An overview of some useful product (and product types) that can help teachers work with collaborative tools that they can access from multiple locations. Provides images and overviews. Although this list is not comprehensive, there are many links to applications that are in use and that can serve as examples for ways these very open-ended tools can be used.

1. ©Baywood Publishing Company
O’Connor, E. A. , A survival guide from an early
adopter: how Web 2.0 and the right attitude can
enable learning and expansive course design.
Journal of Educational Technology Systems. 2011.

2.  Assumptions/ definitions
 Overview of teacher-useful applications:
 eBookmarking
 Shared documents
 Websites / wikis / blogs
 Self video taping – YouTube
 Highlights of “others”
A publication provided with tips and caution
 Links to tutorials & animations; make your own

3. Learning is best when
knowledge is constructed
There are Learning is
many messy
intelligences (Piaget)
Helping is good (Vygotsky)

4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing
Cloud computing is the
delivery of computing as a
service rather than a product,
whereby shared resources,
software, and information are
provided to computers and
other devices as a utility (like
the electricity grid) over a
network (typically the Internet).

5. Internet
based
Open to text,
Free, for
image, video,
basic
often
Available to
With settable
other users,
permissions
as an option
Interactive, Easy-to-use,
often sort of

6.  Accessible from any computer with internet
 Permissions can be set to give access from All 
None
 Free for the basic features – often without
advertising too; additional $$$ for advanced
 Shareable – with colleagues, students, parents
 Makes your work more efficient . . . and fun!!!
 DISADVANTAGE: you gotta’ learn it; IT CHANGES

7. E-
bookmarking
Video saving
MindMapping
(YouTube)
Posters Doc sharing
(Glogster) (Google docs)
Websites /
wikis

8.  Among the participants, who uses this? And
why?
 e-bookmarking: www.diigo.com
 Capture, store, catalog, & share web links & e-
resources
 Save articles from e-library & collections
 Share research & good websites quickly & easily

9. http://www.diigo.com/user/eoconnor1

10. http://www.diigo.com/user/eoconnor1

11.  Tags can help to keep track
of the content of the
bookmarks
Share good resources with
others 
http://www.diigo.com/user/eoconnor1

13. GOOGLE DOC: SHARING A DOCUMENT,
SPREADSHEET, POWERPOINT (PRESENTATION)
 Keep notes for yourself on different computers –
at home & at school
 Share with colleagues and students
 Track the revisions
 Check progress & participation
 Make attractive materials using internet
 Helpful when funding is limited
 Similar to Microsoft, but less
 An example within a Google Site that is public
 https://sites.google.com/site/teachingscience2011/

14. GOOGLE DOCS: GENERATE MANY DIFFERENT
TYPES OF SHARED RESOURCES

15. GOOGLE DOCS: OPTIMIZE FOR YOUR
NEEDS, FOR EXAMPLE

17. Nothing new here;
but very useful
Communications
Determine who Establish levels – w/ students,
can see & who of permissions parents,
can edit the community
website -
interactivity
You can review who is
submitting work Ensure that all are
participating –
accountability &
assessment

19. And who
can do
what
https://sites.google.com/site/teachingscience2011/

20. https://sites.google.com/site/teachingscience2011/

21. https://sites.google.com/site/teachingscience2011/

22. Upload yourself – YouTube &
others

23. Control the interface, and the
comments

24. Us teachers like YouTube SO
MUCH we annoy others
An unlisted video on a
research project
A video on a project
A teaching exemplar
This student made a video to go
along with a project on mining
All are viewable except the first one

28. Keep images /
Make it i.e, let ALL see names separate
public homework - use common
sense
Keep it Or live with the
You can
enhance as you
simple template
grow
Apply
Spreadsheet Website for a
outside the calendar school project
box
Create a
They want to
Ask a kid help
learning
community

29. Try Try
Try

30. Many tutorials and animations are available through:
http://www.interactivelearningsolutions.net/te/MAT-
science.html
A link to an ESC internal document on learning web 2.0
technologies that will be published in the Journal of
Educational Technology Systems