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Mindmap - best online collaborative tools

Lighthouse Learning Technologies 2010 etherpad collaborative document. Etherpad is a free, no sign up, no ads collaborative editor. One click to create your own collaborative space. Share and discuss your most powerful learning tool and how you use it. Elaborate on such things as * classroom implications * student engagement * impact on learning outcomes

This looks like an interesting application for collaboration on the iPad. You can collaborate with an unlimited amount of students/teachers/experts on the one pad and it is all in real-time, some fantastic potential uses for this app...

"Sync.in is a web based word processor for people to collaborate in real-time. When multiple people edit the same document simultaneously, any changes are instantly reflected on everyone's screen. The result is a new and productive way to collaborate with text documents, useful for meeting notes, brainstorming, project planning, training, and mor"

Hi Steve, it looks like its based on the old etherpad code, a great tool until you hit 15 users.

Mark, Even the interface is very similar. PiratePad (http://piratepad.net/) is another alternative Google have now included the EtherPad feature in its new version of google docs (It' still in preview and you need to tick a box in the document editing settngs). I'm yet to try it out with a class. Found that EtherPad also had issues with the 15 users. In a class I would often make more than one pad.

A collaborative tool where you can create a notebook ....you can add text /images and even clips.

As the title suggests, this blog entry gives three registration-free tools for collaboration with some features and benefits for each tool. Has anyone used any of these before?

Online Collaborative writing tool

Some great new ideas on how to use iPads, Google Maps & Google Search in the classroom. These are collaborative documents which are always having new ideas added to them... 

A fantastic example of what can happen when quality collaboration occurs. This page shares some fantastic crowd-sourced presentations on interesting ways to use various technology in your classroom. Well worth a look.

Great graphic organisers online

Exploratree is a great site for educators to use for creating mind maps or brainstorming. This is an easy site to use that allows for group collaboration and comments as well. Best of all, Exploratree has a number of different templates to choose from to find the right "mind map" for you.

This website looks like a great resource for those teachers/classes looking to collaborate globally with classes/people on certain topics. When you create a profile on the site, you specify how you are interested in using Skype with your class, and then from there you can search for classes/people with similar interests to organise a video conference. 

Lots of people would have seen something from this great collaborative series.  I really like that the examples are ideas that you can implement with your class immediately. 

Simple iphone friendly story telling, location, images and text, quite good for a procedural text or excursion report. Students can collaborate on projects. Really good with mobile technology.

An alternative to Wallwisher geared towards primary students - worth a look. 

"MAKE IT INTERACTIVE Lesson activities and resources powered by SMART Notebook™ collaborative learning software"

An awesome chart explaining the difference between Blogs, Wikis & Collaborative Documents - well worth a look if tossing up between them. Has the good & bad points for each tool, and also has examples of each tool being used in the classroom. Great reference point

A site from the Townsville Diocese where students are collaborating with Wollongong Schools to learn more about Mary MacKillop 

An outstanding collaborative google doc outlining way to encourage families and parents to visit school/class blogs...

"For students and teachers, the Google Docs collection provides a streamlined, collaborative solution to writing papers, organizing presentations and putting together spreadsheets and reports. But besides the basic features, there are lots of little tricks and hacks you can use to make your Google Docs experience even more productive. Here are 100 great tips for using the documents, presentations and spreadsheets in Google Docs."