mili 2011-2012 - online collaboration
DESCRIPTION
Month 2 webinar for the MILI program, this one about online collaboration, what that is, and tools we'll use in the program.TRANSCRIPT
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
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