Below are three examples of Web 2.0 applications that offer opportunities for collaboration. These three tools can be easily implemented and adapted to fit almost any learning environment.
Video tutorials are also provided under each application. Many more tutorials are available at each specific site as well as YouTube.
1. Choose one option.
2. Create a blog, google account, or wiki.
3. Practice posting something you learned today to your account OR set up an application that you can use with your class.
| | Blogs | Blogs (web+log) are chronological postings. The newest blog post will appear first. Blogs can also be set to allow for comments. The blog owner can control the settings for comments as well as monitor comments.
Here are two well-known free blog websites.
| Google Apps (Google Applications)
| Google applications offer a suite of free office tools similar to Microsoft Word, Power Point, and Spread Sheets. These tools allow up to 10 users at any one time to collaborate on a project simultaneously. Up to 200 users can work as collaborators on any one document.
1. Go to the Google web site and make an account.
2. Find the Google sign in link at the top of the right side of the page.
3. Create a Google Account
4. Once you create an account, you can create a new application and invite others to "share" as collaborators.
5. Try creating an application. Invite someone here as a collaborator. You will need their email. They will ALSO need a google account to have access to the document.
How to share a Google Doc
| | Wiki |
Wiki sites:
Wikis allow you to quickly and easily create a class website that can be edited by the entire class or groups of people. You could consider having groups of students create wikis to demonstrate their learning by creating a Wiki on a specific topic. Course content could be edited and maintained over time.
Wetpaint:
Incredibly easy to create and set up.
Wikispaces
PBwiki (Free options are limited)
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