Scribblar could be a great tool for students to use to comment on and peer critique art work and graphic designs. This would be useful when students are creating slides for a presentation or a creating other original designs. Scribblar could be a more effective collaboration tool than some its competitors because it does have two options for dialog, text chat and audio chat.
With Thinkature, you can create a collaborative workspace and invite coworkers, friends, and colleagues to join you in just seconds. Once inside your workspace, you can communicate by chatting, drawing, creating cards, and adding content from around the Internet. It's all synchronous, too - no need to hit reload or get an editing lock.
SpiderScribe is an online mind mapping and brainstorming tool. It lets you organize your ideas by connecting notes, files, calendar events, etc. in free-form maps. You can collaborate and share those maps online.
"Open Spokes answers complex professional and personal questions through collaborative media. As a platform, we answer what web search can't: the biggest questions that people have within their lives and livelihoods. Questions like "What is the next step in my career?" or "How can we make our brand better" are answered through webcam video and robust analytics, providing a process for anyone to find solutions to their most pressing issues."
Hotseat, a social networking-powered mobile Web application, creates a collaborative classroom, allowing students to provide near real-time feedback during class and enabling professors to adjust the course content and improve the learning experience. Students can post messages to Hotseat using their Facebook or Twitter accounts, sending text messages, or logging in to the Hotseat Web site. via Jim Gates !-)
This site has information for program providers and end users. Thsi is a great place to get topic ideas or to find out what is available right now. There is a listserve
A free digital whiteboard that users can share online in real-time. Sorta like pen and paper, minus the dead trees, plastic, and the inconvenience of being at the same place at the same time.
We are all about collaboration. Whether you're here for fun or more practical things like layout planning, concept diagramming, or tutoring a friend in math, Scriblink brings you the power of free hand expression with anyone, at anytime, anywhere in the world.
Google Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool that's notoriously difficult to understand. This guide will help. Here you'll learn how to use Google Wave to get things done with your group. Because Wave is such a new product that's evolving quickly, this guidebook is a work in progress that will update in concert with Wave as it grows and changes.
An interactive multi-user whiteboard application
Use it for tutoring, collaborative live training, brainstorming, prototyping
An online replacement of your paintbrush application
Board800 is a multi-user-shared interactive whiteboard with simultaneous access and drawing capabilities. Users can use each page independently, and each user can see the changes on each page.
doXtop is your own, full-blown virtual publishing house
* Manage and publish anything you've written for audience
* Author and collaborate freely across corporate and international barriers
* Distribute publications via content-rich Web sites, RSS feeds and secure extranets with a click
* Engage with colleagues and readers with built-in Web 2.0 functions
* Market your published content to any audience
MetaNotes.com is an infinite online wall of stickynotes that acts like your external brain. Users can create social scrapbooks and brainstorm/collaborate in real time on a dynamic platform. MetaNotes introduced the note data model - notes containing text, images, video, powerpoints - for visual thinkers, multitaskers, and those overwhelmed with information.