Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Collaboration Webs (education):

*How collaboration webs have an impact on education:

You can learn to support collaborative online work very easily and its not complicated. Now you can find many social networking tools, web applications, multi-function videoconference room collaborative workspaces, or a joint workstation where many people can author the same documents together sow we can get enough information from many different sites. This makes you learn a lot from other people not only that but; you also get to know their opinion.

We not only collaborate with people from our classmates in projects, we can also collaborate with people from all over the world through the Internet. This will expose our learning to variety of perspectives. In the workspaces you can share information, get ideas, and also socialize. An example of a social network is ning and social networks like facebook and many other networks.

The main concept of this is that it lets people share interests very easily, also ideas, work on joint projects, etc… all these are common to student work, research, collaborative teaching, writing and authoring, etc… using those groups people can collaborate on projects very easily online, these can be accessed form the internet anywhere in the world, and it can be shared among a team by creating tables, documents, pictures, etc… you can also leave comments. It has now become very easy to work and share your knowledge to people around the world.

You can include multi media in to your work by adding videos, audio clips, and also images and you can also edit them using the tools in the online service.

1 comment:

Julie Lindsay said...

Muneera, a good start however you need to focus o the use of collaboration webs in education. As a team you must decide what specific area you want to focus on in education as well on the wiki.
Collaboration webs also means examining tools such as Google docs, zoho and others that are used by people in education to share documents online. Make sure you read these resources at http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2008/chapters/collaboration-webs/

Also, you must go into your class wiki and add your ideas NOW. Then others can help edit and create content with you.