www.bridge.edu.au Introduction:
The BRIDGE web page provides a smorgasbord of resources for teachers and students involved in the project to use to support intercultural collaboration.
This activity is designed to introduce you to some of these resources. Throughout the homestay and school visit it is expected that you will further familiarise yourself with the BRIDGE website.
For Korean/Australian partnerships: http://www.bridge.edu.au/en/collaborations/collaborations_landing.html For Australian/Indonesian partnerships: English:http://indonesia.bridge.edu.au/en/collaborations/collaborations_landing.html Indonesian:http://indonesia.bridge.edu.au/id/kolaborasi/kolaborasi.html 3. When starting a sister school partnership, what do you think is the most important consideration?
4. What is most essential in maintaining an effective partnership?
5. What do you and your partner see as the most useful handy practical hint for collaborating?
6. What is the most pertinent ‘do and ‘don’t’ for your partnership?
7. Explore a current collaborative activity undertaken by an existing partnership. What is one aspect you both could use in developing your Wikispace?
8. In discussing you and your partners Cyber Safety policies, how do you think you will address this important issue in developing a process for engagement?
For Australian/Indonesia partnerships: http://indonesia.bridge.wikispaces.net/ For highlighted partnerships: http://indonesia.bridge.edu.au/en/collaborations/current_collaborative_activities.html
14. Explore some of the existing partnerships between Australian and Indonesian schools on Wikispaces. Begin to build your joint Wikispace. Consider including the following:
a) Note that you CANNOT edit the same page at the same time. Discuss a process for editing pages with your team.
Decide on the 'Look and Feel' of your Wikispace
b) Introduction to your school - including weblink, Google map and other useful information
c) Autobiographies of teachers participating
d) Bilingual (?)
e) Developing guidelines for use of Wikispaces and publish them for users to read (upload the Cyber Safety guidelines you have created)
f) Create separate pages for the collaborative activities you will undertake