Week Nine Tech - 12 Tools for Student Collaboration
This week, Nicholas Martino has posted 12 Tech Tools for Student-to-Student Collaboration.
After a brief introduction to his THINK Global School, Martino identifies five tools that work well for his students, and then five more posted by the Teachthought editors (It is not clear why the number 12 appears in the title). I have a quick summary of the first three.
Edio is a tool build by THINK Global school that organizes project-based learning, digitally managing the labor-intensive but productive process for teachers. Students "view assignments, submit work, and check their module progress," while teachers design and administer the project's reports and transcripts.
Diigo is a social-bookmarking tool that replaces bound book and periodical resources for research. Students and teachers build a library of suggested reading and resources for separate PBL modules, and the library organizes and grows over time.
FlipGrid is a video tool that allows students to submit video responses to tasks and assignments, and also to collaborate and video converse (with the paid version). These videos can provide a flipped classroom experience, be left for comment (text or video) from other classmates or teacher assessment, or record real-time collaborations.
I shared the Diigo tool with my school librarian, and she was intrigued - she is also working in an online tech class for her librarian degree, so she will be writing a report, and she and I will look into how this could help my students with their 1984-themed research, and any number of other research projects.
I will be adding the Edio resource to my list of items to explore this summer.
And FlipGrid is a nice source for some of the common approaches to class video work that will translate nicely into the classrooms of my colleagues brave enough to let their students produce videos as coursework.
After a brief introduction to his THINK Global School, Martino identifies five tools that work well for his students, and then five more posted by the Teachthought editors (It is not clear why the number 12 appears in the title). I have a quick summary of the first three.
Edio is a tool build by THINK Global school that organizes project-based learning, digitally managing the labor-intensive but productive process for teachers. Students "view assignments, submit work, and check their module progress," while teachers design and administer the project's reports and transcripts.
Diigo is a social-bookmarking tool that replaces bound book and periodical resources for research. Students and teachers build a library of suggested reading and resources for separate PBL modules, and the library organizes and grows over time.
FlipGrid is a video tool that allows students to submit video responses to tasks and assignments, and also to collaborate and video converse (with the paid version). These videos can provide a flipped classroom experience, be left for comment (text or video) from other classmates or teacher assessment, or record real-time collaborations.
I shared the Diigo tool with my school librarian, and she was intrigued - she is also working in an online tech class for her librarian degree, so she will be writing a report, and she and I will look into how this could help my students with their 1984-themed research, and any number of other research projects.
I will be adding the Edio resource to my list of items to explore this summer.
And FlipGrid is a nice source for some of the common approaches to class video work that will translate nicely into the classrooms of my colleagues brave enough to let their students produce videos as coursework.
Kyle, these all sound like great resources to me. Diigo definitely seems like it would speed up, or at least de-stress the the research process. I agree that FlipGrid would be a bold decision on the teacher's part, but I guess no risk-no gain, right? I'm trying hard to expand my technology capabilities and now just trying to see what these apps would look like in the middle school setting. Interested to hear how you use them at X.
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