Distance collaborative performance of exercise in Greek Sign Language

Abstract

In the present article we describe our work, therefore the experience we gained by implementing distance collaborative activity into two groups of students who learn sign language. The collaborative technique that we used is called "Think-Pair-Share" and the cooperation was supported by Google+, which is a social network. The activity was applied in two separate groups of students at different levels, third and fourth level respectively. The students of each group were separated into groups of two, they worked together for the performance of an exercise via video-conference and they posted a video-reply on the community of Google+, which was created for the purposes of this activity. Then, each team rated the videos of the other teams by making comments on them. In the end, the professor posted his own video with a proper performance and made comments on the videos and the comments of all groups. Google+ platform supported the collaboration among members within the groups and between groups.