Collaboration+Station

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**2. NETS for Students (National Educational Technology Standards)**
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 * **2.** || **Communication and Collaboration** ||
 * || Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others. Students: ||
 * a. || interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media. ||  ||   ||
 * //b.// || communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats. ||
 * //c.// || develop cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with learners of other cultures. ||
 * //d.// || contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems. ||


 * **5.** || **Digital Citizenship** ||
 * || Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior. Students: ||
 * a. || advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology. ||  ||   ||
 * b. || exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity. ||
 * c. || demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning. ||
 * d. || exhibit leadership for digital citizenship. ||

**3. General Resources (click the images to take you to the websites)

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A WIKI is a collaborative website which can be directly edited by anyone with access to it. Wikis are fantastic tools for collaborating on a project, brainstorming ideas, making list of tasks for departments and students to do, etc... And because are editable by anyone (you can set it to allow just your invited members to edit it rather than the public), individual members of your departments or your students can work on it whenever and from wherever they need to.   **Wikis In the Classroom ** Wiki Guidelines for the Classroom ****[|Best Educational Wikis of 2009]** 

 **Simply create, manage and moderate BLOGS for all your students with a minimum of fuss. **

Create documents, spreadsheets and presentations online. Share and collaborate online.

TextMarks is a hosted mobile web services platform that facilitates communication and coordination by text message. lets users quickly register a keyword (for free) on the 41411 shortcode that enables them to collect subscribers and broadcast alerts, chat in groups, coordinate events, provide info, and more.