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Tips and Advice for Projects and Collaboration

  • Don't hesitate - it is always a good idea to do a project and collaborate.
  • Go with it - but don't expect everything to go the way you planned it. 
  • Have reasonable  pedagogical expectations - a project is a good way to reinforce a concept, but probably not a good way for students to learn new material.
  • Modify as needed - the projects are meant to be adapted.
  • Set aside appropriate time.  Most of the projects take 1 - 3 days.
  • Collaboration with another school takes patience.  Be clear in your communications with other educators.  Understand that we all operate under many constraints.   Expect a collaborative project to take about 2 weeks from start to finish (even though the actual time on task will be much less).
  • Use convenient web tools for collaboration.  I highly recommend edmodo for a collaborative platform.  Even if they have never used it, students will master it instantly.  Google Docs is a good place to create shared documents.  Geogebra is an excellent utility for graphing functions and data.  All of these are free.
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