The first meeting of the 2012 first project of "

1. ‘A Week in the Life…’ 2012-1
A Flat Classroom® Project for Elementary School students
Grades 3-5, age 8-10
While you are waiting, please go
to “Tools”, “Audio” to test the
“Audio Setup Wizard”

2. How many of you have used
Blackboard Collaborate?
Vote Here

3. Julie Lindsay
(Bangladesh, Qatar, China)
Vicki Davis
(Camilla, GA)

4. Last year…….
• http://aweekinthelife11-1.flatclassroomproject.org/
– Over 300 students
– 14 classrooms
– South Korea, Canada, Qatar, USA
• http://aweekinthelife11-2.flatclassroomproject.org/
– Over 370 students
– 22 Classrooms
– Canada, Poland, China, South Korea, USA

5. Project Management AWL 12-1
Project Managers
Toni Olivieri-Barton toniobarton@gmail.com
BetsyeSargentphoenix@phoenixschool.org
LT Community Builders
Donna Roman donna.roman@gmail.com
Donna Esposito dje180@gmail.com
LT Meetup Manager
Tina Schmidt mrsschmidtb4@yahoo.com
LT Multimedia Mentor
Maureen Tumenasmtumenas@berkshirecountryday.org

6. How many of you have used
Wikispaces?

7. Essential Questions Which Will Be
Answered
• What are the similarities and differences
among children around the world?
• How can we connect with each other through
our commonalities?
• How does your geography where you live
impact your topic?

8. 1. Do some research on a week in the
life of children in your school around
these topics:
• School time
• Languages & Clothing
• Housing & Transportation
• Leisure time
• Holidays &Celebration
• Environment

9. 2. Collect multimedia and share with
team members
• Multimedia choices:
video, audio, slideshow, cartoons, etc.
• Share multimedia online via team wiki pages
• Discuss differences and similarities between
multimedia

10. 3. Complete a final project
demonstrating your information to
the rest of the group.
• Each classroom will be responsible to
assemble a number of team projects
• Upload finished projects to the wiki
• View all the group projects and compare and
contrast the results.

11. Do you think the final project should
be individual or group?

12. Workflow AWL 12-1 – Part 1
Classroom Handshake
Class Handshake, teachers’
Edmodo Join the AWL 12-1,
comment, interact
Team Formation
In Teams, individual
Edmodo Organize by Teams
handshake
Multimedia Collection
Wiki, Edmodo Sharing raw multimedia

13. How many of you have used
Edmodo?

14. Good Tips for Edmodo

15. TEAMS
Team 1 Team 2 Team 3 Team 4 Team 5 Team 6
School Time 1A 1B 1C 1D 1E 1F
Languages and
2A 2B 2C 2D 2E 2F
Clothing
Housing and
3A 3B 3C 3D 3E 3F
Team Topics
Transportation
FLAT CLASSROOM TEAMS 2009
Leisure Time
Food and
4A 4B 4C 4D 4E 4F
5A 5B 5C 5D 5E 5F
Celebrations
Environment 6A 6B 6C 6D 6E 6F
‘A Week in the Life...’ Team Grid

16. AWL Teacher Admin Doc
• You have been invited to this
– List of resources as reference
– Add your details – class size, experience etc.
– Newbies and veterans sections
– https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kHsxHrPzr
p4BD4AGTpofarDXcbKRP2MQ9OUHBKwmPi8/edit

17. Fill out teacher information

18. Should Already Have:
Fill in the online billing form
Join the wikispaces
Join the Teacher Google Group
Joined the Ning
Joined the AWL 12-1 on the Ning

19. Adding School on Wiki
• All Teachers will need to join the wiki
• Add their school on the home page with
– Their school logo
– A time stamp from clocklink.com
– A school photograph of students or the school

20. Putting Schools and Students onto Team Grid

21. Before Next Meeting AS A TEACHER
• Fill in the Teacher admin doc.
• Post a pre-project teacher reflection on the
teacher blog
• Join Edmodo as a teacher
http://www.edmodo.com/
– Group: FCP AWL 12-1 Code: fbijrm
– Create a separate group for your class (optional)
– Do not add students yet!

22. Before Next Meeting WITH STUDENTS
• Work on a Classroom Handshake to share on
Edmodo
• Classroom to Classroom Handshake
– Skype: http://skype.com or
– Eyejot: http://eyejot.com

23. Project Workflow
• Online Teacher Information Meeting: February 28
• Classroom Handshake and Team formation:
March 1-15
• Student Handshake (by team) and Project
Discussions: March 15-April 15
• Multimedia Collection and Sharing: April 15-30
• Media Collation and Product Development: May
1-15
• Celebration, Summits and Reflections: May 15-
June 1

24. Questions?