Lesson 1:

ICT Tools for

Collaboration and
Sharing Resources
01 Identify the relevance of LEARNING
OUTCOMES
collaboration in real-life situations.

02 Participate in the exploration of

ICT tools for collaboration.

Use innovative technological tools for

03 collaboration in the development of
mathematics and science learning.
Online Collaboration
Tools to Facilitate a
Professional Learning
Community
 The use of text-based cat in
an online math or science
community has beed seen as an
advantage both for teachers and
students when they are able to
collaborate their ideas and thoughts
Text-based Chat regarding mathematics and science
topics which are abstract and
difficult.
 Skype
Allows for a more free-
flowing conversation and require
less preparation for the
facilitators.
 In Wimba, you can
share audio, push
PowerPoint slides, push
websites and share your
desktop

Wimba Live
Classroom
 Google+
Hangouts
Allows for video of all of the
participants, the ability to share
documents via links in the chat window
or sharing directly through Window
docs.
 Zoom.us
Allows for high definition,
multi-point video and audio.
 Web-based platform that
allows users to easily create
and play interactive, multiple-
choose-style games.
Research
Collaboration
Tools
Research Collaboration Tools

One of the significant activities that can be

done together by mathematics or science teachers
and students is to do research. As they do research
together, the opportunity to share resources and
inputs can be aided by technological tools.
1. SciLink
(http://www.scilink.com)
-this is a free
networking community
that focuses on science
researchers.
2. Epernicus
(http://www.epernicus.com)
-it is a professional
networking and expertise locator
for current and former research
scientists. It also provides private
networking platforms available to
individual institutions through
their Epernicus Solutions services.
3. RefWorks- COS Research
Support Suite
(http://www.cos.com/) and
(http://www.csa.com)
-this subscription-based
product is actually a suite of tools
designed to provide support
throughout the entire research
process.
4. Research Crossroads
(http://www.researchcrossroad
s.org)
-this is designed to
provide transparent access to
publicly funded research,
Research Crossroads aggregates
funding, publication, clinical
trial, and grant data from
government and private research
agencies.
5. SciVee (http://www.scivee.tv)
-it is a multimedia
community that provides social
networking, collaboration and
communication applications for
publishers, societies and
researchers-accros K-12 to
professional levels.
6. PLoS ONE
(http://www.plosone.org)
-was launched in 2006 as
an international, peer-reviewed,
open-acces publication of f the
Public Library of Science
(PLoS).
7. Connotes (http://www.connotea.org),
CiteULike (http://www.citeulike.org),
and 2Collab (http://www.2collab.com)
-several of the top soci
bookmarking tools designed to handle
reference management are produced by
major publishing groups, including
Connotea, a product of the Nature
Publishing Group, CiteULike from
Springer, and 2Collab from Elsevier.
Overall, these tools also share a few
common design features, including:
a. One-click browser buttons
b. Tagging with keywords
c. user profiles
Recommendations for
Effetively Employing
Online Collaborations
Tools (OCTSs) in
Teaching
1. Carefully Select Specific Instructional
Technologies.
1.1. Start-up costs
1.2. IT support
1.3. Tool overload
1.4. Accesibility

Recommendations for Effetively Employing Online

Collaborations Tools (OCTSs) in Teaching
 2. Protect Students and Their Privacy.
3. Resist the Myth of “The Tech-Savvy
Student”.
4. Develop Guidelines for Equitable and
Inclusive Participation.
5. Actively Foster and Sustain Desired
Student Engagement.
Recommendations for Effetively Employing Online
Collaborations Tools (OCTSs) in Teaching
Additional Online
Collaboration Tools and
Applications for Teaching and
Learning (Chad Hershock)
 Blogger

 Post text, images, audio, video.

 Respond to posts.
 Private or public.

Calendar

 Manage multiple calendars.

 Subscribe to exixting calendars.
 “Smart” scheduling by querying
availability.
 Docs

 Synchronous/asynchronous
collaborative authoring/editing.
 Commenting
 Synchronous text chat while
editing.
 Document sharing.
 Version Control
 Organized by “collections” for
easy search and retrieval.
 Google+Hangouts

 Video conferencing with multiple

participants.
 Social networking.

Moderator

 Create backchannels during

lectures, seminars, and
presentations.
 audience may submit and vote on
questions or ideas.
 Sites

 Collaborative website creation.

 Private or public.

Box

 Store, organize, and share large

files.
 Tag and search
 Commnet on files
 Create editable task lists at the
level of files.
 Piazza

 Wiki-style discussion forum to

ask and answer questions.
 Instructor can endorse an answer.
 Editor supports equations.
 Tag and search posts.
 Generate report of site activity.
Thank you!