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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