Collaboration

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**Collaboration**
Global Collaboration website maintained by Northwestern University, where you can join a collaborative effort with other schools. http://collaboratory.nunet.net/cwebdocs/index.html 4th, 5th and 6th grade teachers- Spider Study in Illinois. Join other schools in Illinois, documenting spiders in your neighborhood. || http://collaboratory.nunet.net/idnrspiders/ || "a Collaboratory Project initiative funded by the McCormick Tribune Foundation that encourages Illinois youth ages 15 to 22 to vote by exploring ways to bridge the gap between civic engagement and democratic participation." (Collaboratory) || [|iVOTE!] || Rebecca Caudill Reading Club - students participate in sharing what they are reading, writing short reports, and joining book discussions with students from other schools. || [|http://collaboratory.nunet.net/sponsoredprojects/ rebeccacaudill2007/index.html] ||
 * Collaboratory:**
 * **Collaboratory 2007 Projects** || **Project Detail Links:** ||
 * **Science**
 * **Social Studies/Political Science**
 * **Reading/Language Arts**
 * Google Literature Tours - Students learn about literature by seeing where the story took place using Google Earth. || http://www.googlelittrips.org/ ||

Global Collaboration sites to join existing projects or create your own. The discussion board is moderated, and discussion takes place with global participants || http://www.takingitglobal.org/ ||
 * **Global Collaboration sites** || **Web Link** ||
 * Good place to start a global conversation: Taking it Global
 * High School students collaborate to solve Global Problems together: || http://www.globalchallengeaward.org/ ||
 * Student Project collaboration with global participants, requires joining || http://www.iearn.org/projects/index.html ||

[|http://bubbl.us] Web based brainstorming and collaboration tool that lets you create, modify and share mind maps.
 * Collaboration sites for document sharing and project collaboration:**

[|http://ThinkFree.com] Need to share the document with a team, and let them collaboratively work together to complete a project? This site allows you to share the document with anyone. Setup collaboration teams to access the document, and get a history of who worked on the document.

http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/ Google Docs & Spreadsheets. Create, share and invite others to collaborate on your document or spreadsheets. Share your documents online, and access them from anywhere.


 * Classroom Ideas:**
 * Have two or more schools in your district join in a project, and allow others to join in as well on topics such as Global Warming, or saving the environment.

http://collaboratory.nunet.net/cwebdocs/index.html http://www.thinkfree.com/common/main.tfo
 * References:**