Connect+and+Collaborate

Connect and - Myles Webb and Claire Buist

This was my third year of presenting at U-Learn. I enjoy it after the initial self doubt because the preparation and presentation itself creates the need to evaluate and assess your own philosophy and teaching practice.

This particular break-out was especially challenging because I had not met Myles prior to our presentation. Our classes had commented on each others blogs and a class at his school had skyped with Room 7, sharing their mihi and helping Room 7 to develop their mihi. It was by his invitation that we presented the benefits and mechanics of collaboration with teachers and classes from around the world.

The presentation itself demonstrated collaboration. We brainstormed and put together our outline on google docs and then built a wikispace together. We decided the best way to demonstrate the power of collaboration was to call on others and throughout our presentation, we had three teachers skype in to share there perspective. These were teachers from Australia, USA and Canada.