Revising my GAME plan

Out of this week's learning resources, I was very excited to learn about the online collaboration tools and activities. The resources highlighted several creative ways to engage students through online collaboration. Throughout the presentations there were many examples of how both the required content materials and the technological standards can be clearly met through careful integration of both. In addition, many cognitive and socio-cultural benefits were identified as well. My new goal is to use online collaboration tools to link my classroom to a classroom in my sister island of Barbuda, as we work on our natural disaster project. Two of the main challenges that will be experienced are: firstly, the training of the students and teachers to use the technologies, and secondly to coordinating of the times when the two classes can gain access to their computer labs. The question that now arise is, can collaboration activities be successfully executed if both classrooms cannot connect with each other at the same time?