Collaboration

=Tools for Collaboration=

Document (and More) Sharing
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Google Docs
Google Docs  - Multiple Editors can work simultaneously on same document  //Example//: 8th graders' Literary Analysis Doc || Google Forms  - Use for quizzes, surveys, sharing resources
 * **Docs**
 * **Forms**

 //Example//: Share the Wealth  - After learning principles of website evaluation, students search for authoritative website resources for their persuasive blog  topics. When they find good ones, they add the links to a the Share the Wealth form, which can be viewed and sorted in a spreadsheet.  The best websites are then added to the Link Library  for each blog. || Google Presentations_ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The presentation tool that is collaborative //Example//: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Google Slam Presentation  || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Google Sites <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Simple, secure group websites. Build websites for almost anything! Video Tutorial ||
 * **Presentations**
 * **Sites**

Type with Me
Type With Me -No account needed!

**More "sticky note" Web 2.0 Tools**

 * Wallwisher
 * Primary Wall
 * Corkboard Me

Bubble.us
Simple brainstorming tool--Like Inspiration only FREE

Exploratree

Evernote
Evernote is a cloud solutions so your notes are kept up to date across all of your computers, phones, devices and the Web. Notebooks can be used to organize your notes. Your account is password protected notes and make them available to you anywhere.

Dropbox
Your files, anywhere. Any file you save to Dropbox also instantly saves to your computers, phones and the Dropbox website.

**Glass**
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Tweetdeck
a real-time browser you can use to connect with Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn--Search for what you need to know.

HootSuite
Social Media Dashboard

TweetCaster
Tweetcaster - All the basic Twitter Functions - reading, viewing profiles, sending tweets, clicking links - are simple and intuitive.

Twitoaster
A Twitter web application that threads and archives your conversations in real time, bringing you all the context and statistics you need to improve the way you communicate with your followers.

Linked In
A place to build a professional network.

**Blogging**

 * [|Blogster]
 * [|Wordpress]
 * Edublogs
 * Edmodo

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//Examples//- <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Library Blogs** [|Never Ending Search] EMS Library - A Learning Commons The Unquiet Library **Student Blogs** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Blogs O’ Persuasion <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Blitscussions

Facebook
//Examples:// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">CASL! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">The Unquiet Library <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">EMS Cheetah Library

**Resource sharing**

Wikis!
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Wikispaces - free upgraded accounts for educators <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> PBWorks

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//Examples:// Teacher/Librarian Collaboration <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Content/Subject Wikis <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, Student created content: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">EcoCheetah Wiki

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">**LiveBinders** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Your 3-ring binder for the Web <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Examples: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Sci-Fi LiveBinder <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Civil War Biography Resources <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Blue Spruce, Web 2.0 - A Celebration of Student Learning

Poll Everywhere
An easy way to gather live responses in any venue, and it is free for up to 30 users.

Netvibes


<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dashboard everything! Can publish public Netvibes feeds <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> //Examples//: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Newz4U <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Book Buzz

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Google Reader**
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Set up feeds in folders and share as bundles or public pages //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Examples: //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Libraries and Librarians <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Book Reviews for YA and Children’s Books How to: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Google Reader Video Tutorials

Private Social Networks
Free alternative to NING! Check out Grouply tools for the education community.