The Global Collaboration PLN is a new community for the International Society for technology in Education (ISTE). As Chair of the PLN I am working with a team of dedicated educators to build membership, share resources and discuss global connections and collaborations.Last week we presented live at an ISTE Learning Series webinar. Here are the resources from that presentation.Don't forget to follow the hashtag #ISTEglobalPLN to learn more. We have a tweetchat every month (the fourth Tuesday evening, USA times, each month). The next one is coming up on Tuesday March 24 at 7pm PST.The Getting started with connected learning and global collaboration webinar recording is available online. The slides are embedded below.A big thank you to Eva Brown, PD coordinator, Anne Mirtschin Community engagement for the Global PLN and to Theresa Allen, also a Global PLN leader, and to Leah Obach and Devon Caldwell, and Kaleigh Henrikson.If you are an ISTE member - come and JOIN the ISTE Global Collaboration PLN!Cross posted with Flat Connections Blog.Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration

13 Digital Research Tools For The Google Generation "@Julia_Brannon: Digital Credibility: 13 Lessons For the Google Generation http://t.co/6ZG97oz4Gh via @TeachThought" #INF530 #ETL523 tags: INF530 ETL523 digitalcitizenship education ISTE | Introduce your students to 3D printing To introduce students to the process of going from idea to design to printing, I showed them a video that described how 3D printing works. The printer allows users to manufacture an object using a digital modeling program or by downloading a design from Makerbot’s Thingaverse site. Next, I showed students three videos from Makerbot’s site about explorers who have used 3D printing to invent, create, refine and benefit humanity. Technology enabled many of these inventors to collaborate across continents. In the case of Spuni, they set out to improve the design of baby spoons. With Zboard, 3D printing helped entrepreneurs make their products by facilitating the iterative process of design. " tags: 3dprinting education makerspace iste Finland schools: Subjects scrapped and replaced with 'topics' as country reforms its education system - Europe - World - The Independent I believe this is NOT a new idea, the IB have integrated interdisciplinary topic based learning into PYP and MYP already. As a country-wide approach however this is quite radical. "Finnish schools are obliged to introduce a period of "phenomenon-based teaching" at least once a year. These projects can last several weeks. In Helsinki, they are pushing the reforms at a faster pace with schools encouraged to set aside two periods during the year for adopting the new approach. Ms Kyllonen’s blueprint, to be published later this month, envisages the reforms will be in place across all Finnish schools by 2020." tags: education Finland interdisciplinary ibo School lunches around the world - Features - Food and Drink - The Independent This topic would make a great global project! tags: globalproject education The Learning Zone: Stepping Away from the Comfort Zone | eLearning Blog tags: learning education Telepresence Robots Bring Teachers into Classrooms tags: robotics education virtual MDTA Beginning teachers 2014 An interesting way to use Thinglink and share portfolio and video work. Could be used in a K-12 setting to share teacher and/or student development. tags: Web2.0 teachereducation education TeachMeet Int'l - Home tags: teachmeet education global globaleducator (Rethinking) Makerspaces — @joycevalenza NeverEndingSearch tags: makerspace education choice 50+ Global Issues Makers Can Solve - Make: | Make: tags: education global maker issues Educator Resources | Agency by Design tags: designthinking visiblethinking makerspace maker education Maker Education Activities - Home Jackie Gerstein shares resources and ideas to support the Maker Movement across the world tags: makerspace education creativity FlippingPD - Home Pre-service teachers teaching teachers to infuse technology into any curriculum tags: education professionaldevelopment Tools of the trade: ‘Breaking the ice’ with virtual tools in online learning | Sue Gregory, Helen Farley, and Pauline Roberts - Academia.edu tags: onlinelearning handshake digitaltechnologies education virtual TeachMeetMelbourne - home tags: teachmeet education Web 2.0 Presentation Tools: A Quick Guide tags: Web2.0 presentation education multimedia Stepping Up the Backchannel In the Classroom | Langwitches Blog tags: backchannel education Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration

Graham Brown-Martin - TEDx Learning {Re}imabined for education revolutionariestags: Tedx education learningREimagined Australians’ digital lives—researchacma report - YouTube tags: education Australia digital research statistics Connecting Your Students with the World: Tools and Projects to Make Global Collaboration Come Alive, K-8 (Paperback) - Routledge tags: education globalcollaboration globalprojects book Learning (Re)Imagined | Graham Brown-Martin | TEDxAmsterdamED - YouTube Learning (Re)Imagined: How the connected society is transforming learning. Graham is a huge believer in the fact that education will only change by getting more people involved.In this engaging and witty talk packed with images and quotes, Graham discusses his research in Learning (Re)imagined and some of his key conclusions around transformation and learning that include context, environment, engagement, technology and the future.tags: tedx education learningREimagined Education Chats tags: tweetchat Twitter education How does #Edchat connect educators? SmartBlogs tags: edchat Twitter tweetchat education Educational Hash Tags tags: hashtag education tweetchat Twitter LumenEd: Connecting classrooms around the world Take a look at this innovative idea to connect classrooms gor global learning.tags: globalproject globalcollaboration education 5 Characteristics Of Global Learning tags: globallearning education global Comparison Charts of Popular Ed Tech Tools - FreeTech4Teachers.com tags: edtech tools free comparison education Free Technology for Teachers: 10 Charts Comparing Popular Ed Tech Tools tags: free techintegration education The Other 21st Century Skills: Educator Self-Assessment | User Generated Education Created by Jackie Gerstein - very useful overview and diagram to assess teacher skills and readiness for 21C teaching and learning.tags: 21centurylearning 21stcenturyskills education digitalliteracy The Flipped Classroom Model: A Full Picture | User Generated Education tags: flipped flippedlearning education Global Student Projects Sonya Van Schaijik shares her ideas and experiences to encourage others to join and create global projectstags: globalproject globalcollaboration educationPosted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration

Using YouTube for Schools with your web filter - YouTube Short screencast on how to set up YouTube for schools and filter only educational videos to your school. tags: education youtube digitalcitizenship filter security Well-known Global Education Advocate Joins VIF as Development Director tags: VIF education globaleducation Finland Meets Florida | Yammer and Corinth Classroom - YouTube Finland meets Florida - connected learners http://t.co/SKkgUvRczD @julielindsay #edtech #elearning #msftedu @Yammer tags: edtech elearning msftedu microsoft education Finland globalproject globalcolaboration Teaching in a Digital Age | The Open Textbook Project provides flexible and affordable access to higher education resources tags: free ebook education onlineteaching digital Anne Mirtschin: The World is My Classroom - YouTube Revisiting Anne's keynote for the Global Education Conference in 2013. tags: globaleducator education globalprojects globalcollaboration The one form of literacy you need most right now -- according to LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman tags: connected_learning networking education digitalliteracy Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration

The Evolution of the Employee - do schools understand this? | Lucacept - intercepting the Web The Evolution of the Employee - do schools understand this? http://t.co/8rq0JswFiM tags: education future Twitter for the #GlobalEducator | Asia Society #FF Special: Our list of who to follow to get started with #globaled. Who did we miss? http://t.co/BYOX07dZB9 http://t.co/aJBZ1gmEp9 tags: FF globaled globaleducator education asiasociety Participating in a Twitter Chat | Teacher Tech tags: twitter chat education online educational-origami - Bloom's Digital Taxonomy tags: bloomstaxonomy digitaltaxonomy education Good for module-level objectives. - post by Rob Piorkowski From the website you posted I went into a lot of the PDF files that Bloom offers and they were very self explanatory and easy to follow. - post by Jamie McGinley SOLO Taxonomy versus Bloom's Taxonomy - HookED Wiki tags: SOLOtaxonomy bloomstaxonomy education KMRoundtable - April 2015 (with images, tweets) · boffin66 · Storify tags: education knowledgemanagement designthinking storify 44 Diverse Tools To Publish Student Work tags: education tools publishing Web2.0 Webtools: No Registration Needed for Students | Nathan Hall tags: education tools Web2.0 Teens, Social Media & Technology Overview 2015 | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project tags: education pew research socialmedia Educators - Flatten your learning and VOLUNTEER to judge student work! We need you! - Flat Connections Flat Connections regularly needs volunteer teachers to help review students work. This is a great opportunity to be part of global collaborative learning and to extend your PLN. Volunteer today! tags: education flatconnections globalyouthdebates fcgp Global Story Map | Digital Promise Global This is an interesting approach to sharing global educators and their activities across the world. tags: global globalproject education Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration

There has been much conversation about challenges to online global collaboration and how teachers are overcoming barriers to effective implementation of this.With over 20 years experience developing online global collaborative opportunities across the world, these are my essential ‘Norms of Global Collaboration’. They are behaviours to be practiced in all possible modes (synchronous and asynchronous) when collaborating globally.I am interested in what you, as a global educator and collaborator, think. What would you add? What would you change?  Allow time for effective communicationCommunicating from opposite sides of the world means we need to allow at least 24 hours for partners to respond, and not become frustrated if in fact it is more than this, but obliged to nudge for a response beyond 48 hours. This is where collaborative tools such as Google docs or wikis have set the standard for what can be called ‘effective’ communication. New text, images, links, and comments can be left asynchronously for global partners to respond to on the document or page. The goal is to keep communication localised to the discussion and not in emails.Use clear, global language Remember at all times there is often more than one way to spell a word or to describe a thing or situation. Therefore global partners are not ‘wrong’ when they spell differently to you. Clarity is achieved by using common language such as referring to months rather than seasons, providing timezone conversion charts (e.g. http://timeanddate.com) for meetings, and being able to convert temperatures and measurements as needed, to mention a few.Question actively for cultural understandingMisunderstandings between global partnerships can be avoided with more careful questioning - either synchronous or asynchronous. Nations have unique cultural sayings that, although usually very funny, do not support understanding unless questioned and explained. For example, a typical Australian statement might be ‘I will put my case in the boot before we go’, meaning they will put their bag in the closed compartment of the car. How odd! Inquiry-based collaboration is encouraged at all times.Be reliable and visible onlineWhen collaborating around a table face-to-face it is almost impossible to not contribute as the norm is to allow for and request opinions from all. However in an online scenario it is VERY easy to be ‘invisible’ by not responding or contributing to online spaces. Make sure all members of the collaboration understand how and where to contribute and what the expectation is for doing this reliably (timeframe, frequency)Contribute and respond oftenTo avoid the breakdown of collaborative relationships frequent and responses from all contributors will help make the collaboration productive.It is not only about contribution however, collaboration relies on interaction and responding. So, adding your ideas and material and then becoming invisible is also not acceptable in a collaborative environment. Responses to individual contributions fosters problem solving and co-creation of outcomes through ongoing discussion and knowledge buildingShare local and global dataAll global collaborators are encouraged to share local data - often one of the most challenging things to do. Seeing and hearing things familiar in daily life makes them almost too ‘normal’ to share and a feeling of disbelief that someone else would find it interesting or relevant. Sharing local images, occurrences, statistics etc. helps to build empathy between collaborators and to build a global data collectionShare questions about global topics - do not be afraid to say you do not understand or do not know - this is where global partners, in true collaboration, will support new understandings via their frequent responses to questions and commentsAim for co-created outputA well-designed online global collaboration is about co-creating something. This final norm aims for understanding about this co-creation and encourages all collaborators to work towards this. It may be a co-created statement or document that all have contributed to, or a co-created multimedia artefactInnovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration

ISTE to Recognize the Global Read Aloud | Global Read Aloud Delighted as the Chair of the ISTE Global PLN to share the Global Read Aloud project as winner of the ISTE Innovation in Global Collaboration Award. tags: isteglobalpln education ISTE15 Using the Internet to connect students and teachers around the world for 'virtual exchanges' | Edutech Excellent blog post by Michael Trucano (World Bank) about "Ten comments, questions and perspectives on connecting students and teachers around the world to each other to facilitate 'virtual exchanges'" tags: globalcolaboration education globaleducator A New Education Paradigm | Sonya Van Schaijik tags: education globalcollaboration Announcing - Innovation in Global Collaboration Award winners tags: ISTE ISTE15 globalcollaboration education isteglobalpln Global Education Day at ISTE 2015 Heading to ISTE in PA this year? Come and join Global Education Day! tags: education globaleducation iste15 CSU Interact - Copyright for Teaching @ CSU - Library Guides at Charles Sturt University tags: CSU education copyright Study on MOOCs provides new insights on an evolving space | MIT News "oday, a joint MIT and Harvard University research team published one of the largest investigations of massive open online courses (MOOCs) to date. Building on these researchers’ prior work — a January 2014 report describing the first year of open online courses launched on edX, a nonprofit learning platform founded by the two institutions — the latest effort incorporates another year of data, bringing the total to nearly 70 courses in subjects from programming to poetry." tags: MOOC education onlinelearning Make videos online with photos, clips, music - Stupeflix tags: education free video Web2.0 Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration

Press release: Online Global Collaboration with Flat Connections Projects Feb-June 2015 - Flat Connections tags: education flatconnections globalprojects Innovations in Education - Developing Future Workskills Through Content Curation tags: curation education Snapchat Murders Facebook - YouTube tags: socialmedia education Snapchat Murders Facebook - YouTube tags: socialmedia education Facebook eLearning Future: What Will eLearning Look Like in 2075? - eLearning Industry tags: future elearning education O’Reilly Media - What Is the Internet of Things? tags: internetofthings education Getting to Know Skype Translator and its Uses for Education - EdTechReview™ (ETR) tags: Skype education translation Viva la Library (The Information Literacy Song) - YouTube tags: informationliteracy digitalliteracy digitalcitizenship education fun Digital Citizenship | An Ethical Island tags: digitalcitizenship education Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration

Generation Safe tags: digitalcitizenship education Digital citizenship | UWCSEA | International school in Singapore tags: digitalcitizenship education Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration

Can you teach digital citizenship, if you are not an active digital citizen yourself? | What Ed Said Perceptive blog post by Australian educator Edna Sackson. tags: digitalcitizenship education Jaime Casap Explains Why Global Competence Matters: It's Not Really a Small World - Global Learning - Education Week We need to create a generation of critically-thinking, collaborative problem solvers. Students who know and understand world issues. Students who understand political and socioeconomic systems on a global scale. Students who recognize and appreciate cultural diversity. If we really want to face and solve the problems of this complex, multifaceted, diverse, and complicated world, we need a generation of students who are strong in all the C's: communication, collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, and global competency. Great new blog by @jcasap on the imperative of #globalcompetency and #globaled. Join the #globaledchat Thurs 5pm PT! http://t.co/dUk2JgdYC0 tags: globalcompetency globaled globaledchat globalcompetence education global Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration