Tool #7: Reaching Outside Your Classroom

There are so many possibilities when it comes to opening up your classroom.  At this point, you've left the clouds and have journeyed into the infinitas of space.  With the new tools the district is providing, the only thing that can hold a teacher back is him/herself.  While I don't have a classroom, I have a plan I'd like to try out this year; one with teachers.

Plan with Matt Glover

• Content objective: Plan a Unit of Study via Skype with Matt Glover
• When you plan to implement: October 2011
• What tool(s) you plan to use: Skype, TodaysMeet, Google Docs.
• A brief description of the project: Matt Glover spent a day in person last year with our First Grade Team. We had made plans for him to come back this year to plan a Unit of Study with us. However, due to funding and budget cuts that is not going to be possible. I am hoping that he may be willing to donate some of his time, maybe an hour, which I think he will or perhaps for a nominal fee that we would meet with us via Skype to get us started in planning a unit of study chosen by the First Grade Team. We would continue the planning on our own and then meet back with him via Skype to share our final product with him.

Blasting onward to #8...