My partner and I collaborate every day. We tend to eat lunch while we have each other on speaker phone. It is kind of funny, but necessary. We really lean on each other seeing we are on a bit of an island at our own schools. Considering all our coworkers are at different campuses, it can be a lonely job at times. We take our lunch time to talk about our experiences at our schools and determine how we want to move forward. We also use this time to troubleshoot, help each other out and work on our “shared vision”. As Chris has mentioned in his blog, he came up with a “model” for us that really pulls all of our ideas together. He gave it the acronym of GPS - Global Collaboration, Professional Learning Communities and Shared Vision. This model truly is our navigator. We are sharing a vision of pushing our 2 schools towards more collaboration and building learning communities. With this mission we are confident that things will organically fall into place and the ultimate goal of fully instructing to the 21st century learner will happen.
October’s Shared Vision - Student/Teacher Collaboration and Building the Technology Resource Folder
November’s Shared Vision - Assisting teachers to build a PLC (Public Learning Community) through Twitter and continue to strengthen the collaboration among students and teachers.
December's Shared Vision - Allow teachers to share their findings with others. Brainstorm as a group and individually ways to turn activities that are not engaging into student centered creativity.