Teaching Tools 4 You

The best thing about these collaborative whiteboards is that they encourage students to learn collaboratively, a skill much needed in the 21st century education. Being a whiteboard means that you can use it not only as a collaboration tool but also to host virtual brainstorming sessions with your students and best of all, the flow of ideas never stop.

In previous blogs, we focused on web tools to collect and organize content and tools to help students create and present ideas. In this module, we focus on how to use web tools to foster collaboration. Randy Nelson (Pixar University) provides a brilliant definition of collaboration by using two principles of improv.

Whether you are looking for tools that can bring a distance education class together or tools to help students and teachers in traditional classrooms working on group projects, the following collaboration tools will help with any need. From group papers to file sharing to group communication, the following tools will help bring any educational group together seamlessly to produce awesome results.

With the advance of web 2.0 technologies, there emerged a wide range of educational tools that we can use with our students in and outside the classroom.Collaborative web tools is one example.