Online Collaboration and Teaching

 

In 2020, we shared a list of online resources for online collaboration  and teaching when many teachers were going online to teach for their first time. This list is an archive of that resource.

For perspective: Our Zoom Pre-Flight Checklist and Things to Think About

Core Online Collaboration and Teaching Tools

Tools and Steps to Build Interaction

  • Feedback
  • Whiteboards
    • Available in some Videoconference tools, including Zoom
    • Adding student roles of Searching, Creating Context, Creating Wiki conversations (from Howard Rheingold’s work – http://peeragogy.github.io/realtime.html)
  • PowerPoint/Keynote alternatives
    • Mindmapping and unrolling the presentation and links
    • Prezi to move across and zoom in (and greenscreen yourself so it can appear on top of your image)
  • Audio environment additions
    • “Pre-show music” via Spotify or other playlist — set the tone for the meeting and conversation – let people come into the video space early to music and a graphic or whiteboard to sign in
      • UberConference has funny conference play-in music by default
    • Tones for shifting to next phase of a course – creating a routine or ritual
  • Student Pair/Shares and Co-Teaching each other
  • Remote guest speakers (in their fuzzy slippers from home!) via Zoom or other platforms; or record via Zoom or other at other times so they can be asynchronous guests
  • Group Annotation of the Web – https://web.hypothes.is/
  • Shared bookmarking of resources – Diigo.com

Collaborative Space and Connection Options – larger list at Robin Good’s ZEEF amazing alternatives of Online Collaboration Tools – https://online-collaboration-tools.zeef.com/robin.good

  • Google Docs to co-write while using audio chat
  • Trello – project management – dashboard for online space links – plus a thoughtful guide on how to work together remotely
  • Slack – shared threaded collaboration and communication
  • Edmodo (LMS) – with collaboration space (closed Sept. 22, 2022)
  • Mighty Networks – social network spaces, including classes

Links to Master Lists

Insightful Thought Leaders

  • Howard Rheingold – www.openlearning.cc – see also Peeragogy Project, www.peeragogy.org and CI Collaboratory www.cicolab.org
  • Rena Palloff
  • Chris Argyris – http://pds8.egloos.com/pds/200805/20/87/chris_argyris_learning.pdf
  • Bryan Alexander (@BryanAlexander) – https://bryanalexander.org/
    • Future of Education Observatory – http://futureofeducation.us/
    • Future Trends Forum – https://bryanalexander.org/the-future-trends-forum/;
    • Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bryanalexander
    • His recent pieces about “futuring” and pandemics – https://bryanalexander.org/futures/coronavirus-and-the-world-how-futurists-have-been-working-on-this-kind-of-thing-for-years/
  • Peter Block
    • Community: The Structure of Belonging – https://www.amazon.com/Community-Structure-Belonging-Peter-Block/dp/1523095563 – “tackles the hysteric rise of isolation and fear in a digitally interconnected world“
  • Donella Meadows
    • Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System – http://www.donellameadows.org/wp-content/userfiles/Leverage_Points.pdf
    • Great visuals  – http://donellameadows.org/a-visual-approach-to-leverage-points/
  • Nafeez Ahmed
    • Coronavirus, Synchronous Failure, and the Global Phase-Shift – https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/coronavirus-synchronous-failure-and-the-global-phase-shift-3f00d4552940

Unique Thought Spaces