Collaborative learning is essentially people working
together to solve a problem, create a product, or derive
meaning from a body of material.
Tools that exist to support collaboration can:
1. Facilitate real-time and asynchronous text, voice, and video
communication.
2. Assist in basic project management activities.
3. Support co-creation by enabling groups to modify output in real-time
or asynchronously.
4. Facilitate consensus building through group discussions and polling.
5. Simplify and streamline resource management.
6. Enable local and remote presentation and archiving of completed
projects.
Presentation And Archiving
Resource Management
Consensus Building
Examples:
❑Virtual Meetings
❑Email
❑Instant Messaging
❑Screen Sharing
❑Blogs
❑Voice, Video, Web Conferencing
Co-creation
Many features of collaboration
tools are geared toward the
facilitation and management of
effective communication among team
members.
Project Management
Communication
Communication
Task Management
Time Tracking
Workflow Routing
Milestones
Calendaring
Presentation And Archiving
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Resource Management
Examples:
Consensus Building
Tools are geared toward
handling the logistical aspects of
planning, scheduling, workflow, and
task management.
Co-creation
Project Management
Communication
Project Management
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Concept Mapping
Wikis
Virtual Whiteboards
Real-Time Collaborative Editing
Presentation And Archiving
Examples:
Resource Management
Tools facilitate the most direct
interaction between team members
on the goals or desired outcomes of
the project.
Consensus Building
Co-creation
Project Management
Communication
Co-creation and Ideation
Examples:
❑ Polling
❑ Question Management
❑ Process Archiving
Presentation And Archiving
Tools help participants narrow
and refine the proposed solutions.
Resource Management
Consensus Building
Co-creation
Project Management
Communication
Consensus-building
Tools help address common
issues, like having access to a shared
storage space for project files, and
keeping up with multiple versions of
the same document.
Examples:
❑ File Storage
❑ Search
❑ Database Management
❑ Version Tracking
❑ Access Management
❑ Social Bookmarking
❑ Commenting
❑ Tagging
Presentation And Archiving
Resource Management
Consensus Building
Co-creation
Project Management
Communication
Resource management
Presentation And Archiving
Resource Management
Consensus Building
Co-creation
Project Management
Communication
Presentation & Archiving
These tools allow the project
team to present outcomes to the
instructor, to a project client, or to the
general public.
Examples:
❑ Webinars
Google Hangouts
Google Hangouts allows
conversations between two or
more users. The service can be
accessed online through the
Gmail or Google+ websites, or
through mobile apps available for
Android and iOS.
Google Drive
Google Drive is a cloudbased storage solution that
allows you to save files online
and access them anywhere from
any smartphone, tablet, or
computer.
Bubbl.us
Bubbl.us is an easy-to-use,
online brainstorming software.
With Bubbl.us you can create
colorful mind maps and share
them with others.
Wikispaces
Designed specifically for use in
the classroom, wikispaces is a social
writing platform that also acts as a
classroom management tool by
keeping teacher and students
organized and on task. Not only does
this site provide easy to use
templates, it's free and also has a
variety of assessment tools.
MindMeister
MindMeister is an online
mind mapping application that
allows its users to visualize, share
and present their thoughts via
the cloud.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy is an American
non-profit educational organization
created in 2008 by Sal Khan, with the
goal of creating a set of online tools
that help educate students. The
organization produces short lessons in
the form of videos. Its website also
includes supplementary practice
exercises and materials for educators.
Edmodo
Edmodo is an educational
technology company offering a
communication, collaboration, and
coaching platform to K-12 schools and
teachers. The Edmodo network
enables teachers to share content,
distribute quizzes, assignments, and
manage
communication
with
students, colleagues, and parents.
G-Suite
G Suite for Education is an ecology
of digital tools from Google designed to
host and distribute digital documents,
communication, and collaboration through
cloud-based technology.
G Suite is just that: a suite of
Google tools and features that your school
can use. It includes Google Classroom as
well as other core services, including
Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, Forms,
Slides, Hangouts, and more. Additional
services include products like Chrome and
YouTube.
Kahoot!
Kahoot! is a game-based
learning platform,[3] used as
educational
technology
in
schools and other educational
institutions. Its learning games,
"kahoots", are user-generated
multiple-choice quizzes that can
be accessed via a web browser or
the Kahoot app.
Flipgrid
Flipgrid
elevates
text-based
discussion forums with teacher and student
constructed videos. Teachers and students
can create a grid about a specific topic and
encourage peers and even people from
around the world to record a short video
about the topic!
At its most basic, Flipgrid is a video
tool that allows teachers to post "Topics"
that are essentially videos with some
accompanying text. This is then shared with
students, who can be prompted to respond.