With the proliferation of high speed
internet connections it's becoming possible for you
and your students to interact online in real time to
collaborate on projects. Below are some
examples of how online collaboration can work.
PrimaryPad.com
This website allows you to create an online notepad
were up to 16 people can contribute text at the same
time. There is also a chat feature where
participants can converse without typing into the
collective document. In a setting where
everyone has computer access students & teachers
could use a free website like this to share
research, hyperlinks and ideas simultaneously.
It's also important to note that sites like these
are not constricted by location. Anyone in the
world with an internet connection can be
collaborating with you using a resource like this.
Skype
Video chatting offers a huge new way for people to
interact online. Free video chatting services
have many things to offer students and teachers.
For starters there is the obvious opportunity to
interact online and see each other at the same time.
There is also the use of screen sharing to
projects a presentation to another classroom
elsewhere in the world. Services like
ooVoo.com also
allow for multi-person video chatting so a small
meeting can be easily help online. These
services can also be used for text chatting and file
sharing.
AnyMeeting.com
Webinars are a pretty standard practice in large
corporations. Instead of spending lots of time
and money to gather employees together for a
presentation the internet is used to broadcast a
presentation in real time to employees all around
the world. Usually this technology is
expensive to adopt and takes time to learn but there
is at least one free online webinar service:
AnyMeeting.com
