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This is my planning for a 15 minute presentation on using technology for collaboration in the classroom
So get collaborating already!
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Mark Clarkson, Teacher of ICT
Collaboration in Education
Practical Ideas - Anecdotal Experience
Straight Into It
Two favourite, but different tools:
Wikis
Etherpad (& Twiddla)
Anatomy of a Wiki
A simple website that anyone can edit
Can embed a variety of content
Example: Wikipedia
Useful for...
Building up a bank of knowledge
Creating an online ‘Text Book’
‘Structured information’ (@NeilAdam)
More examples
Some ideas...
Knowledge based research
Skills based tutorials
Double-edged learning
Learn by researching / writing
Learn by reviewing / peer assessment
Problems
Requires a log-in
One - at - a - time editing
Works best with a range of topics
Not suited to
SIMULTANEOUS collaboration
There must be another way!
“The ugliest and most useful group productivity app we’ve seen”
- Techcrunch
Etherpad?
Text based SIMULTANEOUS collaboration
No login, no need to save
Live typing & collaboration
Simple, saved revisions
‘Chat’ window for use as a backchannel
Excellent for...
QUICK collaboration
Thoughts and ideas
Informal collaboration
Drawbacks
No login! Anonymity!
Maximum 8 connected users
Risk of inappropriate use (see point 1)
Risk of deletion/malicious editing
Some examples
Put some ‘Wouldn’t It Be Great’ work here...
Additional Tools
Google Docs - share and work on documents, spreadsheets & presentations
Twiddla and Skrbl - graphical tools similar to Etherpad
VoiceThread - Collaborative discussion as text, audio and/or video
Thoughts
This slide is not part of the presentation but a place for some thoughts
Not discussed the importance of WHEN to collaborate, when NOT to, communication skills, importance of the aim over the tool, examples of Twiddla, GDocs et al
How to present - Keynote, Prezi, Slideshare...
Have lots of e.g.s for Wikis and E’pads to include at end