Research





 **Summary:** A practical resource that poses two key questions to ask when considering a project:  Judi Harris provides a useful summary of the research in this area to aid us in examining when a project is and is not worth taking on. 
 * Source:** Judi Harris - Research Summary
 * Subject:**  [|Is It Worth It? -Can we involve our students in effective online collaborative learning projects?]
 * Will this use of the Internet enable students to do something that they could not do before?
 * Will this use of the Internet enable students to do something now that they could do before but can do better now?



**Summary:**  Effective collaboration tools and their nature and characteristics are discussed in this EDUCAUSE white paper. It points out some useful educational applications of the web 2.0 tools and provides some questions for educators to ask when choosing the right tool for their purpose. 
 * Source:**  EDUCASE - Article 
 * Subject:**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: blue;">[| Collaboration Tools]

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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Source:** <span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="wiki_link_ext"> Terry Freedman - Article <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Subject:** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: blue;">[| Web 2.0 Projects] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">**Summary:** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> This PDF contains a list of Web 2.0 technology compiled by ICT Consultant and writer Terry Freedman. Teachers have described how they used them, and where possible offer websites illustrating their use. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: blue;">

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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(29, 1, 1);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Source:** <span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="wiki_link_ext"> FutureLab - Project <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Subject:** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: blue;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> [| Why Don't You... Network?] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">** Summary: ** Why Don't You - Create digital networks that link to experts and peers beyond the classroom. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This project explores some of the tools that help conversations take place between the classroom and the community; approaches that bring people together to collaborate, and prompts for thinking about new ways that learners (of all ages) can come together at times appropriate to them. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> **Source** : [|SICTAS : Collaboration in Teaching and Learning, Education.au.] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(29, 1, 1);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Subject:** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: blue;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">** collaboration in teaching and learning - strategic ICT advisory service Summary: ** Australian report published in 2009 that focuses on the information and communications technologies (ICT) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> that enable collaborative learning to happen online. The report also looks at the theories that underpin collaborative learning, the skills necessary for its success, the implications of collaborative learning on teaching practice, on students, and the spaces in which learning occurs. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">