Collaboration+Sites

= **Technology in the Classroom: W****ebsites for Collaboration,** E**diting together and storage** =

** Benefits of Collaboration :**
[|**Google Apps for Education:**] Google Apps for Business allows teachers and students to communicate with each other. Teachers can upload assignments and help students through the website as needed. There are assessment tools for teachers to see where their students are at.
 * The advantages to the idea of fully using the talents and abilities of both the core/content teacher and the special education teacher in tandem for the inclusive classroom setting are threefold. **
 * **Benefits for students with learning disablities**: **In the past students with learning disablities usually leave the classroom having them feel isolated from their classroom and peers. Instead of having the child with learning disablities leave, they have found it more helpful to have another teacher in the classroom just for that student. That was the student stays in his/her classroom with the help of the second teacher.**
 * **Benefits for student without learning disabilities:** **In addition to learning and study strategies brought to the classroom by the special education teacher, a social aspect is brought into play as students interact with others who are different than them. These interactions can include tutoring, when higher achieving students solidify their knowledge by presenting it to a peer. Nothing clarifies knowledge or skills of a student like having to explain it in detail to another student. In addition to clarifying content knowledge, the student/tutor will improve his or her communication skills, problem-solving skills and relationship building skills**
 * **Benefits for Teachers**: ** When two teachers work together to teach a class, the result is that they learn from each other, they draw from each other’s strengths and they learn techniques that the other brings to the table from their wealth of experience and their educational background.Both the general education teacher and the special education teacher will develop techniques to deal with all students, regardless of labels and in this process reach out to not only students with learning disabilities but also those who fall just short of the classification but are at-risk students who need additional help.**
 * General: **

[|**Collaborize Classroom:**] Teachers can upload assignments, communicate with students, and cut down on printing costs. Students can upload completed assignments and teachers can cut down on the time they spend grading.

[|**UDUTU: Online Course Authorizing**] Web-based tool which provides a user friendly platform to create highly interactive elearning courses quickly and easily. Anyone can design, build and implement online training courses without any prior technological expertise.

[|**Haikus:**] Haikus provides a lesson plan and roster organizer for teachers to make sure they stay on task. There is a blog, journal, and forum area where students can communicate with the teacher as well as other students about assignments. And, there is also an assignment upload option where teachers can post assignments instead of printing them out.

[|Stixy] Stixy is like an online bulletin board. Create as many Stixyboards as you like, one for each project. Be creative and share with friends and family.

[|Project2Manage] Project2Manage is an online project management application that helps you stay up-to-date, on task and connected with your team. We’ve taken the hard work of staying organized and simplified it for you.

**Teacher Specific:** [|**Teacher-2-Teacher**] An e-mail forum for teachers to communicate with other teachers to share ideas.

[|Crocodoc] Mark up, fill out, and collaborate on PDFs, Word documents, PowerPoint slides, and web pages.

[|Manymoon] Share Documents, post assignments, and plan out your lessons.

[|Intel Teach Program] This site improves teacher effectiveness through professional development, helping teachers integrate technology into their lessons and promoting students' problem-solving, critical thinking, and collaboration skills. Intel Teach is the largest, most successful program of its kind with more than 10 million teachers trained in 70 countries.

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