Collaboration

__7.6 Collaborative Voicethread__
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__7.3 Voicethread__
Wow! Talk about an all-in-one tool. My initial impression is that Voicethread is like an email/chatroom/Skype session combined in one, and all brought to life. I was blown away by the numerous different ways a person could participate on a Voicethread - by speaking, by writing text, by drawing, or by using audio or digital files. Very cool indeed. I think this would work well almost as an assessment tool - where a teacher merely watches from his/her own computer as a small group of students participate on a thread. It would provide so many different ways in which they could be assessed.

__**7.1 Opener**__

 * 1) What is collaboration? What are 3 ways in which students collaborate in your classroom and are they successful?

Collaboration is the sharing of ideas, thoughts, and opinions in order to formulate new ideas, products, or other outcomes. My students collaborate a lot in my classroom. 3 of the most successful ways would be through group experiments (these are very successful because they are required to make group predictions, work through the experiment to see if they were correct or incorrect, and then make connections to the real world upon finishing); Think/Write/Pair/Share (always quick, easy, and attainable to students at any level); and Science Buddies (where they are required to read through the text together and take notes together - they must decide together what the main ideas of the page are, what the most important details are, and how to summarize the page in ten words or less).