I have to confess that I'm more impressed with your reflective process than I am with Prezi as a real-time collaborative tool. Sounds like something I would try! And I'd hope that I'd learn a lot through the process as you have.
Thanks for the post and Jose for recommending http://cohere.open.ac.uk/ He's right that it's messy but it reminds me a lot of Taba's List-Group-Label that I often then add the mindmapping step to.
"According to George Siemens, "we can no longer personally experience and acquire learning that we need to act. We derive our competence from forming connections." As I mentioned before, I would not have had nearly as an enriching experience in this class had it not been collaborative in nature. "
Amazing timeline project with contributions from around the world. Laurie Halse Anderson's Fever 1793 is "creative nonfiction" about the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia in 1793.
Great info on Glogster in the classroom, including rubric and how-to videos (how to embed as Wiki home especially helpful)
Note that Glogster.edu has some special advantages for educators.
Trailfire + Voki mashup -- create a talking avatar that you can add to websites, place on websites you want kids to research and then create a tour guide-led tour.
Tom March and Bernie Dodge were originators of the WebQuest. This is Tom's site and the quality control is evident with ratings according to a strict rubric that requires an inquiry task that is transformative.
Janell did a good job on this WebQuest on creating a business plan. Would suggest that the rubric needs to be more detailed but, all in all, the model with a small team and each has a role should work well.