PSU LIB 510

Great Compilation of Digital Citizenship Resources

Facilitating collaboration is one of the many aspects of teaching that requires skillful planning, a high degree of awareness, and on-the-fly decision making. Of course, even with the best preparation, the

The collective effort and exchange of ideas lead to final products and understanding that would not be possible if students were working in isolation.

amazing wiki with info on practically every area of tech in the classroom, has a whole score of things on social bookmarking

creates a collaborative q & a for any youtube- or vimeo-hosted video

Lilianna, You made my day by sharing this site. First, my husband will love this. He is always looking for how to videos on youtube. I now have it added to my Favorites Bar for him. Second, there was an older gentlemen that was talking to me about computers. He feels they are our enemy and there is no good to them. We share the pros and cons of technology and computers, and I told him about how my husband looks up how to fix things all the time on youtube. He then explained that that is one reason why businesses are closing up. I do agree with his philosophy in some sorts, but it is the way of the world and we need to change with it.

creates a virtual binder/portfolio of resources that can be organised and shared

online tool to create collaborative diagrams and flow charts

A great place to find many different webinars, collaborate in forums, and share resources, to mention a few items.

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. )

I think it is important to understand things that might get in our way of collaborating in order to be successful. We need to be ready to take these things on. this is a slide show I found on SlideShare, another tool that can be used for collaborating, that addresses this issue.

This is an article about the ten steps to making a teaming team that works. Collaboration is all about working together, and if we want that to happen the teams might be the way to go, hold each other accountable and be there to support one anther, in my time as a teacher this is what has worked, it gives us the right push.

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

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

Twitter is the most powerful tool in helping me to take control and responsibility of my own learning.

This is a common concern of teachers who are new to Project Based Learning. Things can appear to be going smoothly; students have been engaged by the project, they've been learning content and skills, they've been busy and meeting deadlines… but their thinking is not as in-depth and their final products not as polished as they should be. If this is your experience, it's time to ask yourself some questions:

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

this looks like a great way to get live feedback. could be used during presentations or as a way to comment while watching a film.

Celly brings the power of mobile social networking and knowledge discovery to everyday life in a private and secure way. Family, friends, neighbors, classmates, coworkers, and teammates can use social building blocks called "cells" for everyday collaboration, knowledge sharing, and group communication on any device. join by text in seconds unlimited members group messaging with moderation multiple-choice polling scheduled reminders track feeds automatically link networks together phone numbers are kept private works on any phone with text messaging (SMS), Android app, web and email

a friend of mine told me about celly last term, but i haven't had occasion to use it yet. have you?

WizeHive is collaborative tool that allows for voting, contests, sharing files, and more. I thought that the voting feature could be fun for students as then share work. could create a fun energy around doing their work.