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What are collaborative projects? • Where students work with others towards problem solving, creating a product, researching and providing information on a specific topic for a specific audience.

Why do collaborative projects? • Student engagement • Real, rich, relevant tasks (ref) • Addresses the Interpersonal Development domain of VELS • Can be cross-curricular • 21st Century skills

How to do collaborative projects? • Join/use and existing one • Adapt an existing one • Develop a new one

Who can you do collaborative projects with? • Small groups within the class • Whole class • Your class working with other classes within your school • classes from other schools locally, interstate and overseas • community organizations • government organizations • higher education • business organizations

When can you do collaborative projects? • One lesson • A unit of work • A year long project • An ongoing project

Where can you do collaborative projects? • In class • Within the school • At other schools • Outside school • Online • Telecollaborate! • A combination of the above