Here is another collaboration space / tool you may find a use for. Flipgrid offers a free service for educators (authenticate via your school email address or Microsoft account) for creating a space for video back and forth conversations. Instructors use it for introductions, for discussions, and more. Learn more from the Flipgrid resources area… but… Read more »
Collaborator Activities
Building personal learning networks to collaborate and share knowledge with colleagues within, across, and between disciplines.
Annotation as Collaboration






Difficulty: 2 (rated by author; 1=easy <--> 5=difficult)
Created by Alan Levine • 493 views • 0 responses
From highlighting passages in a reading to scribbling notes in the margins, annotation has a familiar place in our roles as students and academics. Web-based tools such as hypothes.is provide a new level of collaboration to that process by giving us the ability to attach notes, commentary, discussion to any document that exists at a URL. In… Read more »
The Collaborative Dining Table






Difficulty: 4 (rated by author; 1=easy <--> 5=difficult)
Created by Anonymous • 1147 views • 13 responses
Think about the past year of your professional life. List the projects or ideas that you have collaborated on with others. On a piece of paper, or using graphics software, draw a dining table. Choose one of the projects you identified (successful or otherwise) and draw a place setting for each person involved at the… Read more »
Extending Your PLN






Difficulty: 4 (rated by author; 1=easy <--> 5=difficult)
Created by Anonymous • 932 views • 10 responses
List some specific activities that you can engage in to cultivate and expand your PLN. Give some of them a try and report on your progress. Write a blog post on the topic “Extending your PLN,” and if you are in twitter, tweet the link to it to @ontarioextend with the hashtag #oextend.
Mapping your PLN






Difficulty: 4 (rated by author; 1=easy <--> 5=difficult)
Created by Anonymous • 1328 views • 10 responses
To map your PLN, use a tool such as Google Drawings, Coggle (a Google Drive app for mind mapping), or PowerPoint to create a visual diagram of the people, organizations, collectives, and others who are in your network. (If creating a visual diagram presents a barrier for you, you can map your PLN by creating an audio, video,… Read more »
Play Catch






Difficulty: 3 (rated by author; 1=easy <--> 5=difficult)
Created by Anonymous • 660 views • 1 responses
The Catch is an eCampusOntario regular-ish blog about open and tech-enabled learning in Ontario PSE. It loves to accept contributions from educators in the form of telling us what you’re up to in your teaching and learning. It could be a blog post, a video, an audio clip of you rapping or even just a… Read more »
Meta Activity






Difficulty: 3 (rated by author; 1=easy <--> 5=difficult)
Created by Anonymous • 621 views • 0 responses
Add an activity to The Activity Bank by filling out the form on this page: Add a New Activity It can be for any of the modules. It can fit into more than one if you’d like. It can be anything that you think will add to the overall Extend set of activities! image credit: Photo… Read more »
Fetch






Difficulty: 4 (rated by author; 1=easy <--> 5=difficult)
Created by Anonymous • 557 views • 1 responses
The spiritual ancestor to the Extend Activity Bank is the DS106 Assignment Bank. Head on over there, find a cool assignment (like this one) that might fit here in the activity bank and bring it back. Submit it back here as an activity (crediting the source, of course!) And then, like, do the activity of course!… Read more »
Exit Through The Workshop






Difficulty: 3 (rated by author; 1=easy <--> 5=difficult)
Created by Anonymous • 744 views • 3 responses
Once you’ve decided to join in on all this Extending, write a blog post about it. Use words and pictures that paint the picture of the future of a world with you in it, Extending away like crazy. Add the link to your post here and also tweet it to #oextend. Yay! image credit: “North Woods… Read more »
Reflect on Extending






Difficulty: 3 (rated by author; 1=easy <--> 5=difficult)
Created by Anonymous • 540 views • 0 responses
Use your domain to reflect on your experience, so far, as an Extender! Has it changed your thinking? Your practice? Has it just shown you exactly how NOT to do something? After you publish your post, come back here and add it as a response. Tweet the link out to #oextend, too! image credit: “Reflecting”… Read more »