collaboration tools in education
DESCRIPTION
Use of computers in Education has increased a lot and is benefiting a lot to the students and teachers. Also with this change an important change that is happening is use of the Opensource softwares in education. This presentation talks about some of the collaboration tools that are opensource and can be used for learning and teaching process.TRANSCRIPT
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FOSS Tools for Collaboration FOSS Tools for Collaboration in Educationin Education
National Workshop on FOSS Adoption in Education CDAC, Navi Mumbai
Prakash B. PimpaleStaff Scientist
KBCS, CDAC Mumbai
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GOALSGOALS
Understand
➢ Collaboration tools
What are these tools?
How do they work?
➢ Use of Collaboration Tools
Where and How these can be used in Education ?
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WAY AHEADWAY AHEAD
➢ Background & Overview
➢ Tools
➢ Demo
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BACKGROUND & OVERVIEWBACKGROUND & OVERVIEW
➢ What is collaboration?
The action of working with someone to
Produce
Create
Learn
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➢ Why and Where is it
happening now?
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➢ Collaboration tools:
Blogs, Wikis, Social Networking Sites,
e-mail, Discussion Boards,
Real Time Collaborative Writing, Web
Conferencing/Meeting, Social Bookmarking,
Project Management, Resource Sharing ...
➢ Use of tools - Our 'Need' and We 'Should'
➢ Tech savy generation, Many resources ...
➢ Availability of tools, Enriches education process ...
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The shift
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➢ Using these tools we
can now do it all
online at one place!
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TOOLSTOOLS
➢ Chat/ Instant Messaging
➢ Discussion Boards
➢ Blogs
➢ Micro-Blogs
➢ Wikis
➢ Polls
➢ Social Networks
➢ Real Time collaborative
Writing/Editing
➢ Concept Mapping
➢ Project Management
➢ Web Conferencing/
Meeting/ Webinars
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e-Maile-Mail
➢ Electronic mail
➢ Simplest way of communication
➢ Basic way for collaboration
➢ Can be used for
➢ Information sharing
➢ Assignment submission
➢ Threaded discussions/brainstorming on idea
➢ Administration and Communication
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Chat/ Instant MessagingChat/ Instant Messaging
➢ Real-time/instant direct communication
➢ Two or more participants
➢ Brainstorming and discussions
Questions paper setting, Decision Making
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Discussion BoardsDiscussion Boards
➢ Topic and replies
➢ Can be used for
Brainstorming, Discussions,
Assignment Submissions,
Question and Answers
➢ Can be created even by students and
faculty can monitor and intervene
➢ Being recoded allows to make
content public – works as
Repository
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BlogsBlogs
➢ A Web site on which an individual or group of users share
opinions, information, etc. on a regular basis
➢ Can be used for
➢ Class website – teachers only permission
➢ Share best practices, experiences, course material apart
from text books
➢ Discussions and questions/answers
➢ Your good blog post (interpretation of certain concept) may
help other class/school students also
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Wordpress – General Public License
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Micro-BlogsMicro-Blogs
➢ Share links, status, information with students, teachers
➢ 140 characters limit
➢ StatusNet - Affero General Public License
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WikisWikis
➢ A website allowing creation and editing of any number of
interlinked web pages via a web browser
➢ Simplified mark-up language or WYSIWYG editor
➢ History of edits is maintained
➢ Can be used for
➢ Collaborative content creation and sharing
➢ Summary of classroom activities by teacher with the help
from students
➢ For start – Information of plants in school campus
➢ MediaWiki – General Public License
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S. D. Public School, Pitampura, India
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PollsPolls
➢ Polls for consensus building/Decision making
➢ Decision on shall we go on trip? and also on shall we
conduct test on this Friday? (if they say No do it!)
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Social NetworksSocial Networks
➢ Web-based services that allow users to
Create profile, connect other users and
Share text, images, videos
➢ Enables interactions
➢ Features like blogs, groups, forums
➢ Can be used to
➢ Share resources
➢ Connect students and teachers
➢ Create groups for subjects
➢ Powerful than just blogs or discussion forums
➢ Elgg and BuddyPress – General Public License
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Powered by Elgg – General Public License
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Real Time collaborativeReal Time collaborativeWritingWriting
➢ A software that allows several people to write/edit same
document in real time
➢ Visualise many students writing on same slate
➢ Can be used
➢ To Prepare documents, presentations
➢ To set question papers
➢ Etherpad – various parts under Apache, GPL, BSD, LGPL
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Concept MappingConcept Mapping
➢ A concept map is a diagram showing the relationships
among concepts
➢ Collaborative creation of concept maps
➢ Can be used
➢ For assessing students in concepts
➢ Creating content collaboratively
➢ XMind – Lesser General Public License and Eclipse Public
License
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Concept Map of collaboration tools
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Project ManagementProject Management➢ Software to manage group projects
➢ Allows
➢ Resource management
➢ Task management
➢ Milestones and calendering
➢ Time tracking
➢ Document management
➢ Can used
➢ For group projects
➢ For assessment
➢ Collabtive and Project.Net - General Public License
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Web ConferencingWeb Conferencing
➢ A web based application for conferencing/Meeting
➢ Allows
➢ Video Conferencing
➢ Chat
➢ Whiteboard writing/drawing
➢ Can be used
➢ For remote assistance to students
➢ For Conducting Meetings
➢ OpenMeeting - Eclipse Public License
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ReferencesReferences➢ Teaching with Technology : Collaboration Tools, Technology for Education, Carnegie Mellon
➢ Social Networking in Higher Education by Bryan Alexander
➢ Collaboration Tools by Cyprien Lomas, Michael Burke, and Carie L. Page
➢ New student collaboration tools EDUCAUSE Evolving Technologies Committee Pablo G.
Molina, Georgetown University
➢ Collaboration and Technology for Teaching and Learning Albert L. Ingram, Ph. D. Robyn E,
Parker, Ph. D. and the Collaborative Technologies Learning Community Kent State
University
This work by CDAC is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License
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Thank you!Thank you!
Prakash B. [email protected], [email protected]
CDAC, Navi Mumbaiwww.cdac.in
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DemoDemo
➢ Etherpad
➢ Link: http://beta.primarypad.com/
➢ OpenMeeting
➢ Link: http://demo.openmeetings.de/openmeetings/
➢ Collabtive
➢ Link: http://collabtive.o-dyn.de/demo/