Collaboration Tools Available
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Designs4Learning
Learn how to use the applications and collaboration tools available to CSULB instructors to help engage students in the classroom and energize your teaching
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Clickers
use radio frequencies via hand-held remote control devices that each student has in the classroom. They allow for active participation during a lecture as students answer questions via the buttons on their hand-held device.
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Second Life
is a virtual world which is accessible via the Internet, allowing users, called "residents", to interact with each other through avatars. Residents can explore the virtual world, meet other residents, socialize, participate in individual and group activities, and create and trade virtual property and services with one another.
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Blogs
are websites where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order. A blog can encourage in-depth and extended writing and reflection than email or discussion boards.
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Wikis
(definition of wikis) and Wikipedia encourage democratic use of the Web and promote content composition by nontechnical users. As a result, the tool can be utilized by students to become the "experts" as they format and generate a wiki on a classroom-based topic.
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RSS feeds
in Plain English (Video)
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del.icio.us
is a social bookmarking website -- the primary use of del.icio.us is to store your bookmarks online, which allows you to access the same bookmarks from any computer, share bookmarks publicly for reference, and view/interact with others' public bookmarks.
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MERLOT
Multimedia Education Resources for Learning and Online Teaching is a free resource for instructor and students of higher education. Browse the collection of learning objects or search for course materials.
