In this course you will learn about a wide variety of Web 2.0 tools to use in your teaching and learning. Web 2.0 tools provide innovative ways to communicate, present content, and collaborate with others in creative ways. Web 2.0 tools are easy to learn, use, and implement, and many are free. This course will not only introduce you to popular Web 2.0 tools like Edmodo, Twitter, Voicethread, and Skype in K-16 instruction, but you will also learn how to effectively integrate these technologies into your classroom practices and create engaging student activities.
Collaboration Tools
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Powerful Tools for Teaching and Learning: Web 2.0 Tools
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Bernard R RobinAssociate Professor
Curriculum and Instruction
Sara G. McNeilAssociate Professor
Curriculum and Instruction
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Welcome to 21st Century Skills Collaboration Tools.
Think back to the animation video about the construction project in
the last module.
The focus was on understanding the details of the construction problem
before picking a construction tool.
We're going to keep that same idea as we try to understand the type and
nature of problems related to collaboration.
We have divided web 2.0 tools into eight categories.
You can see those categories in this figure.
In this module we'll focus on collaboration.
So if you've identified your instructional task or
issue as one related to collaboration.
Then the next step is to understand the nature of the collaboration problem.
Working in diverse teams and understanding flexibility and
responsibility as a team member is an asset in real-life work.
Collaboration continuum shown here
is a way to understand the nature of a collaboration task.
The continuum shows three forms of collaborative task,
project management, co-creation and resource management.
This continuum is also a way to group and
arrange your Web 2.0 collaboration tools.
But remember, this is just one way you can group and arrange Web 2.0
collaboration tools for yourself in other ways based on your skills and interest.
What do you think is the nature of the collaboration issue
that you're having in your classroom?
Let's look at some examples on this continuum.
One of the areas we have identified is project management,
designing plans creating calendars, managing schedules, and
dealing with workflow for a group project, are important parts of project management.
Many teachers use Assign-A-Day, a Web 2.0 calendar tool
to create a class calendar that can be shared with students and their parents.
In order to keep them notified about latest assignments and due dates.
Other Web 2.0 Tools like Doodle
provide an easy way to set up group meetings dynamically.
Todoist lets you manage task and
then collaborate on setting and working on those tasks.
These are examples of Web 2.0 tools that can help you manage your project and
streamline your work.
Collaboration is also about discussing new thoughts and brainstorming ideas together.
For example, teachers might encourage their students to develop concepts for
a group assignment using the Web 2.0 Tool Concept Board.
Other Web 2.0 tools, like Google Drive,
allow realtime collaborative editing on documents, presentations and spreadsheets.
Web 2.0 tools like Mindomo allow groups to brainstorm ideas.
These Web 2.0 tools focus on co-creation,
collaborating to create, edit and develop ideas.
One of the critical parts of collaboration is for group members to be able
to access communal storage space in order to share new resources and
manage different contributions of group members.
For example, a teacher might ask students working on a group project
to share the links to the various resources they found on the web and
use a social bookmarking Web 2.0 tool called Symbaloo.
Students and the teacher are all able to see and access the final set of resources.
Other ways to share and manage resources are through a Web 2.0 tool called Dropbox.
Where various types of files and media can be stored
as well as shared with a group of people.
Web 2.0 tools like Wiki Dot allow users to create real
time editing space for both text and multimedia files.
You might have already noticed that a few of these collaboration tools
could also be called communication tools.
Many of the tools that you will explore in this course, and later,
on your own, can be categorized under different categories and
used for more than one type of instructional issue.
Conversely, you may find that you will use more than one
Web 2.0 tool to accomplish an instructional task.
However, you will find that most Web 2.0 tools have a primary function and
perhaps several secondary functions.
Apart from multiple features in a tool, we already know that there
are hundreds of Web 2.0 collaboration tools with more appearing every day.
I want to reiterate that it's crucial to understand the type and
nature of an instructional issue or
task in order to be able to choose a specific tool with just
the right features that can help solve the instructional issue that you're having.
Let's look at a short example.
Let's imagine that you're a history teacher and
you want your students to collect pictures of important historical
places as part of their World History class.
Your task is to set up an online repository where
students can upload pictures in folders organized by country.
Then all the students can access the site
to use the collected pictures in their history projects throughout the year.
Since you want the students to manage and share files, it's a collaboration task.
The next step is to find out more about the nature of the problem.
You want all of your students to upload and
organize the historical pictures by country.
And store them in a location
that is readily accessible to all the other students to use.
You also want a large enough space to store the pictures.
In other words, the problem is managing and sharing resources.
Now that you've figured out the nature of the collaboration issue, you need
to find a Web 2.0 collaboration tool that supports the management of resources and
has features that closely match the task that you want your students to do.
Google Drive is a great online storage service from Google.
It allows users to store and organize various types of documents and
multimedia files and gives users plenty of space in a free account.
You can also share the files and folders as links.
OneDrive is another great online storage service from Microsoft that
allows users to store and organize various types of documents and multimedia files.
And it also gives you sort of plenty of space and a free account.
You can also share the files and folders as lengths.
Voila.
Both these Web 2.0 tools match the criteria for
the solution you're looking for and could solve the instructional problem presented.
So we see yet again that closely matching the type and
nature of the instructional problem or task with the features of the Web 2.0 tool
can help us in accomplishing the task effectively and efficiently.
I hope this short presentation gave you some
ideas about Web 2.0 collaboration tools.
Now let's learn how you can identify and
choose a Web 2.0 tool for one of the teaching scenarios.
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