FOS – Collaborating on a cartoon

I’ve had so many fun new learning experiences this week!

My first experience of FOS (Free, Open and Social learning), my first encounter with a Google plus community, my first twitter showers, and now my first blog post, online collaboration, and cartoon creation!

Sara Houston and I teamed up to create a response to the scenario for Day 4’s theme of Collaboration, and challenged ourselves with doing this in cartoon form…

We hooked up via Skype, brainstormed in a Google doc to decide what we wanted to say and how to portray it as a cartoon, and then used Pixton to animate our ideas.

Turns out that collaboration is a lot of fun (who’d have guessed?). Having Sara’s perspective on the benefits of collaboration for our students (and us) definitely broadened my understanding and strengthened my resolve to develop that side of my teaching. Talk about active learning! 🙂

Here’s my cartoon: View it on Pixton

And here is Sara’s: View it on Pixton