Collaboration+&+Communication+Tools

Collaboration gives students ownership of their writing, and helps create a work that is better than any one individual could produce. Tutors need to be aware of potential problems regarding plagiarism, equal division of work, group dynamics and differing skill levels.
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These platforms include public social networks, tools to create private collaborative spaces for groups or communities. Tools for a range of synchronous and asynchronous communication activities.

You can have multiple timelines, so each student could have one for the course, and then create personal ones separately. They can choose to share the course timeline with their colleagues and tutor. This could make a good visual portfolio. ||  ||   || Recordings are available to all. It is possible to set up a private channel, but if you embed the audio in Moodle, people would get a 'forbidden' notice because the channel is hidden to anyone that isn't logged in and added as a contributor to the channel. It is also possible to setup a public channel for the OP, which some schools are doing. ||  ||   ||
 * **Collaboration & Communication Tools** ||= **Moodle Activity? (Y/N)** || **Notes** || **Example** || **Support -**
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 * 1 Second Everyday || N || Record 1 second video clip every day of your life. Organises in a timeline, can have multiple timelines.
 * Audioboo || N || A simple high quality tool for audio producers to record, upload and share audio.
 * Blogger || N || Used for topic discussion by a group, or as a reflective journal. Can be shared between the group, or made private. ||  ||   ||
 * Bubble.us || N || Bubbl.us is a web application that lets you brainstorm online. You can create colourful mind maps online, share and work with friends, embed your mind map in Moodle, email and print your mind map, save your mind map as an image. ||  ||   ||
 * Coggle || N || A mind mapping tool that can be shared and collaborated on with colleagues. Have you made changes to a document, only to come back a day later and decide you don't like the edits? Simply enter history mode to find the right version, and make a copy from that point! Ever wondered who made those changes to that shared document? Just enter the diagram history mode to find out. ||  ||   ||
 * Diigo || N || Diigo is a social-bookmarking tool that allows registered users to highlight, bookmark, and take screenshots and pictures of online resources.

Diigo Groups provides access to collaborative user groups allowing collaboration and sharing of all the features offered by Diigo. Has an iPad App || Collaboration example ||  ||
 * Doctopus (Google add-on) || N || Doctopus makes it easier for teachers to share, organize, and assess student work in Google Drive.

It's tentacles copy and "hand out" Drive files to a roster of students, giving teachers full control over starter template, sharing configuration, folder organization and file naming, as well as full visibility over all work in progress. Transfer ownership back to students once the assignment is completed. ||  ||   || iOS & Android apps available. Flickr supports geotags, so it’s possible to describe where each photo was taken and see this on a map. Flickr: • Allows private groups to be set up for sharing photos, discussions and geotags; • The tutor can set up the private group and then invite students to join the group; • You don’t have to use the app to take the photo, so it can be uploaded later when you have internet access; • Privacy options can be set per photo rather than at profile level, so it’s possible for students to use this beyond the end of the course.
 * Edublogs || N || Used for topic discussion by a group, or as a reflective journal. Can be shared between the group, or made private. iOS & Android apps available ||  ||   ||
 * Etherpad Lite || N || Create your board to collaborate with others. Just forward the URL to your friends or colleagues. Nobody else knows the board name. Thus you need no additional password to protect it. ||  ||   ||
 * Flickr || N || Images can be shared within an online community or private groups. Supports geotags.

The app requires a Yahoo user account, however students may well be using this app to share their photos already. ||  ||   || moderate comments on your website. || Used in e-learning 5901 for participants to share their thoughts on students' online learning experiences. ||  || Ask Fiona if you'd like this. Create milestones and align these with contract deliverables. Set up date conditions for tasks assigned to individuals, and the system will automatically email out reminders to them. Share in the cloud, access from anywhere. Phone app available. || ||   ||
 * FutureMe || N || Write a letter to your future self. This service will then email the letter to you on a date in the future that you choose. Great for use in courses such as Business Ethics or teaching, where your understanding of the subject will change significantly over the course of study. Students could write a letter to themselves at the beginning of their study, and revisit it at the end. ||  ||   ||
 * HTML Comment Box || N || Use this widget to receive and
 * LinkedIn || N || Social network for professionals; groups can be set up. ||  ||   ||
 * Lucidchart || N || Lucidchart is an HTML5-based visual collaboration tool that can create flow charts, mind maps and other diagrams. Work on your own or with others to create and edit diagrams in real time, with changes merged and synced. Students could use it to arrange ideas for their assignments or to work in a group to brainstorm around a given topic. They offer free educational accounts for you to use with your course or department. || For tutorials and support visit their website. ||  ||
 * Mindjet || N || Tool for managing your files and sharing them with colleagues on and off site (e.g. external writers and EDs). Creates an easy to edit mindmap.
 * Online Conferencing (Lync) || ? || Awaiting details from Ed Tech, including confirmation of what features will be available when and what type of support is provided to students. ||  ||   ||
 * Padlet || N || Provides an essentially blank canvas for students to create and design collaborative projects. Great for brainstorming. || Students on the 5901 e-learning course are asked to share their thoughts on the tools that are available now that were unheard of 10 years ago. ||  ||
 * Photo Prompts || N || This site is a resource of visual, thought-provoking prompts that can be used as ice-breakers in online classes. The images are already attributed and can be uploaded into a VoiceThread or embedded in an LMS for student blogs or discussion forum. Lots of great ways to use these stimulating prompts to foster student-student interaction. ||  ||   ||
 * Picasa Web Albums || N || Images can be shared within an online community or private groups. Supports geotags ||  ||   ||
 * Pinterest ||  || Free sharing site. Can share pictures but also ideas and learning content. Can be used to create collaborative ideas generation || Mentioned by Australian VET practitioners as both an alternative to photo sharing sites and an extension of that idea. ||   ||
 * Scrawler || N || A web word processor and whiteboard. Write, edit, collaborate, save and share work on any tablet, phone or computer. The tutor creates an account for their class and adds students. Students login using their class code and their unique password. Really easy to use, and a good solution is you want to provide students with a shareable but private whiteboard. ||  ||   ||
 * ThinkBinder || N || A free collaboration tool that allows students to ask questions and discuss topics in a group, share, create and work together on almost any project. Cloud based. ||  ||   ||
 * TodaysMeet || N || This online collaboration tool allows educators to create a “room” in which students can share ideas, answers and thoughts to lectures and lessons. Educators can view student responses in real time for evidence of learning. You can save the contents of the room. ||  ||   ||
 * Twiddla || N || Collaborative online whiteboard. You could use this to discuss the structure of a sample essay with your students, or to annotate the architectural features in an image, for example.

You don't need to sign up, just click Go to start and then invite others to collaborate. You can add notes to a web page, document or image. Note: you work on one screen, so when you switch between image, whiteboard, document, etc, it replaces what's currently on the screen.

Save you work by taking a snapshot and uploading this to Online Campus. || Try out their sandbox. || Twiddla's FAQs || GroupTweet || N || Turns a standard Twitter account into a group communication hub where members can post updates to everyone in the group using direct messages. ||  ||   || Used for topic discussion by a group, or as a reflective journal. Can be made public or kept private. iOS & Android apps available ||  ||   ||
 * Twitter || N || A real-time information network that connects you to the latest stories, ideas, opinions and news about what you find interesting. Simply find the accounts you find most compelling and follow the conversations. ||  ||   ||
 * Twitter apps (3rd Party)
 * Wikispaces || N || Wikis are commonly used for group documentation or assignment work. This wiki is build using this tool, which lets you use a WYSIWYG editor to easily create content. As an education user your account is upgraded for free, giving you greater control over permissions. ||  ||   ||
 * Wordpress || N || Start a blog or build a website.

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