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posted Feb 16, 2012 3:32 PM by Bonnie Thurber
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updated Feb 16, 2012 3:36 PM
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Whether
it be a sonnet or a cinquain, we encourage students to share their
literary work and discuss it with one another. Students can use this
project to develop their poetry knowledge and writing skills by sharing
and discussing poems they have written, narrated and/or illustrated
(optional) in an online Poetry Month community.
The iCollaboratory invites all students to participate in the International Poetry Project. To register send email to icollaboratory@gmail.com with your school name, number of student participants and grade levels.
Activity 1: Take a Poetry Survey April 1-7
1.1 International Poetry Survey
1.2 View Survey Results 2010
Activity 2: Select a Poem Type April 1-14
2.1 Types of Poetry
2.2 Poetry Links You RecommendActivity 3: Write a Poem April 7-21
3.1 How to Create a Google Doc
3.2 How to Create a Web Page
3.3 International Poetry Project
Activity 4: Share & Comment April 21-30
4.1 International Poetry project
Activity 5: Final Survey and View the Interactive Map April 27-30
5.1 Poetry Survey -- Final
5.2 Write a Reflective Summary about what you have learned
5.3 Interactive Map: International Poetry Project 2012 Participants |
posted Feb 16, 2012 2:53 PM by Bonnie Thurber
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updated Feb 16, 2012 5:37 PM
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 Welcome to the Moon Phases and Faces project. When the moon is full in the USA, what does it look like in Brazil? Students create images of the moon, share their information in webpage and comment on each others web page.
In this six - seven week project, students take a survey, learn all about the phases of the moon and how the face of the
moon differs in the northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphere by observing the moon each day; taking photos and/or drawing the moon as it changes each day during the month; sharing a moon journal; and commenting on other moon journals. The project will conclude with a survey and written or videoed reflection.
The project will start on April 1, 2012.
To register for the project, contact icollaboratory@gmail.com.
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posted Dec 29, 2011 12:54 PM by Bonnie Thurber
The iCollaboratory invites students in grades 4-8 to participate in the Annual Rebecca Caudill Book Club.NOTE: This project is not affiliated with the Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Program. To officially participate in the Rebecca Caudill selection process, your class must register and send in their votes to the Rebecca Caudill Young Reader’s Book Award Program. For more information, visit http://www.rcyrba.org/ Activity 1: After registering for the Project, students log in to the iCollaboratory and take a survey about what types of books they like to read and why they pick them.
2012: What is Illinois Reading? Survey View past years surveys:
2011: What is Illinois Reading? Survey
2010: What is Illinois Reading? Survey
2009: What is Illinois Reading? Survey Activity 2: Students and teachers will submit links to the forum about Rebecca Caudill books, authors and any related information. They can also submit links about Rebecca Caudill and the Rebecca Caudill Award. Students will use the forum to help them select the books they want to read.
View past years links: 2011 Rebecca Caudill Cybrary
Activity 3: Students will submit reviews of the books they have read in the Rebecca Caudill library and read the reviews of other students. View past years work:
Activity 4: After discussing the books they have read, students will vote on their favorite Rebecca Caudill nominee and will analyze the results. They need to read at least four books. The voting takes place in February. View past years work:
Activity 5: Rebecca Caudill Map - 2012 Where are the other Rebecca Caudill Book Club participants?
View past years participants:
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posted Oct 29, 2011 11:30 AM by Bonnie Thurber
The iCollaboratory invites all K-12 students to participate in What I Am Thankful For. Students take a survey about being thankful and then use their creativity to write, record and illustrate an essay about what they are thankful for. They then share, read and comment on essays with each other.
To register for this year's What I am Most Thankful For project: K-12 teachers send email to icollaboratory@gmail.com between September 1 and November 1. In your message, please include your full name, grade level you teach, and your iCollaboratory user name. When the iCollaboratory receives your registration, we will change your account a teacher account for you so you can create accounts for your students.
If you do not have an iCollaboratory user name, please click Create Account, top of the iCollaboratory Home page.
What I am Most Thankful For starts November 1, 2011
Activities for the project include:
Week one, Activity 1: The Thankful Survey
1.1 Survey: What I Am Most Thankful For
1.2 View Survey Results
1.3 View Survey Spreadsheet Results
Weeks two-three, Activity 2: Write & Publish Your Thankful Essay
2.1 Teachers: Create Your Class Web Site
2.2 Students: Create Your Web Page
2.3 What I Am Most Thankful For Website
Weeks four-five, Activity 3: Review & Comment
3.1 Review & Comment on Essays
For questions and more information please email icollaboratory@gmail.com
Thank you! |
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posted Sep 21, 2011 12:47 PM by Bonnie Thurber
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updated Sep 21, 2011 1:04 PM
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Whether it be a scary story or a fall poem, we encourage students to share their literary work and discuss it with one
another. Students can use this project to develop their writing skills by sharing and discussing their narrated
and/or illustrated (optional) writing in our online community.The Scariest Stories project activities described below are designed to take about one hour a week in a school computer
lab or on set of classroom computers. Teachers should plan to spend an hour a week in addition to the computer time.
Students who get involved spend more time writing, sharing and discussing their stories. How to register: - If you are an educator with an iCollaboratory account, send email to icollaboratory@gmail.com letting us know your class will be participating. We will send you information about creating student accounts and give you permission to do so.
- Log in to the iCollaboratory.
- No account: If you are an educator, please create an account. If you are a student, your teacher should create your account.
- Scroll down the iCollaboratory start page, click Sponsored Projects. A new page opens.Click Scariest Stories and Fall Poetry.
- Click Yes to register. When you are registered, the project page appears.
October 1-7: The Scariest Survey
Students take an online Survey to learn about the other students who are participating, what they like to do on Halloween
and what they are most scared of. October 8-14: The Scariest Forum After registering for the Project, students, as a class, select one link representing their collective ideas about a scary
story, Halloween tradition, or local legend from their hometown or region for students in other regions to view. Teachers
submit the selected link to the Scariest Stories Forum. - Please feel free to reply to other links with appropriate comments. October 15-21: Write and Share Your Scariest Stories
Students use their iCollaboratory Sites accounts to write and share a scary story. The story may include text,
illustrations and audio narration/sound effects (optional) or a very short video (optional). The stories can be written in
any native language.
October 22-31: Review and Discuss Stories
Students review the stories others have written and discuss them online by contributing comments at the end of
each story. The comments can be written in any native language. Please also translate them into English.
November 1-7: Take a Final Survey and Write a Reflection. Students take a final survey to see if their ideas have changed. They write a reflection about what they have learned from the stories and comments of others and from their own writing and writing comments.
Information or help: icollaboratory@gmail.com |
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posted Aug 10, 2011 3:29 PM by Bonnie Thurber
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updated Aug 16, 2011 1:33 PM
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Welcome to The Moon Over Us iCollaboratory Project! 欢迎来到《我们上方的月亮》
The Moon Over Us is a collaboration with schools in Beijing. It will run from September 4 to October 7. After the first project we will be continuing with additional collaborations. The iCollaboratory, http://www.icollaboratory.org, is partnering with Kidlink, http://www.kidlink.org, for this project.
“我们上方的月亮”是一个与美国学校的合作项目。 它将从9月4日一直进行到10月7日。在第一个项目之后，我们将继续其他的合作。在这个项目中，iCollaboratory （http://www.icollaboratory.org）与Kidlink（http://www.kidlink.org）一起运作。In the project, students aged 10-16 and their teachers from around the world share information about the moon and discuss this information by commenting on each others web pages. 这个项目让学生学习关于月球在空中的运动。在这里，来自世界各地的学生和教师分享关于月球的信息， 并且在iCollaboratory网站上讨这些信息。
If you are interested in participating in the project, please email icollaboratory@gmail.com or ghf123@yahoo.com
如果你对参加这个项目有兴趣，请发邮件到 icollaboratory@gmail.com 或 ghf123@yahoo.com
Activities in this project include: 这个项目中的活动包括：
September 4-10: Teachers and students register for Kidlink, www.kidlink.org, take a survey about the moon, and view the results.
9月4日至10日：你知道月亮的什么事情？做一个关于月亮的调查并且观看结果。
September 11-17: Students look at the website map to find where project participants are from and take pictures of the moon once a night for five nights.
9月11日至17日：项目的参加者都在什么地方？在地图上找到参与学校的地点。每天同一时间在同一个地方以同样的角度拍月亮的照片。
September 18-24: Students analyze pictures and compare alignment and create individual Kidlink webpages to share knowledge, experience, photos, facts and stories about moon with other students.
9月18日至24日：分析你的照片。你照片中的月亮是什么月相？它与地球和太阳是如何排列的？你还知道关于你照片中月亮的什么事情？ 创建你的网页来同其他学生分享你关于月亮的知识，经历，照片，事实和故事。
September 25-30: Students and teachers view and comment on webpages by other participating students.
9月25日至30日：阅读并评论其他参与学生的网页。
October 1-7: Students and teachers share what they have learned from this project.
10月1日至7日：告诉我们你从这个项目活动中学到了什么。
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posted May 25, 2011 6:28 PM by Bonnie Thurber
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updated May 25, 2011 6:32 PM
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This summer we will be updating the site and putting in new projects. We will also be closed for a few days while we perform Moodle updates. Please be patient if you hit a construction sign. It won't take long.
Thanks, The iCollaboratory Team |
posted May 10, 2011 5:52 PM by Bonnie Thurber
Announcing A Day in Our
Neighborhood Project
The iCollaboratory Project invites all K-12
students to participate in the A Day in Our Neighborhood to learn more
about the communities around us. In the project, students and teachers from
around the world will share information about their communities will discuss
this information through the iCollaboratory web site.
A Day in Our Neighborhood
Cybrary
After registering for the Project, students and
teachers will place information about their school and community in an online
template at the iCollaboratory called the Neighborhood Cybrary. All students and teachers participating in
the project will be able to see information about each others schools and
communities.
A Day in Our Neighborhood Survey
On May 3 or 4, 2010, students take an online Survey
and then review the results to learn more about each other and their schools
and communities.
The Day in Our Neighborhood Gallery
During the first week of May, students take
photographs and record video and audio (optional) of the locations in their
school and community.
During weeks two and three of May, students share
these digital materials with other participants, along with descriptions of
what their photographs and/or recorded clips feature. Participants come back
and comment on each others work.
The Day in Our Neighborhood Interactive Map
The student work in this project will be
accessible through an online interactive map that will mark the different areas
where the data, photographs, audio clips and captions were collected for this
project.
Notes: Please
check with your school's Internet privacy policy before posting any material.
Please visit http://www.icollaboratory.org
to complete the registration form and view the project.
For more information or help please email icollaboratory@gmail.com
Thank you,
The iCollaboratory Team
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posted Mar 10, 2011 5:26 PM by Bonnie Thurber
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updated Mar 10, 2011 5:35 PM
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 Whether
it be a sonnet or a cinquain, we encourage students to share their
literary work and discuss it with one another. Students can use this
project to develop their poetry knowledge and writing skills by sharing
and discussing poems they have written, narrated and/or illustrated
(optional) in an online Poetry Month community.
The iCollaboratory invites all students to participate in the International Poetry Project.
Activity 1: Take a Poetry Survey April 1-7
1.1 International Poetry Survey
1.2 View Survey Results 2010
Activity 2: Select a Poem Type April 1-14
2.1 Types of Poetry
2.2 Poetry Links You RecommendActivity 3: Write a Poem April 7-21
3.1 How to Create a Google Doc
3.2 How to Create a Web Page
3.3 International Poetry Project
Activity 4: Share & Comment April 21-30
4.1 International Poetry project
Activity 5: Final Survey and View the Interactive Map April 27-30
5.1 Poetry Survey -- Final
5.2 Write a Reflective Summary about what you have learned
5.3 Interactive Map: International Poetry Project 2011 Participants |
posted Nov 25, 2010 11:56 AM by Bonnie Thurber
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updated Dec 12, 2010 12:37 PM
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The holidays are fast approaching and it’s time to set your students up for a Winter Internet Book Club!
The iCollaboratory now hosts five Internet Book Clubs for grades K - 12 students that start in December! The Book Clubs encourage students to read, write and comment about the books. You too should encourage students to read, write and comment about the books over the holidays and continuing on into the New Year!
The Internet Book Clubs include Illinois Library Association and State of Illinois Lists:
- Abraham Lincoln Internet Book Club (Grades 8-12)
- Read For A Lifetime Internet Book Club (Grades 8-12)
- Rebecca Caudill Internet Book Club (Grades 4-8)
- Bluestem Internet Book Club (Grades 3-5)
- The Illinois Monarch Award Internet Book Club (Grades K-3)
All teachers must be registered through the iCollaboratory, http://www.icollaboratory.org/create-account, so they can register their students for the specific reading list in which they want to participate!
For information and questions, please contact the iCollaboratory Team at icollaboratory@gmail.com
Good readers read. Good writers write. Readers who write about their reading are even better readers. :) Please join us for winter holiday reading.
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