gabriela valiente's List: reserch tools

• Collaborative environments are virtual workplaces where students and  teachers can communicate, share information, and work together.
• collaboration in education
• seek tools to facilitate group interaction and teamwork in their classes
• relatively simple tools that lend themselves to multiple simultaneous authors  all the way up to full-fledged classroom environments in both the flat web and  the 3D world of virtual environments.
• students to work with peers both local and distant, practice creative teamwork,  and develop peer relationships
• myriad
• work, social networking platforms, community websites, classroom management  systems, multiplayer gaming environments, or even virtual worlds.
• multiple people can work within them at once
• location at any time.
• geographic and time limitations that used to constrain academic interactions.  Students can work on group homework assignments with their peers whether or not  they are able to get together physically, and can receive feedback and coaching  from teachers outside of school hours, if both parties wish.
• Protection of student work as well as the responsibility for keeping students in  safe places on the web — without limiting intellectual access to high quality  sites — are both challenges schools are working to address
• teamwork and collaboration
• critical thinking in a more or less public forum, students can benefit from  seeing what their peers have to say and from critiquing each other’s work.
• Collaborative environments provide workspaces in which such activities may take  place in an open, constructive way, linked to classroom content.
• capturing and managing ideas that often come and go in student discussions at a  very fast pace.
• students and supports constructivist learning goals, but assessment can be  difficult in real time.
• global initiatives
• The benefits of collaborative environments extend to professional interactions  for teachers as well. Shared professional spaces create opportunities for  teachers to dig deeper, ask questions of their colleagues, explore projects that  others are doing, and engage in ongoing professional development wherever they  happen to be.
• the teachers can join interest groups within the larger community, post and  respond to questions, share links, and take part in deep discussions about  integrating emerging web technologies into the practice of teaching
• • Language Arts. Students at the International School of Bangkok are part of a  collaborative community made up of students from four other schools around the  world. Using blogs and podcasts to share their reading and writing strategies,  they sharpen reading and writing skills by collaboratively authoring class blogs  and producing informative podcasts for other elementary school students.  
  • Natural Sciences. Students in New York City and Chicago collaborated with  researchers in the program I Dig Tanzania, a collaboration between Global Kids  and the Field Museum of Chicago’s Biodiversity Synthesis Center. Teen Second  Life was used to support the students’ collaboration and learning about  paleontology and Tanzanian culture (see

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