Seven+Steps+Design+Principles+and+Teaching+Strategies

= Seven Steps Design Principles and Teaching Strategies = //Students will decide what type of final presentation they want to create using equally acceess web 2.0 tools.// ||
 * **Connection** || //We will use Ning (for the home project page), Wikispaces (for colaborative notes), Weebly (for finished products) and Skype (for celebration) to connect teachers and students during this collaboration. Decisions will need to be made based on the available tools and resources of the collaborating school// ||
 * **Communication** || //Teachers will have a project email address so they can talk about the project and/or troubleshoot. Students will primarily be using asynchronous communication. The final celebration or live meeting will be synchronous as long as the schools can make it work on both ends. Determine appropriate tools and strategies for monitoring and facilitating communication. All communication will follow rules of netiquette and "////culturally sensitive, gender appropriate, language sensitive, context aware communication"// ||
 * **Citizenship** || //Teachers will help students learn and practice clearn, positive communication while online and in person. They will learn about careful and safe creation of an online profile as well as how to best manage their own PLN. Students will learn international copyright and creative common, intellectual property and fair use laws, ethics and rules and will apply them to their work on this project.// ||
 * **Contribution and Collaboration** || //Each member of the school group will be responsible for being an active participant throughout this project. Work must be posted on the various sites for teachers to monitor and evaluate. Each member will have a distinct role in the project so that the end result would not be the same without contributions from every person. Students will need to have an outsourced portion of their final project from a member of the other school. Also, students will maintain an individual reflection blog throughout this project.// ||
 * **Choice** || //What information students highlight and how students choose to display their information is up to them.//
 * **Creation** || //Final projects will be posted on the Weebly and published in a sort of Wikipedia-style comprehensive history site. Information to have on the Weebly includes: background of what school A believed, background of what school B believed and a summary of the final revised perspective. After one project has been completed, it will serve as an exemplar or template for other final products. Teachers will evaluate and assess using a collboratively created rubric.// ||
 * **Celebration** || //At the end of the project, teachers will arrange for a synchronous meeting and celebration if possible. If time zones do not provide for such a meeting, an asynchronous celebration will be arranged. Students will share a synthesized overall reflection of their perspectives on studying history.// ||