OpenLearningOnline - Connect-Collaborate-Create

The Open Classroom Model

http://thecleversheep.blogspot.ca/2013/01/7-degrees-of-mooc.html

Connect:
*Exploring Social Media and Web 2.0 with Walls*

Become a Connected Educator –Go over the 7 Stages of Connected Learning
Encourage your students to become, “Connected Learners” – Start learning with them :)
Learn about social media – get on twitter and follow people
Read other people’s blogs, start to create your own
Join an Online Community like Classroom 2.0
Key Resources:

Michelle Baldwin's Blog
David Truss - Blog
Rodd Lucier- Blog
Richard Byrne - Blog
George Couros - Blog
Silvia Tolisano - Blog
Laurie Renton - Blog

Collaborate:
* People have to be able to comment or respond to your work*

Start to link posts and answer the people you follow on twitter. Create a Storify about your conversation and share it.
Reply to people’s blogs, twitter questions and in discussion posts in open educational communities
Think about your Digital Identity Online – and how to help and support others
Participate in open projects like Flat Classroom or collaborate with another class on skype or on a blog/Wiki

Key Resources:
Voicethreads - Research
Voicethreads - Examples
#BeyondFacebook12 Example for Storify
#IdentityDay

Create:
*You are using digital tools and social media options to create new learning***

Open Courses	Open Projects	Open Interactions
Online Course – Open to the world Philosophy 12 Remix a Course, k12 style #DS106	Global Classroom wiki 2012-13	Twitter Chats Google Hangout Quests
Open Online Coursess – k12 style #BeyondFacebook12	OC Projects Robotics Macbeth Module FMNI Voicethread Carnaval Project - Languages	Classroom2.0 Open Online Webinars Open Webinars for HS students

The goal is that you transition from one stage to the next, but all three stages are met throughout a course, school year or project depending on the level of the students.