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Communication & Collaboration

Katie Bridgett Kristin Crow Jenna Johnson

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https://penzu.com/- This online source allows children to keep a diary or personal journal. In the classroom this could be used for journals during reading and writing assignments. It allows the children to work on it at home or in the classroom. You do have to sign up but it is free and the student can e-mail or an post an online link to their journals so the teacher can access the journals with a click of a button. Penzu is easy to use and is private until you make it a public link. It also will allow the students to be anonymous if there is a problem with the student they can email the teacher and address issues within the classroom.

http://kidblog.org/signup.php- This online source is a blog for a class. This allows the students to participate in discussions and publish posts. The website is secure and free to sign up. The teacher creates the class name and the teacher can add students into the group through their email address.

http://www.skype.com/- This source allows students to do groups discussions/conference calls when working on group projects at schools throughout classrooms or while at home. It also allows them to do more than one call.

http://www.google.com/google-d-s/documents/- Is through google and allows children to type online documents. This will help with students that can't print off papers before class the next day. It also allows the teacher to read the students documents before the due date and give the children ideas.

http://classblogs.us/- this online source sets up e-learning and allows the students to blog easily. The blog allows the teacher to add up to 15 users per blog. This works for students that don't have an email address also. The teacher can make a virtual classroom so that the students have assignments right there and even can record the teacher explaining assignments. The teacher can also grade assignments right there on the blog so that the students have immediate feedback.

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