Collaboration Tools

      To collaborate means to work, one with another, and cooperate as on a literary work. Collaboration is a big deal when working with other teachers and students. When students collaborate with each other, they are not only learning from each other, but they are learning how to work with each other.

     There are many different collaboration sites on the web these days. Having a Blog is a type of collaboration tool. Teachers can use Blogger to communicate with each other and their students. A teacher could post a discussion topic from the day, and have each student write about what they learned from that subject. If a student misses a test, then the teacher can post on quizlet, or poll everywhere to help that student to catch up on schoolwork. Another collaboration tool is TeacherTube. On Teacher Tube, teacher's post different video's or ideas to use in the classroom. Using all of these tools will not only help keep my lesson plans organized, but it will also help other teachers when making lesson plans. The only challenge is with early grade level students, I believe that they would be too young to maneuver these sites, but as a teacher, I could use these sites to collaborate with their parents.