Cooperative+or+Collaborative+Learning

=Copy this template for each resource.=  Lovie Marshall
 * Name of the Resource
 * Identify the resource as an educational website, software program (external to the Internet), or app.
 * Rate the resource on a scale of 1 to 10 and explanation of the rating (2-3 sentences).
 * Brief description of the resource and how it can is used with classroom instruction or professional development (3 - 5 sentences).
 * How does the resource align with instructional strategy examined for the week (2 - 3 sentences).
 * Sync.in
 * Cooperative learning
 * Sync.in is an online platform that is used in cooperative learning. With this platform students are able to work on the same document, at the same time and in real time. This means students are working on the same project at the same time.
 * On a scale of 1-10 I would rate Sync.in 7.0. Some of the perks that come with the platform are the elimination of cutting/pasting and the attaching of documents back and forth. Students can also check out previous histories and they are able to chat in real time.
 * The platform helps teachers organize cooperative learning in small groups that he/she can manage. Also the platform makes learning fun to many students because of its interactive nature.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX44143865" style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,Serif; font-size: 16px;">The Apps’ instructional and overall objectives are geared towards cooperative learning as students can be do multiple tasks as a group on the app. The app is said to be a one-stop-shop for students to do multiple tasks such as work on the same document, at the same time, in real time.

Samantha Garrett


 * [|Doodletoo]
 * Educational Website and also available as an app
 * 8. I would give this website an 8 because it allows for opportunity for students to collaborate; however, there is almost too much opportunity. Without creating an account I viewed the webpage and it is designed like a chat room before signing in. This could be problematic without proper and adequate supervision.
 * This website and app allows multiple students to log in on separate devices but work together in live time. Students can draw, write, or even chat together. This could be used in the classroom in a variety of ways. This could be used in groups projects where students are working toward a common goal. I might also use this to pair struggling math students up with "mentor" students. The struggling math student could use this website as a scaffold with the help from his or her mentor. The same as with the teacher and the students. Teachers could assign problems and use this resource as a way to provide additional guided practice opportunities.
 * Doodletoo aligns with cooperative and collaborative learning because more than one students can be working together to support each other and arrive at a common goal. Students are afforded the opportunity to learn from one another and not just the teacher delivering the information.

Stephanie Fletcher Heather Fortner <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Richard Bruce
 * Google Classroom
 * Educational Website (also an app)
 * Rating: I give this website a 9.5 rating. I rated this website so high because it is very user friendly and easy to use in the classroom. It is also free for teachers and students. It helps teachers and students save time, stay organized, communicate, and go paperless!
 * Description of website: Google classroom saves time because students do not have to share an assignment with a teacher because it will automatically be shared when they click on the document. It saves the teacher time from organizing shared documents into appropriate folders. It helps both the students and teacher stay organized because everything is in one place. Students and teachers can communicate and work cooperatively on a document.
 * Aligns with Instructional Strategy: This website makes a great tool for collaborative learning because students can respond to each and work together on an assignment. They could be working with google docs or slides to complete an assignment together. There is also an option for the students to answer a question… I have my students answer the question then allow others to see their responses. I require the students to add to what someone else said and provide feedback. This allows the students to learn from one another and be collaborative.
 * Google Classroom
 * Educational Website (also an app)
 * Rating: I would give this app a 10 because I am in love with the collaboration you are able to do with this program. My students love how easy it is to do assignments individually, small group or even whole class. It is really a virtual classroom and everyday more and more programs are becoming aligned with google classroom.
 * Description: Google classroom is a program which creates a virtual classroom where teachers can give announcements, assignments and grades. It is great for projects or even just daily assignments. It is a great platform for a 1:1 school where you can have a central place to give out information and assignments to every student at once.
 * Aligns: This is a great tool for collaborative learning because students and teachers can work together to creat assignments, give feedback and sometimes just talk. I have done quite a few projects in the past and whenever a student gets stuck on something whether it be at home or in class they can send me a message and we can talk it out right away. It also is a great platform for all of the google apps which are designed and are collaborative.


 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">[|Skype]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Software Program, App
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">8 - Skype is a program designed to help people collaborate and communicate across the world through a technology called VOIP (Voice over IP). The cool part is that students can create avatars, share their screens, update their status and search for friends. While it can be a great tool for connecting and collaborating, perhaps its biggest drawback is reliability. A GOOD internet connection is necessary and it may not fit every teacher’s need for a digital classroom.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">I think the best way to use Skype is for group projects where everyone has an equal say in how the project is run and how it will work. Another possibility is to use Skype to collaborate with coworkers or to do presentations before a group of people. I used Skype to do a presentation of the learning management system Moodle for my boss last week, for example.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Skype aligns with cooperative or collaborative learning because it allows for real-time, cross-platform communication from any two devices anywhere in the world. There is nothing more Jetsons-esque than talking to someone in Thailand on your watch! Students can use it to share what they’ve learned, meet with the teacher and communicate with classmates. Fits the bill perfectly.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Michael Perez


 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">[|BuildwithChrome]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Software Program
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">9 - Build with Chrome is a program where students can use their imagination, creativity and explore different builds of Legos. The program can be played in stages or you can just have fun and build your own building, car, plane, etc. whatever you can think of right on your computer screen. One of the best features is the one where you can build anything somewhere in the country and it will stay there. Sounds confusing but if you go on the website and click "enter the world of build" you get a choice of where in the world you want to leave your mark. You can rotate the pieces and add all kinds of attachments like windows, doors, etc.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> I love this program for my students because they get really engaged can work cooperatively and you can see them communicating and putting ideas together, and you can see them get excited when the build starts to come together. There are endless possibilities and by students working in small groups you can see the interaction, motivation and students who usually don't speak up, barking out commands on how to make the building more structurally sound, how to put a peak on a roof. It's crazy the designs you can make. In class I sometimes will divide the room into groups of 3 and have them go to the start to build section where it challenges the student to make a copy of what they see.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Build with Chrome aligns with cooperative or collaborative learning because it allows for students to work together and build off of each students creativity and imagination. You will see groups cross over with other groups to see what they are building and sometimes they will have ideas that could help their build. Motivation is high with this program because you can see students wanting to outdo their classmates and build something extraordinary even though it is not a competition. You will see unique skills and talents come out of each student and with my Special Education students some of them get really focused and build skyscrapers or bridges, they get extremely involved and it really helps their learning.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Rachel Schwartz


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">[|Jigsaw]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Educational Website
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">9.5- I ranked Jigsaw as a 9.5 because everything about the website encourages collaboration amongst students. Students aren’t able to cause distractions. All of the students need to work together in order to accomplish a task or an assignment. Everyone is important and no one would feel eft out.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The website’s main goal is to force collaboration with students. All of the projects are done online. It is important for each individual student to listen to their classmates in order to learn everything that is being presented. The website gave an example of a history class. The students are all split into groups where each group member is assigned a certain role. Before the students present back to their groups they will first present and share with student from other groups that needed to research the same topic. Once everyone has shared then they return to their original groups and present their findings.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Jigsaw aligns with cooperative and collaborative learning because the students need to work together to accomplish a goal or to finish an assignment. This website requires each individual student to be responsible for their part of the assignment and then come back to the group and share. By the end of the assignment everyone has the same understanding on a topic as the presenter does.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Leighton Nelson


 * [|GitHub]
 * Website
 * 10 - This website provides both individuals and teams to work together on a project without any location constraints.
 * GitHub is a version control platform, which helps developers to collaborate on projects. Code can be added, updated or pushed or pulled by people who have access to a particular project. In addition, there is the ability to make project private or public. One benefit of GitHub, is that the public domain can be accessed by anyone and is often used as a learning resource which helps users to solve a coding problems.
 * It aligns with collaboration and cooperation, because it often requires team involvement to complete a development project. Teams are not constrained by location and are able to make changes to any part of a coding project, test and validate it, before promoting it back without the fear of corrupting the project. This is very helpful in the workplace, because it helps developers to be more productive.

Greg Hodges


 * [|Trello.com]
 * Website, App
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">10 - Trello is a website/app that can be used by students by groups in order to stay on top of different tasks as they work on a group project or projects. It is great for projects that require a large amount of work from different resources and can be used with uploaded files or files linked from other productivity websites. Additionally, it serves as a checklist for students as they are working.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Trello is great to use when you are compiling a list of different activities needed to be completed in order to finish a project. Students can use this to make sure individual tasks are completed as they work towards a shard goal. It is easy to post pictures and documents for others to check and review. It can be used in conjunction with Google Docs/Drive, Evernote, Slack, and Github. Students can use this as a landing page for a multimedia, multi-format project.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Trello aligns with cooperative or collaborative learning because it lets student collaborate with each other and keep track of tasks that are needed to complete an assignment. In addition to be a useful way to organize a project, it also allows students to share their work with group members and comment on each other's completed work. It can be accessed on computers or mobile, making it easy for group members to keep track of their work from any place at any time.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Robin Kennedy (Elder)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">[|Microsoft One Drive]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">Website, app, cloud file sharing
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">10 - Microsoft One Drive offers users a collaborative space to store and share documents. Users can upload or save documents directly to their secure One Drive space and assign access rights to individuals or groups. One Drive can be configured to synchronize with files stored on a local computer, thus creating a way to access files with other devices, eliminating the need for a user to be tied to a desktop computer.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">Users can work on a document simultaneously. Each user can see the modifications and actions of another user in real time. In a collaborative or learning environment, users can leverage One Drive's sharing tools to work together on any type of document or multimedia presentation. This is especially useful when joining teams across time zones or continents in that they can all work on the same documents and see each other's changes immediately.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">Microsoft One Drive aligns with collaborative learning because users can interact with and modify documents and presentations together in the same space. One Drive allows all who have access to view the modifications in real time so everyone can see the changes or comments. Changes are also saved in real time so work is not lost. One drive is also available via any browser, making it independent of device restrictions.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">Nathan Schwartz


 * Google Drive
 * Google Drive is website with cloud sharing.
 * I would give Google Drive a 10. It is a wonderful resource to use when working someone that is not in the same area as you. Students can work together through docs, sheet, etc. without even speaking with each other.
 * People can you drive to complete projects without being together. Students like the fact they can write papers and share them with other students or myself to be edited. Students can also make comments on docs to help each other be successful. Best thing about drive, I believe, is being able to give other peers to the ability to write on the same doc, slide, or sheet.
 * Users are able to give editable rights to other students so they can work on a given task without being together. They are able to effectively complete projects by working on docs, slides, sheets, etc.


 * Victoria Putvin **


 * Wikispaces www.wikispaces.com
 * Website
 * 8-While creating a Wiki costs money, only the person creating it has to pay, those just joining the group can do so for free which is great. Another downside is that if intend to use it to use for students at home, not all students have internet access at home.
 * This site seems like a great way for teachers to create a free site for their classroom to use. Teachers could post things such discussion topics, homework assignments, and resources for the students. Students can then communicate with other students through the discussion boards.
 * Since Wikispaces allows anyone with access to the site to edit the page, it is a great source of cooperative learning. Much in the same was as the site is used for our EDU590 course, students can take place in discussions, communicate with group members on a project, as well as submit work for feedback.

Matthew Novak
 * Mimio Mobile [|learning app]
 * Program and license for all students programs
 * 9- Mimio Mobile learning app costs 200 for educators. Which is negative, because it is a high price to pay if you seldom use technology in your classroom. The ability that you can assess students on the fly is nice, but I know are a ton of assessment apps out there that are free. As an educator who lives in a district with little to no money, I am unsure of how this technology would be purchased. Overall, it seems promising that you can show and share students work on the board separately or all at once which will strengthen the collaborative process.
 * This is an app that allows students and the teacher to collaborate. Teachers after purchasing the licenses can have the students collaborate on the learning of subjects or topics. You are able to show all student's work at once, or individually. I see the effectiveness of the app is assigning separate topics for the students to cover under a broader subject. After all students have covered the topic, the class then can come together to learn the whole subject.
 * The app aligns with the instructional strategy of collaboration. It provides the teacher the opportunity for students to divide and concur when it comes to the broad idea of subjects by assigning different topics for each student to cover under the umbrella of the subject / concept

Karen A. McDonald Google Slides https://www.**google**.com/**slides**/about/ Google slide is an app that is provided by Google. Google a resource both for educational and businesses. Google Slide is free.
 * 9- Google slide allows individuals to share their presentations with others to collaborate in building an effective presentation. The teacher assigns 3-4 students in groups to create in depth a visually and text presentation showing their understanding of a particular subject.
 * Google slide is shared by sending presentations to one person to another through their email. The student can then have an option for others in their group to edit or add to the presentation. The wonderful thing about Google Slide is that the students can get very creative in how they present a subject. Google Slide has features such as animation, voiceover, uploading images and videos, and having the ability to link to sites on the web. Another feature that is helpful to students is that they can do their research on the web right from Google Slide.
 * It aligns with instructional strategy by creating the opportunity for different learning styles. Creating visual presentations can help those students who normally does not like to write, or are more of a visual learner. When the teacher offers students the ability to work in a group with their peers, can improve student’s level of understanding of a subject because students are sharing thoughts and knowledge of a particular subject.

Daniel McElheny [|TodaysMeet]
 * Educational Website
 * 10 - TodaysMeet describes itself as a "backchannel chat platform for classroom teachers and learners." TodaysMeet describes the backchannel as the "conversation that goes alongside the primary activity, presentation, or discussion." I give this website a high mark because it is versatile, can be used in a variety of different contexts, and it is free. The teacher has the ability to moderate the discussion (delete comments or mute participants) and can print out a transcript after the discussion is complete.
 * TodaysMeet can be used as a tool to promote increased classroom participation and engagement. It could be used as a quiet way for students to ask questions and engage during group presentations. It could be used as a way to formatively assess the learning of students. Using this website for classroom discussions can give students time to read the thoughts of their classmates, reflect, and then craft a meaningful response of their own. TodaysMeet can also be used to extend learning outside of the classroom - I stumbled across this website as I was preparing a Presidential Debate lesson and activity for my high school government class. I will use it as a way for us to have a "live chat" where students can ask clarifying questions and make observations about how the debate relates to content covered in class.
 * According to Pitler, Hubbell, and Kuhn "cooperative learning provides an environment where students can reflect upon newly acquired knowledge, process what they are learning by talking with and actively listening to peers, and develop common understanding about the topics (73)." This description offered in our textbook sounds exactly like how I plan to use TodaysMeet during tomorrow night's debate coverage. Students can engage with each other to connect what they are watching to content covered in class. TodaysMeet is the perfect tool to achieve the goal described in our text.
 * Reference: Pitler et al. //Using Technology with Classroom Instruction that Works.// Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning, 2012.

**DAWN PAINE** = **BoardThing** = [] (currently in a beta version, by invite) Educational website (a virtual collaboration board) My rating 8 out of 10.
 * The first thing that springs to mind when considering the application of BoardThing was all about “post it notes” in lots of different colors. I can see a ton of applications, and as of this week, the website is new to me.
 * Anything you could do on a pinup board, shifting around index cards, you can do on BoardThing.
 * Since it is in its beta version still, there is likely more to come. I’ll be on the lookout to see how BoardThing develops:)


 * Brief description of the Resource and how it can is used with classroom instruction** (3 - 5 sentences)
 * Foreign language teachers could build vocabulary boards, colorized by SUBJECT/NOUN, VERB, PREPOSITIONS, and OBJECT. The students could collaborate to create sentences that make sense using a colored Post-it from each category.
 * Drama teachers could use it to have students collaborate on screenwriting, working together to create the arc of a story, and developing the storyline via broken down components, just like if they wrote down notes on index cards and pinned them on a cork board in front of the classroom.
 * BoardThing can be used simply. It also can be used more robustly. Cards can be organized in groups. Cards (as well as the base Board) can carry images. There is a pen and eraser tool, where you can “doodle”, make notations, or the instructor can “pen” the feedback directly on the students’ collaborative board.


 * How does the resource align with collaborative learning** (2 - 3 sentences)
 * It’s like a virtual edition of “building blocks” where each of the team members takes a turn adding blocks to the “building” (whatever the topic they’re learning may be). Each student adds value to the learning equation. They can bond over their shared ideas, or the new ideas they created because they’re collaborating!
 * I have always played a similar game with my nieces, where we all create a character for ourselves, and in round robin style, we tell each other about our character. Then we figure out how some of our characters may know each other (the ballerina might have met the doctor because she twisted her ankle last year)… and so the stories intertwine. We’ve always document our collaborative stories in a memory book. Great fun!
 * The visual nature of BoardThing will also help with information retention, especially for the visual learners.
 * Students can better when they can create, and learn through the creation process. Active learning at its best when 5 brains in collaboration are better than one going solo.


 * Adam Dickinson
 * [|Faronics Insight]
 * Software Program
 * 10. I have had a long and lovely relationship with Faronics Insight. I was able to introduce Insight to a community college I worked at several years ago. It was widely accepted as it is easy to use and has a lot of great options. I always used it when I taught in computer labs.
 * Faronics Insight is computer lab management software. It allows the instructor to monitor, collaborate, test and assist students through their computers. While many of the lab management softwares available allow monitoring of the student computers, this software allows instructors to create and administer tests in real time, chat with students, show the teacher screen or a student screen to all or select machines and so much more.
 * This technology aligns with collaborative learning as Insight gives student the ability to show what they are working on to the whole class, or select groups. It also allows for easy interaction between the student and instructor without interrupting the rest of the class.