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5 Tech Tools for Classroom Collaboration

Instructor: Jonaldo V. Dedace

"Collaboration is essential in our classrooms because it is inherent in

the nature of how work is accomplished in our civic and workforce
lives. Fifty years ago, much work was accomplished by individuals
working alone, but not today. Much of all significant work is
accomplished in teams, and in many cases, global teams."

Here are some of our favorite tech tools for facilitating collaboration and
fueling innovation in the classroom:

1. Google Apps for Education

The Google Drive apps enable students and teachers to collaborate more
effectively on papers, spreadsheets, and presentations. The beauty of
the Google Suite for Education is: several people can contribute
simultaneously, so it’s truly designed for collaboration. There is a limit of
50 simultaneous collaborators for Google Docs and Sheets, so there’s
space for an entire class. There is a limit of 200 total viewers and editors
in Google Docs and Sheets.

Another great feature of Google Apps is that they automatically save your
work, so students’ work will never be lost. There’s also never a need to
keep several iterations of a document because the revision history
feature allows you to revert to previous versions of the document (to find
revision history: go to the File menu and select “See revision history”).
2. Kahoot:

Kahoot is a game-based classroom response system that gives educators

an engaging way to test the knowledge of their students. Teachers and
educators LOVE Kahoot...and we even use it at our GoGuardian team
meetings and Harry Potter trivia contests (yes we are that nerdy).
Kahoot can be used to boost collaboration through encouraging
students to be the leaders and “quiz-makers”: to research, create, and
present their own quizzes to the class.

3. FlipGrid:

FlipGrid is a video discussion community for your classroom that uses student voices to
promote collaboration, discussion, and engagement. With FlipGrid, you can type a
question and create a link for a “grid”. Students respond to the question in video format
(kids get to be the “talking heads”) and are added to the “grid” of all the responses.
FlipGrid is a great way to build the communicational skills of your students, while
facilitating collaboration.

4. MindMeister:

MindMeister is a collaborative web-based tool that enables groups to brainstorm on one

“mind map” document during the early phases of group work. Students can continue to
use the document for collaborating during the course of a project. MindMeister teaches
students to work as a team to manage and plan projects effectively, and to break
complex tasks down into smaller, more manageable parts.

5. Google Hangouts:

Google Hangouts is a great way to bring remote groups of students

together to communicate and collaborate. With Google Hangouts,
inviting a guest speaker into the classroom has never been easier
….Google Hangouts enables anyone from around the world to “visit” a
school. You can also use Hangouts on Air to record video, so you can
record the day’s class and post a link to it on your class’ website for
students that were absent. Google Hangouts is also a great vehicle for
 connecting and collaborating with other classrooms...within your own
school or across the globe!

Technology is transforming education, changing

how, when and where students learn, and
empowering them at every stage of their
journey.
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students’ lives.

· Gives educators access to real-time feedback through digital formative and summative
assessments and data.

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