Designing a Collaborative Learning Environment -- Effective online Discussion Areas

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1. Free-standing

1.1. Boardhost http://www.boardhost.com

1.2. Forumotion http://www.forumotion.com/

1.3. Freeforums.org http://www.freeforums.org/

1.4. Yuku.com http://help.yuku.com/support/home

1.5. Vanilla http://vanillaforums.com/

2. Social networking sites

2.1. Edmodo http://www.edmodo.com/

2.2. Twitter

2.3. Facebook

3. Asynchronous Activities

3.1. Discussion Boards

3.2. Discussion Forums

4. Web 2.0

5. Global Reach

6. How to set-up a Board

6.1. Within VLE (Virtual Learning Environments)

6.1.1. Blackboard http://www.blackboard.com/

6.1.2. Canvas Inststructure http://www.instructure.com/

6.2. Within a Wiki http://www.wikispaces.com/

6.3. Blogs with comments http://e-language.wikispaces.com/blogs

6.4. Vlogs with comments

6.5. Social networking sites

6.6. Free-standing sites

7. Examples

7.1. Ted Conversations http://www.ted.com/conversations

7.2. Solvr http://www.a.freshbrain.com/solvr/

7.3. Web 2.0 Tools for teachers http://padlet.com/wall/teachersweb20

7.4. Qhub http://qhub.com/

7.5. Lino http://en.linoit.com/

7.6. Tok http://www.tokbox.com/platform

7.7. efront Discussion Board http://forum.efrontlearning.net/viewforum.php?f=6

8. Voice Boards

8.1. voxopop http://www.voxopop.com/

9. Plan

9.1. Goals

9.1.1. Communication

9.1.2. Easy to use

9.2. Increase Collaboration

9.3. Rules

9.3.1. Use positive comments

9.3.2. No profanity

9.4. Define Problems

9.5. Prioritize Ideas

9.5.1. Capture Ideas

9.6. Define Action Points

10. Problems

10.1. Get Open Discussion

10.2. Moderaton

10.3. Common language

10.4. Cyber Etiquette

11. Synchronous Acrivities

11.1. Chat

11.2. IM

11.3. Skype