload the new image and coordinates.
Now that I have some experience with Web 2.0, I can see an advantage of using these types of tools for that project. I think it would be great for students to collaborate with the original artist to get help if they get stuck transforming the picture. This would require some sort of comment tool like in a blog. Although this is not a necessary step, it would cover a covert goal of teaching netiquette in the middle school classroom through use of appropriate comments and responses.
I really like my telecollaborative design project and can't wait to get the time to actually implement it. I can see the effectiveness whether I go with a Web 1.0 format or a Web 2.0 format, but I think the learner interest may best be suited for a Web 2.0 environment if possible. Web 2.0 is the way of the future and it is important to use it for some covert goals to get students ready for the 21st Century workforce. After all, I don't like writing blogs, but I am getting very accustomed to following and reading other blogs. My latest, Elana's Pantry, with some great gluten free recipes for Girl Scout cookes. What's a cookbook again? Ain't nobody got time for that!
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