Critique of Flatworld Classroom Project

I enjoyed watching the videos from students around the world. I was impressed by their tech savvy with the video.

I think the instructional objective was to explain their chosen concept using video and wiki software as well as other web 2.0 apps. By using web 2.0 technologies to create their digital stories they obviously gained a level of familiarity with web 2.0 tools and tried their hand a creating multimedia as well as using collaborative sytems to communicate between classrooms and countries.

I think they must have learned a lot from having real world interactions with students from different environments. I like to think that travel is one way of opening up a person's mind to new ideas and new ways of thinking, perhaps this online collaboration can have a similar result. I was even struck by the different accents and use of the English language amongst the different students.

The students used video, wikis, online research, youTube. I looked at the video on work flow software. Although the videos weren't too complete, given the difficulty of editing video and concisely making a report I think they were very successful. Along with the info in the wiki I think they were able to make a fairly good report through their collaboration.