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3 Student Collaboration Tools

Published on Nov 27, 2015

Collaboration tools

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Collaboration Tools

Ways for students to safely research, work and create together
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Why do we need to encourage collaboration?

  • Group work is part of most college and workplace experiences
  • Building on one another's strengths and ideas can create a stronger project and create a broader base of knowledge
  • This is part of being a 21st-century learner and is embedded in several learning standards
The need for student collaboration is identified in Common Core State Standards (CCSS), American Association of School Librarian Learning Standards (AASL LS), and the Information Fluency Continuum (IFC).

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1hr2pf26pvdh8me/Collaboration%20standards.pdf?dl=...
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Why use digital collaboration tools?

  • Students don't always have time to complete work together in person
  • Students today are wired- cell phones, tablets, and computers are ominpresent
  • Digital platforms allow for a dynamic approach to sharing of documents, group discussions, and creation and presentation of knowledge
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Google Drive

  • Allows partners or small groups to work together in real time or asynchronously on documents
  • Easily shared with the teacher
  • Individual contributions can be monitored
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Wikispace Classrooms

  • Allows for class-wide particpation
  • Individual contributions can be monitored by a teacher
  • Can be used for multiple classroom projects or portions of a project
  • Provides both a workspace and presentation space
Examples of project-specific classroom wikispaces:

http://gowest.wikispaces.com/

https://constcon2010.wikispaces.com/home


Another option is Collaborize Classrooms:

http://www.collaborizeclassroom.com/

This is largely a tool that can be used for discussion or debate, but doesn't necessarily offer a platform for student work

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ThingLink

  • Platform for creating interactive images
  • Additional images, video, audio, webpages, and documents can all be linked to the main image to create a multifaceted product
  • The main image can be shared and multiple users can contribute
To get started visit

https://www.thinglink.com/

An example of a class-wide project using multiple ThingLink creations from the Propel McKeesport Charter School:

http://propelmck8thinglink.weebly.com/

For more ideas on how students can teachers can use ThingLink, visit the ongoing GoogleDoc 73+ Interesting Ways* to Use
ThingLink in the Classroom

http://www.web2teachingtools.com/support-files/thinglink_73pluswaystousethi...

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"With great power comes great responsibility"

  • Digital collaboration is great, but students need to understand aspects of digital citizenship and internet safety that go with it.
  • Students need to learn how to properly behave to both protect themselves and respect others on the the internet.
Quotation is from the 2002 film, Spider-Man.

For resources on digital citizenship and internet safety visit the following Edutopia article:

Digital Citizenship: Resource Roundup. (2014, October 20). Retrieved March 31, 2015, from http://www.edutopia.org/article/digital-citizenship-resources



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"With great power comes great responsibility"

  • Some issues include: cyber-bullying, awareness of digital footprints, online etiquette and respect for other's work.


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