The tool I think would be used best in the classroom for a global cooperation project would be chinswing.com by far. Again, this website allows any users to post a short voice message about any ongoing topic, or even create a brand new topic to discuss. This is a more intimate way to talk with others than simply typing through a message board. It puts a voice to the face one sees in the picture. Because it allows simple voice messages, the teacher (or anyone who wants to start a new topic) can create a new forum for the lesson. The teacher can record the directions for the global project and simply post this to the forum, so others in the project from any classroom/country can hear what needs to be done, and students can instantly work together in a whole new way on the project/lesson. This also puts aside cultural differences through understanding and speaking with others around the globe. I feel this would be very interesting to me as a student because it allows us to break language/cultural barriers and see others opinions who are not a part of our culture.
The only difficulty I could see happen is that some students might not have a microphone, or it might be too expensive to "require" students to participate. It would most likely be feasible in school in a computer room.
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Jennifer,
Does chinswing allow posting messages by phone. Several of the asynchronous sites do and that might solve the problem of not having a microphone on a computer at home. All the tools listed in mod 7 keep getting updated, so if chinswing doesn't offer that feature now, it may in the future. However, sometimes these sites will allow phone posting only from the US. That would solve your problem, but maybe students in other countries would still need microphones.
Dr. Burgos
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