This week with a group of Year 7 students I have started working on the .COMmunity project inspired by Saltash.net teachers James Edwards and Jen Dunkey.
What is it?
“This project has been set up to empower the students to take control of their learning and promote independent learning as well as peer to peer collaboration. The students will be deciding on what the content will be and therefore shaping how this project develops.
As teachers we hope to link students and their communities from around the world. It is our hope that this project will help show the similarities and diversity of the different cultures and communities in our world.”
The idea is that students and schools to collaborate with each other via the projects website http://dotcommunity2012.wordpress.com/ to allow them to build and establish their own communities. Showing what they
value as individuals as well as the importance of the different roles we all play within our communities in the places where we live.
I spent an hour with some Year 7 students talking about what community meant to them and then collaboratively creating a PowerPoint to produce some background information on them and the school to upload to the website.
http://www.slideshare.net/chickensaltash/international-school-dot-community-project