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Collaborize Classroom is an online education platform allowing students and teachers to participate in a collaborative learning environment. It is designed to extend classroom instruction by engaging students in online activities, assignments, and discussion.

great list of tools to use for collaboration

This site challenges you to explore, question, invent, and collaborate to make your own discoveries. Adult inventors use skills that children develop through their play, and this site offers four activities to foster these skills. Cloud Dreamer encourages make believe and visual thinking; Puzzle Blocks supports puzzle play and problem solving; Tinker Ball encourages exploration and tinkering; and Word Play focuses on social play and collaboration.

Meaningful Collaboration in the Digital Classroom - google presentation

The Student News Action Network was created, and is maintained, by students and teachers at Washington International School in collaboration with TakingITGlobal and bureau schools worldwide. Global Issues Journalism The Student News Action Network takes the concept of the school newspaper beyond school walls and the confines of print media, allowing students to work collaboratively on a global level to create an interactive, multimedia-rich student-driven online newspaper. It brings together a network of students in an online peer-driven environment to address issues of local and global significance, such as poverty, the environment, and human rights, in a creative and constructive format that culminates in meaningful efforts to make a positive impact on their world. Contributors bring their unique voices to the discussion, representing their regions and their cultural histories.

"social media to learn, collaborate, and lead "

Project Share utilizes a collection of Web 2.0 tools and applications to provide professional development resources for teachers across the state and build professional learning communities where educators can collaborate and participate in online learning opportunities.

Very cool tool that let's you create collaborative boards with all kinds of media.

create collaborative and interactive google maps

SpiderScribe is the visual learner's ideal tool. Collect a series of files including documents, pictures, maps and more, and create a concept map based on the collection. Lay them out for optimal visualization. Share them. Even collaborate to build them. Be it text, images, files, or events.

Really fun game that builds collaboration and team skills