Collaboration
TEACHING TOOLS & RESOURCES
Getting Started: A Guide to Collaboration in the Classroom (Hawaii CTE)
20 Collaborative Learning Tips And Strategies For Teachers (TeachThought)
Top 5 Ways to Teach Collaboration (Association of American Educators)
Developing Collaboration Skills (Association of Middle Level Educators)
Paideia Seminars: How to Build Student Collaboration Skills (Teaching Channel)
The Building Blocks of Collaboration: Partner and Small-Group Chats (Responsive Classroom)
Building Teamwork in STEM Classrooms (Education Week)
Building Teamwork Process Skills in Students (Berkeley Center for Teaching and Learning)
How Technology Can Encourage Student Collaboration (Common Sense Media)
ASSESSMENT TOOLS & RESOURCES
Collaboration Rubrics (Catalina Foothill School District)
K-2 Teamwork Rubric (Buck Institute)
Grades 3-5 Collaboration Rubric (Buck Institute)
Grades 6-12 Collaboration Rubric (Buck Institute)
Guides to Assessing Teamwork and Collaboration (Galileo)
Importance of Collaborative Assessment in a 21st Century Classroom (Edutopia)
Assessment of Collaborative Learning Project Outcomes (Educause)
TECH TOOLS
TodaysMeet is a backchannel tool that can be used as a way for students to contribute to a discussion.
Padlet is a “virtual wall” that allows students to write a response to a discussion question, add resources for a collaborative class project, work in small groups, use it for brainstorming or connect with other students and classrooms throughout the world.
Buncee is a web based tool that can be used for creating presentations, and interactive lessons.
Piktochart is a tool for creating infographics, social media flyers, and engaging presentations.
Mural is an interactive message board tool that lets users add sticky notes to jot down ideas and organize thoughts and arrange ideas spatially. It supports multiple users.
Scoot & Doodle offers engaging environments where as many as 10 students work in virtual teams to solve problems and brainstorm solutions to educational content uploaded by teachers.
Whyville is a virtual world where children ages 8 to 15 play, explore, create and learn together.
CollaborizeClassroom is a free tool students and teachers can use for inquiry-based discussions.
FoldingStory is a group storytelling game that lets students collaborate on assignments together or contribute to existing stories on the site.