Collaborate.Communicate.Engage.

Presented by:

Kim Boyd

Kay Cole

Objectives• Explore websites and apps that can

be used for collaboration in the classroom.

• To share engaging lesson ideas and sample products.

Technology TEKS2. Communication and Collaboration

– The student collaborates and communicates both locally and globally to reinforce and promote learning. The student is expected to:• 2a. create personal learning networks to collaborate and publish

with peers, experts, or others using digital tools such as blogs, wikis, audio/video communication, or other emerging technologies;

• 2b. communicate effectively with multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats; and

• 2c. create products using technical writing strategies.

Websites

Padlet• Formerly known as Wallwisher.• Create an account if you want to save.• Drag and drop files and photos.• See all activity on the wall instantly.• Works on phones, tablets, and PCs.• Share via URL.

Padlet

• Lesson Ideas • One student posts vocabulary word, another posts

a picture/video that illustrates the word.• Post a diagram of a cycle (i.e. water cycle)

Students complete cycle.• Post equations and have students

balance them.• Word of the Day

Padlet Activity

TitanPad• Do not have to create account.• Allows multiple users to work on a

document simultaneously.• Each user’s typing will show in a different

color.• Import Word document.• Share via URL.

TitanPad• Link to sample pad

– Staff Development– Student Sample – Constructing a Speech

• Lesson Ideas• Students can create a lab report together.• Brainstorming ideas for science fair projects.• Posting review questions and answers.• Formative Assessment

– Give Me Five– I Used to Think But Now I Know– Muddiest Point

TitanPad Activity

Twiddla• Sign up for free teacher account.• Collaborate on and annotate webpages,

documents, and images. • Begin with a blank whiteboard.• Add shapes, widgets, and formulas.• Share via URL or email.• Most robust of the three.

Twiddla• Lesson Ideas

• Students can analyze the contents of a website.• Annotate and analyze PowerPoint presentations,

Word documents, or anything in a PDF.• Work physics problems collaboratively• Create a drawing of the parts of an animal and/or

plant cell as a group.

Features• Whiteboard

– use a blank page and communicate with others by writing, drawing, or using shapes, all on a page.

• WebPage– upload a webpage URL and view website in real-time. Determine

validity of a website, view main idea, etc.

• Document– upload a document and have the group review

• Image– upload an image and mark it up!

• EtherPad– Write text and brainstorm

Twiddla Activity

http://www.twiddla.com/1273525

Apps

Baiboard• Free App• iOS, but Android coming soon• Create board and share number • Collaborative whiteboard space• Multiple pages – max pages 6• Text and Drawing• Upload documents and photos• Chat

Baiboard• Lesson Ideas

• Counting atoms in chemical formulas• Illustrate levers and pulleys• Demonstrate how Pangaea separated into

continents• Upload pictures of items that would be attracted or

not attracted to a magnet.• Explaining Newton’s laws• Cause & Effect of an event• Work math problems in groups

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SMART AddOn

Extreme Collaboration

• Brings student collaboration from mobile devices to a SMART Board® interactive display. Enables students to contribute to class discussions by sending text and images from their mobile devices to a SMART Notebook™ page for the whole class to see and explore.

Extreme Collaboration• Link to sample

• http://www.extreme-collaboration.com/about-extreme-collaboration/

• Lesson Ideas• Type problem in SMART Notebook and have

students text in answers.• Type definitions and ask students text in the

vocabulary word.• Describe and experiment and have students text in

the steps of the scientific method.

Extreme Collaboration Activity

• Living or NonLiving Lesson

Contact Us• Kim Boyd

– kimberly.boyd@fortbendisd.com– @KABoydETS– Website: clitechnology.weebly.com

• Kay Cole– kay.cole@fortbendisd.com– @KayCole13– Website: cooltools4u.weebly.com