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Alternative classroom designs have emerged that support collaborative learning and shift the focus away from lecture-based formats.

A possible way to do live and collaborative mindmapping.

Pie sharing in complex clinical collaborations: a piece of cake? (British Medical Journal, December 2010)

A good summary of potential for Google presentations.

Student groups can work together to annotate the same Google Map! A Google account is needed and sharing is done in a similar way as other Google Drive tools (e.g. Docs, Sheets, Slides etc).

We've discovered 52 great tips for getting the most out of Google Docs as a student, with awesome ideas and tricks for collaboration, sharing, and staying productive.

Cathy Moore runs a well-received blog on elearning. In this post she offers both tips (nothing too revelatory) & gotchas (where she has decided NOT to use certain tools, eg public chat, 'meaningless' polls & breakout rooms). She discusses webinars in general, not Collaborate specifically.

Jan 2009, Steve Dale, Semantix UK

Microsoft Office 365, the technology giant's suite of productivity apps for the cloud, made its global debut Tuesday. The cloud-based software places Microsoft Office, SharePoint, Exchange and Lync into the cloud. The product was first introduced last October as Microsoft's way to bring its popular collaboration and productivity products to the web. Office 365 comes with all of the Office Web Apps (Word, Excel, OneNote, PowerPoint), as well as email support and Microsoft Access. Essentially, Microsoft has created one product for all of its cloud-based productivity software.

Adobe Connect now has mobile access!