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Assignment Four: Collaborative And Communication Tool Charts
Jessica Roberts
Kevin Sleeper
Rosheka Washington
Grand Canyon University
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URL
With this tool, users can create
simple web pages groups can edit
together.
This free wiki makes it
easy to invite members
and share files, links and
widgets.
Challenges
With this product, all built-in
communication tends to be
delayed. This tool uses works
a WYSIWYG text editor, so
when transferring typed
information from the wiki to
a desktop text editor, the text
doesn't hold its format.
Applicability & Effectiveness Evaluation: This would be great for group projects. It is quite easy to set up a wiki, invite members and then
access to information, so it would effective to use as a common place for compiling project information. The only possible difficulty would
be converting the WYSIWYG text to a Word or Pages document.
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vyew.com
With this collaborative tool users
This tool has options for
Even though this tool
Vyew
can give presentations, host
VOIP, webcam video, free supports many file types,
webinars, or conduct team
tele-conferencing, text
there are a few that cannot be
meetings. Upload documents,
chat and voice notes.
used. This tool doesn’t allow
images and other media.
Members can create and
for multiple users to
upload course content for simultaneously edit
real-time and anytime
documents either.
collaborative learning
experiences.
Applicability & Effectiveness Evaluation: This would be a very effective tool to use for either conducting a class or working on group
projects because it allows both real-time communication and sharing of information. However, group members would have to edit
documents one at a time.
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crocodoc.com
Groups can mark up, fill out, and
Group members can draw Crocodoc doesn't have a chat
Crocodoc
collaborate on PDFs, Word
lines, arrow, boxes and
option or instant messaging
documents, PowerPoint slides, web circles while editing as
option. Some file types are
pages, images and more.
well as leave notations to
not supported.
explain their changes. The
Wikispaces
wikispaces.com
Collaborative Tools Chart
Description
Benefits
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service is free, secure and
compatible with most
major operating systems
Applicability & Effectiveness Evaluation: This tool would be excellent for groups of users who only need to share and edit documents.
However, it would be effective only if the students had no need for real-time online communication while sharing documents. This is also
one of the few document sharing tools (at least that this group found) that includes power point and web page editing options.
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inetword.com
A group can create any document
This collaborative tool
Only one person can edit at
iNetWord
using point-level formatting,
works just like a desktop
one time. INedWord doesn't
indents, margins, backgrounds,
editor and even with
have a reliable built-in
borders, choice of bullets,
several people working on method for communication
numbering, spell check, pictures,
the same document, users between group members.
and more. Group members on
can undo changes with
There are also a lot of tools
different computers and different
one click. The document
and tool bars. While this
locations can share folders,
is never overwritten.
offers lots of options, it
documents, and pictures. Changes
might be difficult for users to
to document are highlighted.
find the right editing function
quickly.
Applicability & Effectiveness Evaluation: iNetWord would be excellent for groups who need to edit a project simultaneously without the
risk of losing information. Though this would be applicable to collaboration projects, this tool would only be ideal if students had another
way to communicate.
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skype.com
Talk to anyone face to face
Great tool to communicate Users can only talk and share
Skype
anywhere
ideas and get feedback. If what the camera and
coupled with an online
microphone can pick up. No
document collaborative
document editing is possible.
tool the options and ideas
are exponential
Applicability & Effectiveness Evaluation: Skype offers teleconferencing between collaborators to allow verbal discussions of project
updates. Skype plus a text based collaboration tool would be a great combination.
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huddle.com
Huddle offers free file storage,
It allows users to share
The free version is limited to
Huddle
project management, and
files with team members
one user and does not keep
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collaboration tools.
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and also view and edit
files on mobile devices.
track of document versions.
Multiple team members need
to invest in the paid version.
Applicability & Effectiveness Evaluation: Huddle is useful for keeping track of different versions of documents and allows viewers to
compare all previous versions. It is best suited for large projects and is a bit of overkill for school classrooms.
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lucidchart.com
This is a multi-user chart interface
This is a great tool for
This tool is only free for up
LucidChart
that allows everyone to work on a
real-time, multi user,
to 3 collaborators and 5MB
document at the same time.
collaborative planning and storage space. If more is
Collaborators get any saved
charting experiences.
needed, then the group must
changes immediately. It provides
pay for the service.
the ability to share flow charts as a
LucidChart mainly supports
web page, PDF, or image. This tool
image based documents (not
can be accessed anywhere.
word processed).
Applicability & Effectiveness Evaluation: LucidChart would be excellent for small (groups of three or less) collaborative brainstorming
activities. Though this tool is great for imaged based documents, this would not be the program to use if users needed to edit a text document.
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RCampus can be used to
RCampus
www.rcampus.co RCampus is a comprehensive
Education Management System.
teach or learn at multiple
m
You can do all your school-related
campuses. Students have
work from building personal and
acess to tutors. You can
group websites to managing your
also exchange books with
courses, eportfolios, academic
other members.
communities, and much more.
Applicability & Effectiveness Evaluation: This is a free tool where you can build a student, teacher, or group website to do collaborative
work. Excellent for classrooms of any size.
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On start menu with Windows Meeting Space gives you
Windows meeting
Must be using Windows
Windows
Windows Vista
the ability to share documents,
space allows multiple Vista
Meeting
operating system
programs, or your desktop with
participants to access
Space
other people whose computers are
and work on the
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running Windows Vista.
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same document.
You can share your
desktop or any
program with other
meeting participants.
You and other
meeting participants
can distribute and coedit documents.
You can pass notes to
other participants.
You can connect to a
network projector to
give a presentation
Applicability & Effectiveness Evaluation: Anyone who has Windows Vista can access and use Windows Meeting Space. Great tool for
sharing and editing material by more than one person simultaneously.
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www.projectspace A powerful and simple workspace
This tool looks like it
The tool is not free and
s.com
and extranet tool to help
would be an extremely
although has a 30day free
spaces
workgroups, committees, partners,
functional tool that allows trial has a fee associated with
and others easily connect, share and average techno users to
its use. Might be too big of a
collaborate.
create, share,
tool for the average
communicate, search in a
classroom user.
collaborative
environment.
Applicability & Effectiveness Evaluation: The user interface is easy to use and is therefore accepted by users and leads to greater
productivity.
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Free web based
Writeboard is convenient for
application that allows
casual users who need a
collaboration on copy,
simple easy to use tool to use
proposals, memos,
for collaboration with
projects, group papers.
multiple contributors. For
Simply enter someone’s
more professional and
email address and they’ll
habitual users greater
get an invitation with a
flexibility and features will
link to view and edit the
be needed. There are no
writeboard. Get updates
formatting tools, no spell
via RSS for fast updates
check, no tables, etc..
on revisions to
collaborative work.
Access anywhere and a
lockout mechanism keeps
multiple collaborators
from editing over each
other’s work.
Applicability & Effectiveness Evaluation: This is a free tool that is very useful and user friendly. It is useful for group projects that are text
based. It can be used for collaborative group writing projects.
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Applicability & Effectiveness Evaluation:
WriteBoard
www.writeboard.c
om
Writeboards are sharable, webbased text documents that let you
save every edit, roll back to any
version, and easily compare
changes.
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Communication Tools
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Name
Wetoku
URL
wetoku.com
Description
Users can conduct
interviews, hold
conferences, record the
meetings, and embed the
video right away. Dual
frames mean that users can
record both people at the
same time.
Benefits
Wetoku allows users to
record two frames
simultaneously. Group
members can share and
broadcast video, audio files
and links.
Challenges
Only two people can be
recorded in one meeting. This
tool does not allow for
document editing.
Applicability & Effectiveness Evaluation: This would be a good tool for interaction and collaboration between students of different
schools. Students would only be able to conference, record and share via video or audio. But this would be excellent for students or teachers
to share educational videos… or even create and broadcast their own videos to others.
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edmodo.com
Edmodo provides students, Edmodo posts can even be
Edmodo does not yet provide
Edmodo
teachers and administrators viewed from portable
instant messaging, chat or
with a free and secure way devices such as iPhone and
virtual meeting features at this
to communicate through a
Blackberry. Edmodo also
time. Therefore, all
private microblogging
contains special institutional correspondence is slightly
platform. Users can post
features that can be accessed delayed.
classroom materials, share by school administrators at
links and videos, and
absolutely no cost.
access homework, grades
and school notices on an
advanced social learning
network.
Applicability & Effectiveness Evaluation: This would be an excellent online bulletin board for a classroom. With students being able to
access files and post messages from their portable devices, it makes Edmodo an ideal tool for keeping the class members up-to-date with
classroom news and events, even when they are away from the school.
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wiziq.com
This is where users can
This online classroom allows There are no collaborative
WiZiQ
join in or host their own
for virtually an unlimited
features with this product and
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class. It has features like an
interactive whiteboard and
text chat. Users can also
upload presentations, video
files, audio files, and create
tests/quizes.
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number of attendees
all correspondence must be
(students) as well as easy
through text chat or e-mail.
communication between
Only three 3 classes with a
teacher and students. An
combined 10 GB storage space
instructor can easy create and can be used for free. More
share online tutorials and
features require paid
other supplemental
membership with WiZiQ.
instructional materials.
Educators can create up to
three (3) classes for free.
Applicability & Effectiveness Evaluation: This product can be use for distance learning needs. It is basically an online classroom with
virtually unlimited space for learners. So partnering teachers could use this tool to teach their students the same lessons. This tool does not
have any collaborative editing tool and the correspondence is limited to text chat and e-mail. So it would not be effective for collaborative
projects.
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This is a free threeThere are no downloads
The interactive whiteboard
Elluminate
attendee room. There is an required for these free
feature can only be used one
Interactive whiteboard
features. Interactions can be
person at a time. Only a
where collaboration can
done in real-time from
limited number of file types
take place. Users can
anywhere.
are supported with this
upload presentations,
product.
video, audio and text chat.
Applicability & Effectiveness Evaluation: Elluminate would be great for small group to communicate and plan projects. Interaction can
be done in real-time but only one person can use the interactive whiteboard feature at a time. This probably wouldn’t make a very good
collaborative tool if students needed to edit documents. In Elluminate, the collaboration is limited to sharing and discussing.
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meetsee.com
With this tool, users can
It allows users to connect
There are some downloads
Meetsee
personalize their own
and effectively communicate necessary for this tool. Only
virtual office, avatar and
with otherwise far removed
limited features offered in the
profile. There are options
group members or
free version. More advanced
for sharing files,
coworkers.
features require payment.
presentations and hosting a
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virtual meeting via
webcam.
Applicability & Effectiveness Evaluation: This would be good tool for creating an online version of the classroom/office space. This is
probably more advanced and user friendly than Edmodo, though it was not specifically designed for the classroom. This tool would allow
students and teachers to share files, presentations and have meeting via webcam. (It might also be a good way for parents who otherwise
have hectic schedules, to correspond with the teacher.
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blogger.com
Blogger is a free web site
Blogger allows users to write A great tool to increase
Blogger
where students can write
their diary and allow readers
writing, one must be careful to
anything they want on an
to comment on a post-byongoing basis. It was
post basis. Unwanted
establish content guides and
started in 1999 and is used comments can be deleted.
rules for commenting as well
by many individuals from
Users can create their own
all walks of life.
profile, there are templates to as rubrics for grading the logs.
Students/schools/classroom
personalize their site with
custom colors/fonts, and drag without
and drop page elements.
Users can post photos and
access the site from a mobile
phone.
Applicability & Effectiveness Evaluation: This is a great site for the beginnings of the writing process. Blogger does not have the
document revision capabilities of other wiki like collaboration tools. It is good for connecting and sharing ideas prior to the writing
process.
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vanderbilt.edu/virtua Interactive
The interactive conference
Each participating site must
Vanderbilt
Videoconferencing in a
allows students to ask
have a CODEC unit capable of
Virtual School lschool/
tool that can be used in
questions of presenters who
transmitting compressed
which one party is
are experts in their field of
video/audio over IP (Internet
connected via sound and
study. Users can also setup
Protocol). The first few
video to another party. In
an interactive video
instances of usage can be
this environment the user
conference with another
awkward. After teachers are
can see and interact with
class or group and
comfortable with the technical
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the other party. The
Vanderbilt Virtual School
has a series of conferences
that cover topics like Black
History, the Holocaust, and
hot topics.
collaborate on projects ect..
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issues, finding time to plan -locating content and other IVC
partners, e-mail
communications, sometimes
forms to fill out, and so on -- is
the greatest challenge. A
common problem is scheduling
the IVC event. Some content
providers have set times that
might not fit ther class
schedule, and time zones must
be considered
Applicability & Effectiveness Evaluation: Innovative tool for students to interact with leading specialists in their field. It is not a
productivity tool; it is video conferencing with experts.
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chatzy.com
This site provides a free
The site can be password
Users cannot instant message.
Chatzy
platform for hosting a
protected to allow only those
private chat area
approved members. Users
can chat on the site for free.
Invite via email or with
password protection post
web address.
Applicability & Effectiveness Evaluation: Good site to discuss ideas, share experiences, and post gathered information. Not a good site for
document sharing. Good way to begin the collaborative writing process.
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todaysmeet.com
Allows for real-time
It provides an opportunity for Could be difficult to monitor,
Todaysmeet
networking with others
a running conversation, to
allow disinterested students to
online during a
explore ideas and concepts
be way off topic.
presentation, utilizing the with others in a quiet
backchannel
manner. It keeps users
communication,
engaged and they get to read
everything going on in the what others are thinking.
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room that isn't coming
from the presenter.
Applicability & Effectiveness Evaluation: If used appropriately by users it is a great tool to increase understanding and the incorporation of
exploration of ideas while someone is talking. In real time in a private room students can ask questions without stopping the flow of
information.
Applicability & Effectiveness Evaluation:
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accessdl.state.al.us
ACCESS is a distanceProvides classroom courses Schools need to have funds to
learning plan. The goal of
and teachers via
purchase the equipment used
ACCESS is to create equity technology. One ACCESS for video-conferencing
through additional
hub reaches several
education offerings for all
students simultaneously all
Alabama public high school over Alabama
students
Applicability & Effectiveness Evaluation: A good tool for creating an online classroom where students across the state can communicate
with each other as if in the same physical classroom
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moodle.org
Moodle is an Open Source
Schools can use it as
To work, it needs to be
Course Management
their platform to
installed on a web server,
System (CMS), also known
conduct fully online
either on one of your own
as a Learning Management
courses, while some
computers or one at a web
System (LMS) or a Virtual
use it simply to
hosting company.
Learning Environment
augment face-to-face
(VLE). It has become very
courses. Teachers can
popular among educators
have students take
around the world as a tool
graded quizzes or tests
for creating online dynamic
on their moodle page.
web sites for their students.
Teachers and students
can communicate with
each other through a
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discussion forum.
Applicability & Effectiveness Evaluation: Moodle is easy web-based and easy to access. Great for students who are absent and need
lesson material.
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