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When I first looked at this topic, I thought to myself “I know what collaboration means but I don’t know what exactly collaboration tools mean.” For some reason I was thinking that maybe this was something like with the chrome books, laptops, and iPads. They are tools that you can use in the classroom that can help you all collaborate together. Some things that I would like to know are when can I integrate these in the classroom and what they are just in general. Also, if they need Wi-Fi how will all my students to able to access them outside of school.
Some things that I learned through preparing for class was actually understanding what collaboration tools are. Looking at the list of websites teachers and students can sign up for, I had never heard of several of them. After clicking on the link and looking at the websites I was able to understand what collaborating tools were. I learned there are multiple different websites that the students can learn from. One of the websites I enjoyed was ThingLink, this website had interesting ways to show students how to learn. Looking at the examples of what one teacher did with South Africa made me want to do this with my future classroom . Tech, Emerging Ed. "Awesome Free Ed Tech Resources EBook!" Emerging Education Technologies RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Oct. 2015. On this website they give you a list of collaboration websites that teachers and students can use during the day. Under each website they give you a description of what each website has to offer. This is a good website because it shows several different websites that a person would never think was a collaboration tool. For instance, Minecraft is considered a collaboration tools. "Collaborative Tools." Cooltoolsforschools -. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Oct. 2015. On this website they present you with a list of collaboration websites that teachers and students can use. This website gives you links to these websites, that way you can go right to the website. Each website has a description of what the website is used for. I believe this is a good website because it gives you multiple different websites and gives you links that go right to them. Some things that I learned in class were how to use the different websites that we signed up for. Although I explored some before class there were a couple of ones that I hadn’t looked at. For example ThingLink, I didn’t have time to explore this website before class and during class one of my classmates showed me what they came up with. I thought ThingLink was a great website to show students information in a special way. The classmate that showed me her ThingLink gave our group great information about how to do certain things. The example she gave was phenomenal is giving student information about seals in California. During our group work we were able to do hands on learning and looking at the websites. We had to look at several different websites and do what our students would do if we had this. It was interesting because each of us had to do something we had never done before. My understanding of this topic changed from the beginning because at first I had no idea what this topic was about. After preparing for class and doing hands on activities in the classroom, I was able to understand most of the websites and what they have to offer. Learning from different group members was helpful because we were able to bounce ideas off of each other and learn how to do different things. Doing hands on showed me how important this is when teaching. When we were in groups and were able to do things on the websites I was able to see how hands on activities can help students learn better. This week was probably the most fun because we were able to interact with groups and interact with websites.
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