It’s been such an incredible week, capping an inspiring two-month journey with all of you. After weeks of sharing and collaboration, together we produced a beautiful book that is a powerful resource and a tribute to your collective energy, dedication, and passion for extending the classroom beyond its physical walls. It’s hard to believe that it’s time to wrap up our time together. Though If You Learned Here 2015 is ending, we know that this is just the beginning of an extended adventure for each of us in using technology to expand what’s possible for us as teachers, and for our students.
Here are the closing activities for our project:
Here are the closing activities for our project:
Online Wrap Party tomorrow! To celebrate, we invite you to join our Wrap Party via Google Hangout on Air on Saturday, May 2, at 5:00 p.m. Central Standard Time. To watch, just click this link. We would love to have some of you join us live in the GHOA to share your thoughts. If you are watching, you can use the Q&A feature to ask questions and leave comments. Feel free to use the Applause feature as well! |
Final Flipgrid Please remember to post to our Final Flipgrid about “What We Learned Here.” This is a great way to collect students’ closing thoughts and feelings about the project! Even if you didn’t publish book pages, we’d love to have your school represented in a final video reflection. |
Final Padlet: Readers’ Guestbook Think how powerful it will be for the kids to hear from their audience around the world! That’s what the Readers’ Guestbook is for. Take a photo (or multiple photos) of kids and adults reading the If You Learned Here eBook. Or just leave a note with the name of your school and your location. Either way, please participate in this last Padlet, and encourage others in your school community to do the same. Share the book and the Padlet with colleagues, parents, other classrooms, neighbors -- anyone who might like to read it! We’d love for the Guestbook to be an ever-growing gallery of global readers. |
Book Download Tips We’ve hosted the book in Google Drive for downloading. This isn’t the speediest option perhaps, but it was the best free option available to us. Here are some tips for getting the book to your students:
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Ongoing Collaboration Feel free to reach out to one another using the information in the Teacher Directory (using the password in your email). We hope some of you might find ways for the collaboration continue! Also, we will send you a survey next week to get a teacher perspective about what worked well during this project, what could be improved, and what ideas you might have for the future. |