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.
Sync.in is a web based word processor for people to collaborate in real-time.
When multiple people edit the same document simultaneously, any changes are instantly reflected on everyone's screen. The result is a new and productive way to collaborate with text documents, useful for meeting notes, brainstorming, project planning, training, and more.
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To make positive change, there is a formula that can work.
1. The center of curriculum revolves around the Common Core State Standards.
2. Common formative assessments are developed and analyzed measuring the students' abilities of the standards.
3. An engaging and relevant content curriculum that matches the skills we are teaching our children.
4. Use proven research-based instruction in the classroom.
It sounds easy, but we tend to focus too much on content and testing as opposed to skill development.
Verifiable allows users to upload, mash and visualize data. Verifiable just launched earlier this year and has fewer publicly available data sets, but it does offer greater flexibility on how the data is styled and presented. Graphic designers will appreciate the ability to change and tweak the presentation and add details like custom labels and shading. Verifiable is free to use if you keep your charts public, but also has a inexpensive pricing plan for those who want to keep their work private.\n
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"So the challenge is to find ways to create online teacher professional development that seems both compelling in its content and also more convenient, easier to fit into the work life of a teacher than the face-to-face courses"