Online Collaboration

Collaboration, cooperation, association, organization, combination, amalgamation, integration, assimilation, adaptation, collaboration, or any way you want to look at, the WWW has it all for working together. 

Discussions - One common way to communicate as part of a class is to participate in the discussions. I like how it keeps very good track of who replies to who and it keeps it all in one place. Discussions are a great way to hear other people's opinions and learn from what they say. I think that setting up a discussion for my classroom parents would be a great way for them to keep in touch with each other about what's going on in school. They may be able to set up partner or group study sessions.Or they may just be able to help clarify content for each other.

Pirate Pad - The Pirate Pad is a cool way to create a quick and slick method of communication with others. Beware though, it is public and anyone can stumble onto it. It is interesting to type in random names to see what comes up. I found one that was written in a different language. 

Projects - I love how projects can be worked on by multiple people on the Google docs. I think this will be an asset this year for my new team. We can create documents that we can all use and we can edit them together as a team. I love it!

email, gmail, younameitmail. - I seriously need to carry around an address book with all of my own addresses now, let alone my friends. I am sure this will get easier as I use what I have more often. Maybe my cell phone notepad would work for this. Would that be safe?

There are so many ways to collaborate online. With my one group, I gave a final farewell to one member via  clarion email, and she gave me one via gmail. That is when it can get kind of messy is when there are too many places and you might not check every place every day so you might miss something. I think a better word for Google would have been Boggle (overcome with astonishment).