What we're considering . . .

We have decided to use SMART amp as the primary way of having our students interact and get to know each other.

We will also use LAB activities.

Types of questions/problems we can pose:

• converting temperature - this will become a real application of that textbook problem of converting fahrenheit to celsius
• converting and understanding units for distance and weight
• finding the "best" way to get from Hawaii to Norway - this came up in our discussion one day about how we would get to the other's home. Let our students figure this one out.  What does "best" mean?
• What time is sunrise/sunset?  HI is close to the equator and Norway is close to the North Pole. Do our students understand what this means?
• speed limit signs - saw a sign in Calgary "110." What does this mean?

Our first exchange could be a practice between teachers - Getting to Know You in an amp ws. We could then have our students do something similar.  Include a map.

Lotta Ramqvist has really been helpful (via Messenger) to help us understand how we will group our students in the same workspace across different domains.  Here's my understanding of how we can put our students in groups on the same workspace:

1. Teacher A creates ws and puts her students in groups.
2. Save to shared folder.  Everything is in the shared folder in Drive.  We have a folders called
1. Planning
2. Active ws
3. Completed ws
3. Teacher B opens each group and adds her student(s) who will work in that ws to that group.

I need to try this to see how to add students to a group.  Have never done that before. 

There will be an amp update coming in Sept (?) that will make adding students to the groups much simpler.

My first realization about how far apart we live came in my messages to Lotta today.  

• I sent her a message at 11:17am, not really expecting an answer until much later.  But she replied almost immediately.  
• We continued until 11:52am (23:52 in Sweden).  We said "good night," and I continued working throughout the day. 
• I had another question at 6:45pm (6:45 in Sweden) and she replied almost immediately!

Either the lady does not sleep much or we are truly halfway around the world!  Social media is amazing.  We are corresponding in real-time for FREE over wi-fi.  Another way Kristin and I will stay in touch is via FREE phone calls in Messenger.