Online Collaboration

Online

CollaborationMILI 2009

LeAnn Suchy, Metronetleann@metronet.lib.mn.us

Online collaboration?

Web-based software designed to help people collaborate on a common task

Online collaboration can make collaboration easier across rooms, buildings, states, countries

Collaboration can occur on documents, presentations, spreadsheets, etc.

Nings

Nings are online collaboration tools

You’re part of our Ning so you know a little bit of what a Ning can do

Users can blog, chat, ask forum questions of each other, and, depending upon the level of access, collaborate on a much bigger level

MILI Ning

Ning for conferences

Wikis

Wikis are collaboration tools

You’ve seen a wiki – our MILI Wiki We do not have you collaborate in it, but we

could

Wikis have been used in classes, at conferences, for business purposes, etc.

MILI Wiki

Wiki for conferences

Moodle

Moodle is an online collaboration tool

Students can blog, respond to forum questions, upload documents, etc.

We’ll explore Moodle in-person next week

Before we move on…

Questions so far??

Google Docs

Create and collaborate on documents, spreadsheets, and presentations

Can also create Forms, which are different kinds of questions you can send to people, and when answers come back they’re in spreadsheet form

Can create from new in Docs or upload existing items

Accessible anywhere

Month 2 in MILI Wiki

Google Docs for Educators

Google Docs: The Basics

Google Docs: Tips & Tricks

Google Classroom Activities

Sign up for Google Docs

We want you to sign up for Google Docs

If you created a Google Docs account in the past for Google Reader or Gmail you can use that same account

After the webinar go to Google Docs and log in

Google Docs tips – create/upload

Google Docs tips - items

Google Docs tips - tools

Google Docs tips - collaborate

Google Docs tips - invite

Google Docs tips – share link

Edit our Google Doc

Between now and our meeting

We want you to use Google Docs to: Beat the Bard – edit our Hamlet Google Doc Upload a document into Google Docs and check

out some of the differences Upload or create a document and invite others to

collaborate on the document with you If you’ve used Google Docs in the past, play

around with something you haven’t done there, like Presentations, Forms, or Spreadsheets

Between now and our meeting Make sure to blog

For blog prompts, look under Month 2 in the Wiki and use some of the Independent Learning Instructions to get ideas about what to blog

Questions?

Ask now or you can always contact me:

leann@metronet.lib.mn.us or 651-646-0475