1. Brenda Kerr

3. Have you participated in collaborative activities in an online classroom?

4.  Relay Information Research findings, ideas, or suggestions  Entire class interactions Debate Topic Analyze Case Study Respond to Open-ended Question

5.  Discuss in small group  Reporter summarizes to class  Projects  Work area restricted to project group members  Share files and URLs (Use many tools)

6.  Student to Student  Peer – Review  Mentoring by more advanced class (cross curriculum)  Student to Instructor  Journaling / Reflections Internship / Student Teachers

7. Which online tools/applications could be used with collaborative activities you design for your classroom?

9.  Asynchronous Collaboration  Blogs  Discussion  Wiki  Synchronous Collaboration  Web Conferencing  Chat  Instant Messaging What Other Types of Tools Can You Name??

10.  Synchronous Collaboration  Web Conferencing Dimdim Elluminiate  Chat Course Management System (CMS) chat tool Third Party Chat Tools  Instant Messaging Google CMS Phone – Group messaging application

11.  Blogs  Owned by individual  Individual posts idea or composition Readers subscribe  Readers comment Owner can receive email notification

12.  Discussion Boards  Threaded Messages Students reply to original postings  View discussion by date  Organized by threads  Users need to reply

13.  Document collaboration  Version and audit tracking  Comment feature  Notification of changes  Plug-in components  Multiple users edit file

14.  Conversations can be disjointed  Synchronous  Archived  See only messages posted after entrance to room

15. Other tools??

16. www.pbworks.com

17.  Collaboration Features  Collaborative page editing  Document management and file sharing  History and audit trail  Invite others to collaborate  Automatic notifications by RSS and email.  Control user access level  Easily create classroom set of usernames and passwords

18.  Multimedia Features  Videos  Photo slideshows  PowerPoint presentations  Spreadsheets  Calendars  Chat Rooms  …and more  Example: http://amacy.pbworks.com/http://amacy.pbworks.com/

19. www.dimdim.com

20.  Web Conferencing  Allows for visual cues to be recognized through “live” talking head  Creates “all-in” collaborative conversation regarding current subject  Can be used as introduction to new materials or as review  Can be modified to allow for virtual “office hours”

21.  Web Conferencing  PowerPoint Presentations  Websites  White Board  Desktop viewing  Example: http://www.dimdim.comhttp://www.dimdim.com

23.  Brenda Kerr – bkerr@mtsu.edubkerr@mtsu.edu