Global Collaboration

Global Collaboration Case Studies

In the world of education, case studies are stories shared as a teaching tool to show the application of real situations to get students around the world collaborating. In the textbook I have been reading, The Global Educator, there are numerous amount of online global collaboration case study examples. Each one is an example of online global interactive, collaborations, and projects. Teaching about these projects and doing them, gives students the ability to work with others outside of their classroom. Out of the collection of case studies in the book, one really stood out to me and I believe they can be helpful and fun for all students.

The case study that caught my eye was 3.7-Pernille Ripp: Global Read Aloud. Pernille Ripp is the creator of GRA and the winner of the inaugural ISTE Global Collaboration PLN award. This is a global reading project that has linked together over 500,000 students in six continents since she started GRA in September of 2010. This project is such a good way for not only students to stay connected but teachers too. Teachers can share books they’ve read aloud with other teachers all over the world. This gives schools the opportunity to expand the range of books they read aloud in the classroom. Pernille Ripp still has ambitions to further develop the Global Read Aloud project.

Like you would like to connect with Pernille Ripp click here for the Global Read Aloud website. You can also sign up for the 2020 Read Aloud. Her Twitter handle is @pernilleripp.

Collaboration With The Use of Technology

Many K-12 classrooms are moving from only doing projects with classmates to doing projects with others around the world. How are they doing this you may ask. Well, with the help of technology, students can connect with others using many different platforms such as Zoom, Google meets, Google docs, Microsoft teams, Skype, etc. In this post, I am going to be talking about how schools used different platforms to collaborate with other students around the globe.

Chrissy Winske wrote an article explaining five different ways that different schools used technology to work with not only other students in the school/classroom but students in the world. One example that she discusses is about a school in North Carolina. The middle schoolers were given a science project and they collaborated with a classroom all the way in Sweden. Now, neither school had the tools to be able to videochat one another but with the help of Skype, Voice Threads, Crocodoc, and Wiki, the two classrooms were able to collaborate on this science project. Each teacher was able to upload the assignments on Crocodoc where the students could have easy access to them.

The students from North Carolina and Sweden were not just working together but they were able to get to know each other. Each of them created a profile page and gave some background about themselves. Using the profile pages allowed them to interact with one another on a personal level and not just talk about the science project. Doing this whole collaboration science project, gave the students a look into global collaboration.