Fostering unity and understanding through collaboration
We, humanity, are one people - with many faces, many colors, many beliefs - sharing one home, one destiny, one global future. To keep our world safe and the future promising for today's youth, we must work and learn and grow together.
The Internet offers us an immediate way to join together, telecollaborating with educators and students around the world. Here at NickNacks, we can help, whether you want to participate in a telecollaboration or start your own, with information to help you and projects to join.
Joining a Telecollaboration
If you're new to telecollaborating, NickNacks provides:
- Participant's Guide: easy to follow instructions for assessing your resources and capabilities, finding a project to meet your needs, and getting the most from this learning experience.
- Online Resources: NickNacks offers an extensive set of links to telecollaborations on the WWW, mailing lists, useful tools, lesson resources, and online publications. New resources are added monthly and links checked quarterly, which is essential in the ever-changing scope of the Internet.
- Innovative Projects: NickNacks developed and tested innovative thematic telecollaborations with supporting instructional resources and extension activities. Techniques and lessons learned are incorporated into our instructional information base. These successful projects are posted as demonstrations to guide others in creating their own projects.
When you're ready to offer your own instructional project, NickNacks provides guidelines, hints, and tools:
- Assessing your Capabilities: NickNacks resource checklist can help you determine what you have and what you can do, or what you need to do the project you have in mind.
- Designing Your Telecollaboration: NickNacks provides a project planner template which when completed includes all the information you need to begin your telecollaboration
- Models: NickNacks demonstrates the project development process with complete project plans, calls and outcomes for actual projects. New approaches are regularly developed, tested and showcased. Links to other innovative projects are also provided.
- Tips for Leading a Successful Collaborative Project: Success factors learned from our own project experiences. Based on real telecollaborating experiences , our hints cover planning, recruiting, training, during the project, and wrap-up.
- Tools of the Trade: basic software useful in exchanging information is explained. Resource links are provided and assistance available in solving technical problems.
Online support
- Email: We're happy to help you find what you need, or answer your questions concerning telecollaborating and exchanging information. Send your requests to info@telecollaborate.net. We respond within 24 hours.
Behind the Scenes
Founder and director Nancy Schubert serves as Curriculum and Instruction Technologist for the Bachelor of Applied Science Degree Program in the University of Minnesota's College of Continuing Education. Nancy's background includes ten years as an instructional technology consultant, twenty years of teaching and training in collegiate, social services, special education, and elementary schools settings. Nancy has an M.A. in Psychology and additional graduate study in Experimental and Applied Behavior Analysis.Nancy launched NickNacks Telecollaborate! in 1996. Collaborative projects are developed as cooperative experiences with classroom teachers and students to ensure the applicability and relevance of all activities.
Nancy firmly believes that education must be a joint effort--teachers, students, parents, and community working together--and volunteers many hours to support technology enhanced learning in grades K-12.
belongs to the entire global community.
Together we make the world a hopeful place to learn and grow.
For more information, contact: info@telecollaborate.net
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