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Kim Cofino's diagram about The Collaboration Cycle: Building Independence Through Partnership from Coaching and Mentoring to Partial and Full Collaboration.

Collaboration Cycle of PD.

I agree with Jeff Utecht that Kim Cofino is on to something with the collaboration cycle of "building indpendence through partnership" in terms of mentoring and helping teachers with their pd and technology integration.

Online whiteboard that's free, powerful and easy-to-use. Draw with flexible tools. Collaborate in real-time.

An online collaboration whiteboard. You can use it for free. Try using this for mindmapping and brainstorming between teams.

My take on the power of the Zoho Office Suite for collaboration and resources for education and the classroom. Writer, Sheet, Show, Creator, DB, Notebook an amazing toolset of free "in the cloud" resources that can build and enhance student collaboration and authientic learning projects.

A useful primer on collaborative learning designs.... even after all these years. [From the hard copy book: Davis, B. G. (1993). Tools for teaching. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass Publishers.]

BigMarker is a community for realtime collaboration, a marketplace for human knowledge. A place to freely express and to broadcast yourself. teach, collaborate, learn something

Our 6th grade collaborative project with a focus on global issues. We are looking for schools to join us with the hopes of working on some collaborative lyrics in Google Docs, remixing audio tracks shared between schools and possibly a skype session. We are running the project 5 times this year for 6 weeks at a time. Email me if you are interested i taking part at one point. jennifergarcia@abc-net.edu.sv

This is excellent! It may not be perfect yet, but it's as close as I've seen for collaborative writing assignments. Make sure you watch the tour video to get a sense of how it works. They will be making more enhancements for education soon (no student emails required, and better reports), but even now I think it's excellent! Watch the tour video

This is excellent! It may not be perfect yet, but it's as close as I've seen for collaborative writing assignments. Make sure you watch the tour video to get a sense of how it works. They will be making more enhancements for education soon (no student emails required, and better reports), but even now I think it's excellent!

nice video explaining why collaboration apps are useful

Wikis are an exceptionally useful tool for getting students more involved in curriculum. They're often appealing and fun for students to use, while at the same time ideal for encouraging participation, collaboration, and interaction. Read on to see how you can put wikis to work in your classroom.

A superb collaborative notepad site. Easily link to videos, audio, images, websites and other notepad pages. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

A wonderful, easy to use, collaborative mindmapping tool to organise your ideas. Just share your page link to invite others to your page. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

One of a host of Etherpad inspired collaborative notepads, but with a few little extra features, like being able to make a link to a read only page. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

An amazing collaborative music maker. Choose your instrument and change the pitch by moving your line up and down. Must be viewed on Google Chrome. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Music%2C+Sound+%26+Podcasts

A great site where you can collaborate with an online whiteboard. Invite other by giving them the page link and see then their drawings in real time. Upload images, chat and embed the whiteboard on your site. Your whiteboards are automatically saved for you to return to later. I'm excited by the possibilities of this site! http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

Interesting idea for collaboration

There is a new type of wiki called the "federated wiki" that is the new brainchild of wiki inventor, Ward Cunningham. INfluenced by GitHub, this invention lets you "fork" a wiki page and make your own version with the original author having the choice to integrate your changes or keep it separate. This may be a great type of collaborative writing tool for researchers and academicians who often are concerned about adding to a common repository in that the page could evolve to no longer represent their views but their name is still affixed to the page. On the other hand, those who may not understand it, might incorrectly attribute something that has been forked and edited but not approved by the original author. I like the potential, however. For those of you who do collaborative work, this is an excellent read.

Interesting app and way for students to collaborate on projects together. You can take notes together and send to Evernote. Plan activitties and more.. This is a very interesting collaborative tool. You can have 5 people or less on one workspace for free and can connect with Google plus (for you GAFE people.) I wish we had this sort of thing for coordinating college projects. If you have evernote, this might be a boon for you.

"Students from all over the world can collaborate in their classrooms and at home to create and publish books using Classroom Authors web based publishing application." Very cool website -- this from the publisher "Our software was developed working with Colombia University Teacher's College and over 40 classrooms with the purpose of engaging students in the writing process through collaborative book publishing." This looks to be a very cool website and another way to have students publish books and have an authentic audience.

If you're using mindmapping and brainstorming in the classroom, this list from Mashable is updated and useful. There are a lot of new tools out (many of them paid but some not.) If your students are writing collaboratively, you should have them brainstorming collaboratively before they ever type the first letter of the paper or website.

Nifty flowchart tool, collaborate in real time.