12 Days of Collaboration

To celebrate the 12 Days of Christmas, I will be writing an article a day through the 25th. These posts will be on the theme of collaboration looking at various ways to get students and teacher to work together as part of a bigger project. This "12 Days of Collaboration" project will explore issues with collaborative projects, tools for collaboration, and frameworks that you can use with your own projects. While I have not been so clever as to link each topic with the series number (e.g. two turtle doves), I hope you will find the content interesting and perhaps even useful.

1. Delicious Online Research
2. Brainstorming with Your Writeboard
3. YackPack Your Point of View - articulating your point of view using spoken work rather than written word
4. Wiki Review Sheets
5. Problems with Collaboration
6. Google Docs for Creative Writing
7. Google Docs and Wikis for Science Lab Write Ups (private during dev - teacher ok - and then published to wiki so that all labs are maintained through out the year and students can review other students' results providing comments or post-scripts on their writeups)
8. Zoho Show for Digital Storyboarding - collaboratively create a storyboard - one presentation "slide" = one storyboard cell.
9. Google and Yahoo Groups where teachers and/or students list questions and students respond. Better than blogs in that students can respond directly to a response (thredded discussion).
10. Blogging Your Class - e.g. Darren K's ap calc
11. Chat by the Campfire [http://www.campfirenow.com] for online review sessions - teachers and students chat answering questions for a test - can share images = good for math? - can review chat transcripts to see participation = give students credit for helping other students.
12. Assessing the Process with RSS = tool for assessing process