Engaging Learners with New Strategies and Tools
Collaboration:
- Stixy : works like an online bulletin board or whiteboard. It offers a work space where you can place content and collaborate with other people on the web. (Bogdan, 2011)
- Wikis: a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and crosslinks between internal pages on the fly. (wiki.org, 2002)
- Writeboard: a free collaborative writing software. It can be used to write, edit, track changes, and rollback to previous versions. (Brogdan, 2011).
Communication:
- Skype: is software that enables you to make free calls anywhere in the world. Skype uses P2P (peer-to-peer) technology to connect you with other users. It offers several features, including SkypeOut calling from Skype to regular and mobile phones worldwide, conference calling, and secure file transferring. You can also now share your screen with other users. Skype calls focus on video and audio quality, and secure the calls with end-to-end encryption. Read more: Skype - Download.com http://download.cnet.com/Skype/3000-2349_4-10225260.html#ixzz1lBzzDLAE
(France, 2010).
Blog: A blog is often a mixture of what is happening in a person's life and what is happening on the Web, a kind of hybrid diary/guide site. (Marketing Terms, 2012).
E-mail: Electronic mail that is sent and received via the internet.
Content:
Delicious: allows users to collect web-based resources into stacks which can be shared within the community and added to by others. (Marquis, 2012).
Twiddla: a real-time online collaboration tool. (Twiddla, 2012).
Wridea: Wridea is a web service first to avoid ideas being forgotten, then to organize and improve those ideas by giving you the opportunity to share your ideas with friends and necessary tools to improve your ideas by yourself and individually. (Bogdan, 2011).
References:
Bogdan, (2011). 10 Examples Of Very Useful Online Collaborative Tools. Reyrieved from http://www.topdesignmag.com/10-examples-of-very-useful-online-collaborative-tools/
Wiki, (2002). What is Wiki? Retrieved from http://wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WhatIsWiki
France, J. (2010). Skype. Retrieved from http://download.cnet.com/Skype/3000-2349_4-10225260.html
Marketing Terms. (2012). Blog: Weblog. Retrieved from http://www.marketingterms.com/dictionary/blog/
Twiddla. (2012). Twiddla is a no-setup, web-based meeting Playground. Retrieved from http://www.twiddla.com/
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ReplyDeleteYou have mentioned quite a few tools that can foster learning, that I was not aware of, such as Stixy, Twiddla, and Wridea ! Your post has enlightened me, as well as, reminded me of the importance of keeping abreast with emerging technology! Thanks for the insight. I checked out Twiddla and thought it was great, I could readily identify ways I could integrate it in the classroom, especially in an online setting.
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