Friday, August 29, 2008

Collaborating Online


VoiceThread A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or phone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.

Twiddla calls itself "team whiteboarding". A very easy to use web based interactive whiteboard. Think of it as a smartboard in your browser. You can upload files, record video and audio, save a session, and embed it in a website.

Skrbl is another website that offers a sharable online whiteboard.

Examples of people collaborating online.

Telephono has musicians record music than e mail it to the next musician. Each musician can change everything or add nothing The song keeps getting e mail from musician to musician. A play on the childhood game of telephone.

NY Times columnist is writing a thriller novel over Twitter. Followers are able to comment on the story as it unfolds. THese comments may effect the course of the novel. Could a group of students write a story collaboratively over Twitter?

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