This blog post accompanies my session, The Power of Collaboration, presented at the 2018 Nebraska Distance Learning Association Conference.

PPT (minus the video clips)

A few recommended blog posts regarding collaboration

• What do you see as the power of collaboration?
• Collaborative projects are the “third wave”
• The future of collaborations
• Sharing a biochemistry class via videoconference
• Curriculum videoconferencing definition

COIL: Collaborative Online International Learning

COIL is the higher ed version of what the videoconference projects I was heavily involved in till 2011. Read more from my recent attendance at a COIL Conference where I made connections between the two:

• What is collaborative online international learning?
• COIL needs CAPspace
• Ideas for collaborative online international learning
• Comparing collaborative projects at the K12 and higher ed levels
• A focus on “international” in COIL
• Supports needed for COIL
• Research literature on COIL

K12 Collaboration Examples Shared

• Ecoconversations (Note: since wikispaces is closing down this summer, I’ll be moving this site soon.)
• Read Around the Planet, coordinated by TWICE in CAPspace
• MysteryQuest, MysteryQuest USA, HistoryQuest (Note: since wikispaces is closing down this summer, I’ll be moving these sites soon.)
• MonsterMatch / Monster Mayhem
• 123 VC: Jazzing Up Your Curriculum with Videoconferencing

Bibliography

• Cifuentes, L., & Murphy, K. L. (2000). Promoting multicultural understanding and positive self-concept through a distance learning community: cultural connections. Educational Technology Research and Development, 48(1), 69-83.
• Martinez, M. D., & MacMillan, G. (1998). A Joint Distance Learning Course in American Government (No. ED428005).
• Owston, R. (2007). Contextual factors that sustain innovative pedagogical practice using technology: an international study. Journal of Educational Change, 8(1), 61-77.
• Sweeney, M. A. (2007). The use of videoconferencing techniques which support constructivism in K-12 education. Dissertation Abstracts International.
• Warschauer, M. (1997).Computer-mediated collaborative learning: Theory and practice. Modern Language Journal, 81(3), p. 470-481. Also at http://www.gse.uci.edu/person/markw/cmcl.html
• Yost, N. (2001). Lights, Camera, Action: Videoconferencing in Kindergarten. Paper presented at the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference.
• For more videoconferencing related literature, see my research and dissertation.