katie mcmahon's List: Collaboration

A virtual 'wall' to post ideas! Very cool for communication with parents, students, and/or co-workers. NO user registration required-just click and type:)

An article-blog-essay- in 140 characters or less! I use Twitter everyday as a source of professional development. You can also use it to share information about your class to your parents-set up a class account. On Twitter? Follow me mcmahon_k

Skype is beginning a Skype for Educators aspect of their tool. Want to Skype with a class in Tokyo? Moscow? Lima? Use the educators' Skype directory to find them and Skype-away!

Allows collaboration to work on one document (from different computers) simultaneously. Highlighting techniques identify separate individual's contributions. You can export as a Word document!

NCVPS is a national leader in online learning. There resources are purely 21st century tools! The more you explore these tools, the more you will find. The director's blog is here: http://www.thevlc.org/ .

A fantastic blog with fantastic posts to help facilitate true inquiry in the classroom. There are a multitude of realistic ideas to implement immediately with your students.

Heidi Hayes Jacobs is the leader in curriculum mapping and implementation of curriculum for today's students. This is the link to her LiveBinder that is everything and anything you wanted to know about Twitter for Educators in the 21st century. (I have also posted a link to LiveBinder a couple weeks ago--awesome tool!)

From Shout's homepage: Shout invites educators and students to take an active role in global environmental issues. Connect online with experts in the field, share ideas, and collaborate with people around the world committed to solving environmental challenges.