Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Thing 15 - Collaboration with Media Specialist

---Describe your experience with collaboration, a successful collaboration you have been part of. What made it work?
Collaboration with our Media Specialist, Linda Wise is a great experience!! She knows so many things and resources to use, and is always willing to help by finding new web sites or things I can use in class and adding (after verifying them) sites to our long list of resources. What a positive asset to the kids' research and learning experience.

---What do you see as barriers to collaboration? How can the barriers be overcome?
Is collaboration worth it?
Barriers - I see only one as the school day and times are structures now, and that's time. It takes time to work together and time to find resources to use for students. Once the projects are set up they are invaluable and can be updated or adapted easily. Planning far in advance can overcome the time crunch, and the collaboration is well worth it; evaluation of the project and collaboration can be done by student results and comments, with the project ready to go for the next year.

1 comment:

Linda said...

How true that there just isn't enough time. Thanks for the kind words. It is a pleasure working with true professionals like you whose students' needs are always first and foremost on the to-do list. Linda