Student+Collaboration


 * Does Collaborative Learning Work? **

Ten Thousand Cents is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Using a custom drawing tool, thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task. Workers were paid one cent each via Amazon's Mechanical Turk distributed labor tool. The work is presented as a video piece with all 10,000 parts being drawn simultaneously. The project explores the circumstances we live in, a new and uncharted combination of digital labor markets, "crowdsourcing," "virtual economies," and digital reproduction. Friend Wheel is an app which shows the inter-relationships between all of your Facebook contacts . The wheel illustrates - with data points (people) and chords (relationships) - the collaboration potential that a social network provides.


 * Examples of Learning Networks**

Janna Walsh's Space Educator's PLN Classroom 2.0 edtechtalk.com K12 Online Conference Delicious Diigo


 * Technology to Support Collaboration**

Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online.

MyWebspiration an online visual thinking, learning and collaboration tool for students, teachers, and thinkers everywhere. Brainstorm ideas, visualize concepts, organize information and collaborate with others anytime, anywhere. With Webspiration, assignments and work are always available, automatically saved, and stored online. Collaboration and peer review are easy. Everyone you invite creates, edits and comments on the same document. Whether working individually or with a group, Webspiration is the perfect tool for visual thinking, writing, studying and learning.

Dimdim allows you to host an online meeting/webinar. Give presentation, share web pages, whiteboards, voice, and video. Free for small groups.

Dipity is a free digital timeline website. Our mission is to organize the web's content by date and time. Users can create, share, embed and collaborate on interactive, visually engaging timelines that integrate video, audio, images, text, links, social media, location and timestamps.

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">Edublog is a good blog to use with students.

<span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">Edistorm takes the metaphor of sticky notes on a boardroom wall and brings it online allowing anyone - anywhere to brainstorm with only a web browser. Each user picks their favorite ideas and Edistorm brings the best ones forward.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ePals is a Global Community of collaborative learners, teachers, and academic experts in 200 countries and territories. ePals provides Connectionsto students, classes, and school districts worldwide that are safe and secure. ePals is the safe and protected solution for linking classes, schools, and school districts globally or within district.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lino it is a free sticky & canvas service that requires nothing but a Web browser.

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">TitanPad and GoogleDocs are examples of collaborative writing-note taking.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">WallWisher is an online notice boardmaker. Collaborate with colleagues/students. Post comments, images, announcements, etc.

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> WikiSpaces provides teachers with free upgraded access to the wiki space.