Last week in class we learned about a few collaborative technologies that could be used in the classroom or in the workplace. First I would like to say that I think that the idea of any collaboration tools, or in this case technologies, is great. As a future teacher, I already know that I want to do as much collaborating as I can with my teaching colleagues and any others who can give me feedback and advice, and if there are tools out there that can make this happen I definitely want to learn about them.
The first program we learned about it called Notemesh. This is a free service that can be used by both teachers and students to expand on each other's ideas and thoughts. It is basically a wiki where questions or topics can be posted by teachers or students, and then others can respond by posting their thoughts. Users can add on or edit other users' responses, ultimately creating posts that could potentially have many different perspectives and ideas. The only thing that I didn't like about this tools was that with each new post, the editor of the previous post was erased. Therefore, there is no way to know or track down the person who posted a certain idea that you might have particularly liked.
One more tool that we learned about that I especially liked was Yugma. With Yugma, many people can be connected from the comfort of their own home or if they are at different offices and hold meetings and/or presentations. One "presenter" is chosen, and all people who are connected to the group can see the presenters desktop and what they have pulled up on it. Other members of the group can also edit whatever the presenter has pulled up and chatting is also available. This technology would be good to use by people who are working offsite or are unable to attend an important meeting or presentation. In schools, it could be used for study sessions or as a teacher-student help session.
Thursday, November 8, 2007
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