by Ozge Karaoglu
It is easy to collaborate with your colleagues around you. What about other people in your PLN? Can you collaborate with 50, 100, 1000 people? “Collaborate”, “Collaborative”, “Collaboration” were the most frequent words I heard last year and I believe it will be more important and popular in this new decade. Here is my first 20 web tools to enhance collaboration among us!
Check out the list, CLICK HERE
by Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano of Langwitchs blog.
At this moment (12:40 pm Sunday) Silvia’s post has has 91 tweets. I am sure more by the time you read the story.
All of our classroom teachers are working hard on their classroom blogs. They are using the blog as a platform to allow parents to have a peek into the classroom. It is a communication tool between school and home. It has been a steep learning curve for some to write, post, embed and upload in this new media until it is becoming a daily routine.
I am proud of how our classroom teachers are continuing to work hard and move forward in the blogging process.
A few weeks ago, our second graders created a video tutorial to teach their parents how to navigate their classroom blog. They are excited and self-motivated to check their classroom blog from home to see if their teachers posted something new. Both teachers and students are now ready to take the next step with the ultimate goal of making a global learning community out of their blog. These 7 & 8 year olds are ready to start commenting!
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The Open High School of Utah encourages its teachers to search out and share curriculum resources from various sources. In that spirit, Todd Finley, associate professor of English education, researched free curriculum repositories designed specifically for high-school English teachers. He recommends several sites in this blog post, including:
- the Common Core Curriculum Map,
- the Virtual Library of Instruction and
- PBS.org
- Edutopia.org/Todd Finley’s blog
Project lets K-12 students archive websites
A nationwide project sponsored by the Internet Archive and the Library of Congress has students creating virtual time capsules of primary-source websites and digital content that reflects their lives and interests. The K-12 Web Archiving Program is aimed at teaching students collaborative, problem-solving and critical-thinking skills as they choose sources and sites to include.
Read full Story, CLICK HERE eSchool News
Casual Collaboration.
Mash your ideas and media together with friends in a dynamic whiteboard wiki. Using photos, videos, and other web content you can instantly create brainstorms, presentations, scrapbooks, and enjoy an interactive chat with more than 50 friends.
“Nota is a unique, cutting-edge collaborative web platform that allows users to create, share and collaborate on presentations and virtually any other form of online material. Using Nota’s proprietary toolset, users can instantly integrate text, video, maps, clip art, photos from web album or on the local computer, or license-free images from Flickr, and material from an ever-expanding array of sources. Users can then instantly embed their work in Facebook or blogs, and can share and collaborate with friends.”
