Online Collaboration

MILI 2011-2012LeAnn Suchy, Metronet

leann@metronet.lib.mn.us

What is online collaboration?

• Web-based collaboration software

• Collaboration across rooms, buildings, states, countries

• Collaboration on documents, presentations, spreadsheets, blogs, websites, etc.

Why online collaboration in education?

• Can collaborate from anywhere with a computer and internet connection

• No software to download and upgrade

• Teachers can be included in collaboration process, not just end result

Wikis

We’ll talk about

PBworks

Set up best

practices before

use

Blogs

Blogspost@posterous.com

Send an email, the blog is posted!

Attach images, they appear in the blog.

Put in an YouTube link, it embeds the video in the post.

For group blog: other users post w/ an email address.

There are othersWe’ll focus on certain tools, but there are others

At our in-person meeting we’ll…

• Go over how to use PBWorks & Posterous

• Give you time to use either of those tools

• And ask you to share some things you’ve done/thought about/used since our last meeting