Relfections - Rock Our World
What is Rock Our World?It is Collaboration, communication, Creativity, curiosity, and compassion.
Came up with idea and used GarageBand. Everyone came up with 30 second of drums and passed it along and collaborated on by everyone around the world. Surrounded herself by emailing teachers after doing Google searches. Sent hundreds/thousands of email and first project to get six continents. Now have added Antarctica.
Collaboration - old view, check what page they were on to coordinate.
Key - find out strengths and weaknesses. Surround yourself with others who are experts (strengths) in your weak areas.
Project is all about communication and sharing. Talking face to face, find out similarities, same smiles and different sounds (language). Last round on digitla story telling. Go to American Film Institute training on digital story telling. Everything online at www.rockourworld.org. Have created a Moodle to begin. You need to register with Moodle (simple process) to access.
Rakau Sticks (New Zealand) - Did a project sharing games. Watching a class in New Zealand play this game. Showed recorded version. Nice rhythm activity (Note to self - have to show my wife for future)
Students gain understanding of self and place. Connections apparent, some students had difficulty dealing with students who were living in the future (on the other side of the international dateline)
Next showed tools, iLife and GarageBand. Talked about Audacity. Created iMovies to document. Used iChat to support conferencing.
Has been a stepping stone, utilizing new relationships to forge new projects. In Rock our World, all children world wide speak in English. Why? Done a story unit, where primary create stories and older students in district (Spanish, French, German, Latin) translate and then read the story. Through relationships, have expanded the range of languages (Japanese).
There is value in face to face communications, to keep context.
You can make a difference. The world is full of bias, stereotype, intolerance, fear, prejudgice, and discrimination and these ugly things are in media and many books in the library. Peel off the ugliness to possibility, appreciation, tolerance, respect, compassion, acceptance (and empathy, my addition) through connection.
This was live blogged. Apologies for mispellings and rough word choices. It has been a long week today and they are started the session with selections from Schoolhouse Rock while I overlook the obscene vendor floor (looks like Vegas for educators, scary when I walked in and saw a booth for a classroom electronic Jeopardy game that an educator claimed it was the next greatest thing since sliced bread. Scary. Photo to follow)
There are so many great ideas that are simple which create connections. Too bad we are always looking for the grand huge project, rather than finding smaller simpler projects which are easy to implement and will have a quicker and with an equal impact.
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