Free wikis are very very helpful in the classroom. It allows for collaboration between the students and teacher. It is easy for students to collaborate online through wikis to create projects. I have used this free technology in one of my anthropology courses and it greatly helped with project. It allowed us to be online together without having to figure out the best time for everybody to meet. This leads to the next site these lovely ladies talked about. http://typewith.me. This site is very similar to google docs. It allows users to pick different colors to type in and allows multiple people to be logged into the document at once. The main and important difference is that this site does not require an email address or login to edit the pages. This is very helpful because creating numerous email addresses for students becomes a chore. It also has a time sliding feature that allows you to view the documents progress from the beginning to end. The last site I will talk about is one that the Smithsonian is helping to run. It is an online game that is using environmental disasters to help students use the scientific method and collect samples to solve the mystery. I really love this concept as a science teacher and also love the fact that the students would be able to receive help from some scientists from all around the world. I think it is super cool. Tech Chick tips has done it once again.
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