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Collaboration

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LearnCentral  Is both a real time synchronous, collaborative component along with a more traditional comment area and a friends or Network section. In the collaborative environment users can share applications with other classrooms. Free, but you can have only 3 participants and you cannot record your session. For $199,00 a year, you can have 10 members and you can record events. Founded by Steve Hagadorn, Elluminate is one of the site sponsors. Getting started guide  here

ProjectsByJen Well constructed, quick and easy, global project for preK-6 classrooms

[|Skype for education] Free community to help teachers everywhere use Skype to help their students learn. It’s a place for teachers to connect with each other, find partner classes and share inspiration. This is a global initiative that was created in response to the growing number of teachers using Skype in their classrooms.  media type="file" key="Skype-desktop.m4v" align="center" width="300" height="300"

iEARN Collaboration Center Enables youth to learn with, rather than simply about, the world. Find project partners quickly. Read 200+ project descriptions and browse student-produced media.

Global SchoolNet’s Projects Registry The oldest (1995) and largest online clearinghouse for teacher-conducted global learning projects which contains more than 3,000 annotated listings – and is searchable.

The Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education (CIESE) Sponsors and designs interdisciplinary and collaborative projects to enhance curriculum using [|real time data]  and the Internet's potential to reach peers and experts around the world.

Kid Link: Teachers and students through secondary school, you do not have to join to view the global projects .

<span style="background-color: initial; color: #21528f; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">[|Flat Classroom™ Projects] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #21528f; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Global collaborative project that joins together students from geographically dispersed areas and includes Flat Classroom Project, Digiteen, NetGenEd and Eracism Projects.

<span style="background-color: initial; color: #21528f; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">ePals Global Community <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #21528f; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Project-based learning network with classrooms in over 200 countries and territories.

<span style="background-color: initial; color: #21528f; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Global Education Collaborative <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #21528f; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Database of member projects from the online community of those interested in global education.

<span style="background-color: initial; color: #21528f; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Global Gateway <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #21528f; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">This is the global gateway to educational partnerships!

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #21528f; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Around the World with 80 Schools <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #21528f; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Started by Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano, her goal is to take your students //**around the world with 80 schools**// with Skype.

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 * Colonial Williamsburg Electronic Field Trips

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Voicethread's features include: the ability to create voice comments, voice recording within a browser allows for recording of multiple voices, doodling which captures drawing as an animation synced to voice or text commentary…listeners can watch the process, voice threads can be embedded in other sites, one account can have many identities so a classroom can switch identities on the fly without having to sign out, media importing so slide show presentations and pictures become collaborative conversations, comment moderation abilities, and the ability to zoom in and pan images.

Ideas for using VoiceThread

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[|Click here to go to Voicethread] VoiceThread ED Click here to learn more about Voicethread Click here to access the Voicethread 4 Education wiki [|Click here to download the user manuals for VoiceThread] [|Click here to access user tutorials] Click here for a video [|Introduction to VoiceThread] Click here for a Teacher Training Video Create Student Identities in Voicethread
 * From secrets of content creation to management tricks and the basic rules of Ed.VoiceThread, an encyclopedic compendium of VoiceThread knowledge and wisdom is now available, covering almost everything you could possibly want to know about using Voicethread.

VoiceThreads Samples:
 * [|Greetings from Iceland__] : Kindergarten
 * [|Hello from West Tisbury__] : Kindergarten
 * [|Counting in Icelandic__] : Kindergarten
 * [|What we like to do__] :Kindergarten and [|__here__]
 * [|Peedie Arrives from Papay Westray in the Orkneys__] :MultiAge Class - 6-8 year olds
 * [|Endangered Animals Challenge__] : MultiAge Class - 6-8 year olds
 * [|Learning About Fiji__] :MultiAge Class - 6-8 year olds
 * [|Brevig Station Alaska__] :MultiAge Class - 6-8 year olds
 * Buddha: iEarn Hero Project: 5th Grade