The key ideas to have in mind in this challenge are:

• Students need to learn how to use technology to work effectively on and carry out team tasks.
• Teachers need to provide their students with opportunities to connect with peers worldwide and help them develop skills, such as cultural sensitivity and acceptance of other cultures and traditions.
• Students can connect with students in other classes through blogging.
• Teachers can coordinate with other teachers to set-up video conferences between classes.
• The curriculum needs to offer students the opportunity to collaborate on a global project using cloud tools.

Global-collaboration projects that connect classrooms across schools and countries are a great way to bring this up.

Synchronous communication involves real-time communication. You will need to schedule a time zone friendly date and time to meet.

The following are free web tools to help us schedule our planning sessions and meetings: 

Doodle 

Create polls with suggested meeting times and dates and invite participants to select their preferences. Participants don’t need the app or an account to select their preferences. Syncs with your calendar.

Padle 

Students can add sticky notes with links, video, pdfs, or audio. Choose 

backgrounds or upload your own, password protect, and get an automatic QR code for your wall. Only the teacher has to register for a free account.

Stoodle

An online collaborative whiteboard tool, which includes audio tools for easier 
collaboration. Features include drawing, coloring, adding text, and uploading files. No registration required.

One of the easiest ways to connect with other schools is with Skype, a video conferencing tool available on the web, own 

browser, and as a mobile app. 

Blogging is one way to get your students to have ongoing communication with peers worldwide. They can post their thoughts, images, videos, and their creations about various topics. Students in other countries will be able to leave comments at a time convenient to them. 


The activity we  plan with another teacher/teachers should focus on getting students to collaborate with peers at a different school.