Project+Plan

(Great collaborative work ahead! Page under construction.)
1. Identify classrooms/students interested in project (global reach) 2. Students are placed in diverse teams and choose a country to study.
 * Project Plan **

3. Start with virtual handshake - multimedia presentation of personal interests and lives: 4. Mixed teams research and report on protest movements in assigned country using questions on each country's wiki page as guideline 5. Teams reflect on bigger picture of **democracy** (could be multimedia presentation posted to posterous or wiki) 6. Each student shares 1-2 minute multimedia "aha" moment of learning from project.
 * Students meet online - pre-project reflection, personal introduction, Skype and synchronous options explored.
 * Students join wiki, join posterous & create personal profiles.
 * Students review time zones, geography, holidays, seasons.
 * Timeline for project and commitment by students is established; language and communication guidelines are reviewed.
 * Classes post times they meet for possible meetings online
 * Classes review responsible online communication as part of an online community
 * Tools might include video clips, voicethread, audio clips, created with any of a number of web 2.0 tools.
 *  Ideas may include: **
 * Consider what we can learn from pro-democracy movements across region. How can what's happening in [country studied] and other countries inform students' understanding of government and democracy in their own country?
 * Collaborate with students from other countries to compare & contrast the meaning of democracy
 * Describe their personal involvement in exercising democracy and how their involvement has an impact
 * Reflect on the public speech aspects of a revolution (demonstrations, wall art/graffiti, etc.)

Three-Four weeks in October
 * Timetable **