Making+Choices

=A small collection of resources for online collaboration. All have links to Free Technology for Teachers. Friend or follow Richard Byrne, he is the man.=

=__Google docs__: the most common, easiest, most free, available, resource around. Does not play well with iPad even with the various apps that are cropping up to make the integration seamless. Surely google is working on this and it will be available soon, in the meantime, here is a complete updated list and explanation of all that google docs has to offer you Another free technology for teachers blog post.=

=__Posterous__: a group blog site that is great for several students collaborating together. Pros: image embedding is easy. Cons, set up can be time consuming, can get super text heavy super fast. Basic idea of posterous blog and How to blog, with info video.=

=__Wikispaces__: a nice and easy way to blog and wiki simultaneously, each page has a discussion section and a separate project function has a variety of editing and privacy settings, Pros: totally free to educators. Cons: simultaneous editing by multiple students is not possible, but careful structuring can overcome this. FT4T video tutorial.=