Collaboration

**Wiki Learners...A Platform for Collaborators**

[|Lessons Learned]:


 * Consider the purpose and focus of your collaboration.
 * Start small...encourage students to collaborate across the table. Then expand to collaboration across the hall, the district, state, and world!
 * Design your collaborative activities to enrich and expand student learning and thinking (model, model, model and use common language to communicate)
 * Working collaboratively was the most DIFFICULT task the students tackled this year!
 * The learning and work really did extend beyond the classroom in TIME and DISTANCE...


 * Examples: **


 * Wiki Collaborative Tools:**

Discussion Tabsand Discussion Forums (pros and cons) Example of Literature Circles with Discussion TABS Example of Literature Circles with Google GROUPS


 * Google Collaborative Tools:**

Class Blog Poetry Blog

Interest Journals - Google Groups

Award-Winning Books Recommendations

Backchannel Collaboration - Cover it Live

Reading Discussions/Collaboration:
 * Use a Wiki Platform (page) as a base for Google Group Discussions
 * Hamill Discussion Group
 * Tia
 * Anna
 * Some tips for setting up Google Group Discussions
 * [[file:Using Google Groups.pptx]]

Cross-classroom Writing Collaboration : Amelia Amanda Keely Peter
 * Sixth grade students' revision activity...


 * Collaborative Writing** **LPS "Google Girls" Presentation**: inspired Learning Conference

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 * Collaboration Templates**...A way to transform any doc into a collaborative area for students...see Lauri's presentation below