Collaboration Tools

Learning to collaborate with others and connect through technology are essential skills for the 21st Century.

1. Screencast-O-Matic – Is a free online screen recorder program. It’s an easy way to make an instant screen capture with audio of your computer desktop and share with students. "It’s useful if a student is struggling with an assignment and needs a reteach,” “or if you need to collaborate with a colleague on a project or lesson."

2. Google Drive (formerly Google Docs) - Google’s free online document creation and editing app or web tool is popular among business professionals, colleagues, teachers, instructors and students that want to collaborate “real time” online. Google Drive is a great way to share and edit documents online inside and outside of the classroom.

3. Google+ Hangouts - This free app or web tool lets users connect with friends, students, professors, and others who want to “hang out” online. The app’s video chat and group chat allows you to collaborate with one person or several people at once. Great for collaboration for co-teaching, lesson planning, or just a convenient way to host a virtual meeting.

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Ms. Dotterer's Body Systems Project

Ms. Dotterer's Living Environment Class is learning about Human Body Systems. The students have been working in Collaborative groups to create a presentation using the Explain Everything app on the iPad.  The app allows them to Screencast (Record) slides that they create with pictures, text, video, and other illustration.

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Mrs. Kenna's My Dream Job Project

Mrs. Kenna's Life Skills English Class created iBooks using the Book Creator app on the iPads. The project was to create a book to explain about  a real attainable Dream Job that they would like to get hired for when they graduate from Baker High School.  We used Barb, our NAO Robot to introduce the project to them and then the students took pictures, saved pictures from Google images, added text, and voiced in sound using the app on the iPad. Some of the students then used AssisstiveWare called Proloquo so that they could communicate with the class their Dream Job project.  

Mrs. Formoza's Photostory Project

Students in Mrs. Formoza's class and students on team 6-6 at Ray Middle School were randomly assigned an Egypt topic. After researching the topic using library books, websites and databases, each student created a digital photostory as well as created a project (map, diorama, recreation, costume, model, diagram, etc . . . ). In order to create the digital photostory, students selected pictures to go along with their researched sub topics and then orally narrated each picture. Students added the finishing touches: title and bibliography page, music, and transitions from slide to slide then students presented their creations in front of the class!

Twas the Night Before Xmas - NAO Robot

Mrs. Nahorney's 4th grade class participated in a summarization lesson of Twas the Night Before Christmas.  It was excellent!  Barb our NAO Robot introduced herself to the class, demonstrated the poem by acting it out, and then recited back the summaries of each stanza that the students wrote.  The students were partnered up to summarize one of the stanzas in the poem.  We then had the students type in their summaries, with the help of Mrs. Nahorney, into the Choregraph software that is used to program the Robot.  The students were so excited and the learning was incredible.

Watch Know Learn for APK or Flipped Classroom

Click here Watch Know Learn to check out free age appropriate educational videos for your classroom.  A great resource to Access your students Prior Knowledge on a topic or to Flip your Classroom.

Enjoy!

Video in the classroom - 21st Century