#CDNcraft - This years iteration of this project between SCDSB and Wikwemikong

Please check out http://CDNcraft.com for this years project! 2016 - 2017

Pictures from our secondary Minecraft world

Reflections on Participating in #CraftReconciliation by Vickie Morgado

Vickie and her class were leaders throughout our collaboration this year. Check out her reflections on the project at her blog!

You can also find Vickie on Twitter - @vickiemorgado1

http://globalconnections2014.edublogs.org/2016/06/07/reflections-on-craftreconciliation/

We challenge all teachers, students, classes who participated to share and reflect on the project. You can blog here on this blog, or on your own blog like Vickie did.

Check out Student Work!

Wow.

What a great collaboration. Since February participating classes have;

• joined in 12 Google Hangouts on Air with each other over 4 months
• participated in a Google Hangout on Air with Waubgeshig Rice 
• wrote, read and responded to over 700 posts in our D2L online discussion forum
• created video, images and audio to introduce themselves and share about their communities with each other 
• defended what they felt to be 'the most important' Call to Action from the TRC and compared these with each other 
• challenged each other to learn new lingo and understand what terms like 'unceded' means
• read books along the theme reconciliation and shared reviews online using GoodReads
• worked together in two separate MineCraft worlds to build their collective vision of reconciliation
• Elementary (link to video overview of world coming soon!)
• Secondary (link to video overview of world coming soon!)
• posted an image, video, text or audio reflection in either our closed D2L online discussion or public galleries
• Elementary Gallery
• Secondary Gallery
• posted thought and ideas on twitter using the tag #craftreconciliation 
• created images with sayings to help break down stereotypes and shared these on twitter or our public gallery 
• annotated reading material online using collaborative annotation tools - all around the them of reconciliation 
• created murals combining both Indigenous and non-indigenous artistic styles to show working together 
• designed and build dioramas to show the relationship between Indigenous and non-indigenous in the past, present and future 
• wrote letters 
• wrote news report to be turned into an eBook

One thing for sure can be said about our work together - the students owned this.

Thank you to the participating classes. I invite you all to post reflections and learning here on our blog at anytime. I've learned so much from all of you!

Wikwemikong Board of Education

Wikwemikong High School 

Grade 11 and 12 English - Julie Balen

Grade 10, 11 and 12 English - Caroline Black

Grade 10 Native Studies - Jessica Fellin

Wasse Abin Pontiac School

Grade 5-8 CoCurricular - Sue Griffen and Cathy Harley

Simcoe County District School Board

Orillia Secondary School 

Grade 11 Native Beliefs and Values - Sheena Penfold 

Nantyr Shores Secondary School 

Grade 10 History - Penny Chaiko

Midland Secondary School

Grade 10 History - Leslie Beckley

Grade 9 Geography - Scott Blake 

Twin Lakes Secondary School

Grade 10 History - Barry McCann

Penetanguishene Secondary School

Grade 9 English - Stacy Robitaille

Grade 9 Art and Grade 10 History - Shalleen Riley

Codrington Public School

Grade 7 - Todd Casselman

Upper Grand District School Board

Orangeville District Secondary School

Grade 11 Native Studies - Susie Chamberlain

Chippewas of Rama First Nation

Mnjikaning Kendaaswin Elementary School

Grade 7 - Jeff Cosco

Rainy River District School Board

Mine Centre Elementary School

Grade 6 - 8 - Jessica Sweigard

Peel Catholic District School Board

Grade 3 - Vickie Morgado

York Catholic District School board

Christ the King

Grade 6 - Robert Cannone

Peel District School Board

Grade 5 - Kerri Evershed

Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board 

St. Faustina Elementary School 

Grade 3 and 4 - Sylvia Vanaselja

Our Secondary Gallery

Our Elementary Gallery

An image of our closed, rich online discussion forum.

May 30th 2016 - Google Hangouts on Air

Today we have our final Hangouts for classes who were collaborating together in Minecraft and our D2L (Brightspace) discussion forums. Will be exciting to hear what students have to say about the process.

You can see some student reflections in our gallery here.

You can also see our "Breaking Stereotypes Challenge" gallery here.

9:30 am Secondary Group 

 

10:30 am Elementary Group  

 

12:50 pm Secondary Group  

Breaking Down Stereotypes - New Challenge!

Please join us in this open challenge. We challenge all students to create an image that states an "action" that they do to help break down stereotypes as we work towards reconciliation.

You can use any tool you wish to create these images. One option for students over 13 is  www.canva.com. Most devices such as laptops and tablets have installed tools that can be used to edit images.

When done, please tweet your image with the tags #TRC and #CraftReconciliation.

Then, add your image to our public gallery here. To add the images to the gallery, you will have to create an account. For those not wanting to create an account please email your images to jcalder@scdsb.on.ca / jbalen@wbe-education.ca or tweet them tagging @jacbalen / @jaccalder. We will make sure they get added.

Here is an example

Orangeville District SS - Plans for "Crafting"

Check out the amazing ideas that the students from Mrs. Chamberlain's (@SavingSusie) class at Orangeville District Secondary School have shared!

Follow the students work on twitter @namwayut @namwayut

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