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"Facilitator:Emma Duke-WilliamsEmma Duke-Williams Collaboration is a term that is used quite loosely. What do we mean when we say we are collaborating? Why do we collaborate? What are the key characteristics that differentiate collaboration from cooperation and working independently? What tools support the collaborative process online? During this 3-week seminar we will use Google Wave and other emerging technologies to explore their potential for supporting online collaboration while addressing these and other questions. "

Anderson and Anderson (2010) characterize online continuing professional education (CPE) conferences as "structured, time[-]delineated" events involving "distributed population[s]" in synchronous or asynchronous use of "online communication and collaboration tools" (p. 15). They suggest that these characteristics may enhance "both the quantity and quality of interaction" in formal CPE sessions, thanks to possibilities for preliminary access to conference materials, world-wide participation, and asynchronous as well as real-time interpersonal engagements (p. 22), which in turn may promote constructivist and connectivist modes of learning within professional communities of practice (pp. 7-10). Anderson, Lynn; & Anderson, Terry. (2010). Online Conferences: Professional Development for a Networked Era. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing

"online meeting platform . . . for realtime collaboration"

Evaluation of Type With Me "This is an online rich text editor that allows people to share their writing and upload files. It differs from Google docs in that realtime collaborative editing can occur between teams. Authors can choose to have their writing in different colours."

"Here are a few tools you may want to consider, some of their notable features and the cost for using them" (¶2, 2010.11.24).

This blog post recap's an online professional development session about preparing conference posters. It also provides links to the Blackboard Collaborate recording of, and Slideshare presentation slides for the session, as well as the presenter's resource laden website.

Scheduled seminar facilitated by Emma Duke-Williams

Holger mentioned three kinds of trust: 1) affect-based - "influenced by the first visual expression we have, plus the additional information we get from our other senses" (¶2); 2) cognition-based - derived from analysis of personal info. and behavior (¶3); and 3) swift - derived from observation of "team members' behavior while working on joint projects" (¶4).