Telecollaborative Lesson

In today’s time, most of the people’s routine begins with checking up on their e-mail, blogs, online networks, news updates, and many more of the web links they enjoy and incorporate into their lives. The World Wide Web has become the new modern library; here you have an endless possibility to gather information about any interests there is to imagine. Teachers across the world have created a way to use the endless wire ring the net provides in order to expand the knowledge in classrooms by exposing their students to others experiences who leave across the globe. Teachers are organizing formulated telecollaborative projects by tying them in directly to the student’s curriculum. This method of teaching must be established with a clear objective, and its purpose must prove that it can only be accomplished via the structure of a telecollaborative project. Before beginning a telecollaborative project, teachers should learn about other’s telecollaborative projects that have already been delegated by other teachers; this gives teachers a better understanding of the dynamics of a telecollaborative project. Teachers must be aware of all of the necessary work this type of project involves before deciding to go into it. They are required to allocate time to respond to all of the correspondences they will be receiving from students or anyone who gets involved. Teachers should also understand there will be many factors that will come in into play when using technology and classrooms that are not physically present. Like dealing with people’s schedules, technical errors, time differences, etc... Teachers should also maintain all records of the telecollaborative project, that way the knowledge found, can be distributed to the overall community either by individual’s online search or by the teacher informing the media. This is a great method of sharing knowledge; it uses the World Wide Web as a piggy back ride in order to develop a world community. The telecollaborative project gives the citizens an enormous gift of compassion and the understanding that we leave in an inter-dependent society.