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This is a site containing activities that involve online collaboration between classrooms. Classrooms can register for collaborative projects that are featured on the site.

Could smartphones in the classroom be the next step in collaborative technology?

More ideas for using Twitter in the classroom.

DyKnow is a company that offers products for managing and enhancing technology in computer-based classrooms. They recently posted an article on their blog that links to the top read articles they've published over the last year. Many of these articles touch on challenges in technology based education, digital citizenship, and helpful tips for an edtech classroom.

This resource discusses collaboration between facilitators and teachers for integrating technology into the classroom. This seems like it would be useful for implementing collaborative technology tools on a large scale.

iPads have exploded throughout schools and classrooms. Their flexibility, versatility, and mobility make them a phenomenal learning tool. As teachers seek ways to integrate these devices, we recommend focusing on specific learning goals that promote critical-thinking, creativity, collaboration, and the creation of student-centric learning environments. Below, you will find a list of objectives, each one connecting to recommended apps and tools.

Webinar from Adam Bellows, founder of EduTecher and EduClipper gives thorough explanation of all capabilities of EduClipper.

Edutopia's summer blog series includes great articles of a variety of online tools for use in the classroom, both collaborative and others.

here's a cool article with a bunch of ways to use pinterest in the classroom

A video tutorial about how to make a youtube channel. This can be useful to many teachers who have no idea what they are doing. It will also help those teachers who are looking to flip the classroom.

A chat site where teachers share ideas in all different subjects or meaningful occurrences, such as math language arts, science, social studies, professional development, classroom management, special needs, or technology.

This is a great free tool for elementary or sped classrooms more so than middle or high school, but it could be used at any. Once the teacher puts in the students names the students can choose their Avatar to go with their name. There is also an App to this, so teachers can be walking around the room and click on the person being on or off task by use of their phone or other mobile device. Points are given for on task and taken away for off task. Teachers can look at the end of class/day to see what students were being on task, or on task and for what reason. Parents or other staff members could even access individual students to check on behaviors.

An inexpensive site for added reading/language skills support. Kids play computer games while learning sight words, spelling, and reading. (Classroom use is $80 year with 30 users. Small school $500, large $1,000. )

Read Write Think is a website that has some great reading and writing resources for teachers. There are lesson plans, student inter-actives, mobile apps, etc. There is also a parent section that has subjects like "how to start a blog" and others.

cecibunney, I love this one and have saved it to use when I get my own classroom again for additional supports. Thank you!

This article lists ten top sites for digital collboration in project based learning. From management tools to social gathering sites, this article lists quite a few sites I've never heard of!

I found this article interesting. I've seen a lot of articles suggesting the use of different tools, but nothing about how these tools should actually be used. I found this informative.

This article explains how the new software and technology that has been incorporated into the Tahoma School District has provided significant opportunity for students in the special education program. The article outlines several specific software programs and apps that students use to overcome print disabilities, speech impairment, and a number of other physical and academic disabilities.

This seems like a versatile tool. It includes forums, allows users to post attachments, and also allows teachers to share resources.

This is a lesson plan for a collaborative project involving water. It uses technology tools, and seems to be pretty well thought out.