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"EtherPad is the only web-based word processor that allows people to work together in really real-time."

The latest effort by the New Humanities Collaborative to tell the story of how reading and writing have been transformed by the web. What does it mean to write? to read? to publish? The answers to these questions, once obvious, must now be reimagined. Can the educational system rise to the challenge of preparing students to live, work, think, and thrive in an environment of ceaseless change?

Gives you a lot to think about in the area of change. It has to happen. That is how I want my students to learn. We have to teach collaboration. That has been difficult this year with our fifth graders. They do not know how to compromise.

New technologies and a closely related culture of collaboration present radical new models of social organisation. This project brings together leading practitioners and thinkers in this field and asks them to determine the opportunity for government.

A very interesting video from Jon Udell analyzing the development of a wikipedia article. This demonstrates how technology allows for the collaborative creation of knowledge, even around niche topics.

"This conceptual video is a corporate collaborative research project initiated by Bonnier R&D into the experience of reading magazines on handheld digital devices. It illustrates one possible vision for digital magazines in the near future, presented by our design partners at BERG."

The latest effort by the New Humanities Collaborative to tell the story of how reading and writing have been transformed by the web. What does it mean to write? to read? to publish? The answers to these questions, once obvious, must now be reimagined. Can the educational system rise to the challenge of preparing students to live, work, think, and thrive in an environment of ceaseless change?

This is a collaborative project to generate Social Media Guidelines for school districts. The goal of this guideline is to provide instructional employees, staff, students, administrators, parents and the school district community direction when using social media applications both inside and outside the classroom.

Collaborative multimedia presentations enable small groups like teaching teams to work together to: * present knowledge in different and (if you do it right) compelling ways * engage active participation by the entire class instead of broadcasting to it like a passive audience

This is a collaborative project to generate Social Media Guidelines for school districts. The goal of this guideline is to provide instructional employees, staff, students, administartors, parents and the school district community direction when using social media applications both inside and outside the classroom.

This is a site that contains links to web 2.0 tools in various categories: presentation, collaboration, research, video, etc.

Wouldn't it be great to invite authors into your classroom or library to video chat with students before, during, and/or after you've read their books? We are growing a list of authors who want to make that connection with you. See the alphabetical list in the scrolling author box on the left. Read on to find out just how easy it is!

The most profound impact of the Internet, an impact that has yet to be fully realized, is its ability to support and expand the various aspects of social learning. What do we mean by "social learning"? Perhaps the simplest way to explain this concept is to note that social learning is based on the premise that our understanding of content is socially constructed through conversations about that content and through grounded interactions, especially with others, around problems or actions. The focus is not so much on what we are learning but on how we are learning….

Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online.

Awakening and engaging collective intelligence through conersations about questions that matter.""

GroupTweet allows members to send messages via Twitter that are instantly broadcasted privately to only the team members.

Enjoy learning languages.