1. Digital Collaboration to
Increase Student Learning
Mary Jo Davis & Ray Francis

2. Digital Collaboration
How do you define collaboration?
To work, one with another;
cooperate, as on a literary
To work jointly with work
others or together (from Dictionary.com)
especially in an
intellectual endeavor
(from Merriam-Webster online
dictionary)
My favorite:
WORK TOGETHER
(from Roget’s Thesaurus.com)

3. Digital collaboration in action . . .

4. •Digital collaboration-value to education
Bloom’s taxonomy—help your
students move…
FROM
HERE
TO
HERE

5. Digital collaboration-value to education
Marzano’s nine guidelines
to improve student achievement
1. Identifying similarities & differences
2. Summarizing & notetaking
3. Reinforcing effort & providing recognition
4. Homework & practice
5. Nonlinguistic representation
6. Cooperative learning
7. Setting objectives & providing feedback
8. Generating & testing hypotheses
9. Cues, questions, & advance organizers

6. Digital collaboration
Fits all learning environments
Face to face
Perfect for group work sessions
Remember to involve technology
Blended instruction
Blended classroom perfect fit
Virtual classrooms
Embed technology in classroom site
Multiple tools for use in online class

8. Today’s discussion
Using technology to collaborate which
increases student engagement & learning
First Storytelling & creativity
How to engage students using basic technology
Second Polling in the classroom
a basic introduction
Third Wikis, blogs, & sharing
Let them create the story, & add to each other’s work
Fourth Polling in action
Specific tools & display possibilities
Fifth Collaborative questing
Sending you on a scavenger hunt
Closing Q & A and time to experiment

9. STORYTELLING

10. Storytelling in a real classroom &
shared by a real teacher

11. Storytelling
A valuable tool for many reasons
 Help students find their voice
 Discuss difficult issues
 Students with problems communicating
Why do YOU think
storytelling is valuable?

12. Storytelling—as a classroom tool
Students can tell stories in many ways
 Pictures
 Audio narratives—more privacy w/o images
 Narrated slideshow
 Movie story
Help students explore new territory,
problem solve,
& learn coping strategies

13. Storytelling in many forms
Technologies to create storytelling output
Wikis
Wiki on Digital Collaboration
Blogs
Blog discussing digital collaboration tools

14. POLLING

15. •Poll Anywhere, Everywhere, Anyhow…
Add student input during
discussions with live polling
Don’t fear
technology,
embrace it!

16. Various polling software

18. Polling: not a new concept
Instructors have always asked students for feedback
On the fly polling helps to:
Modify lecture to meet
student needs
Check for understanding
Check if students are grasping
difficult concepts or formulas

19. Polling: as a teaching tool
By polling, an instructor can:
Resource Check for
evaluation understanding
KWL info
gathering
Collaboration Pre/post
in class event
(online or surveys
f2f)

20. Polling: as a learning tool
Students can administer their own polls
Data for Group
student responses
research
Promote
positive
performance
Analyze
and
Improve synthesize
writing data
skills

22. Situation where polling would
work for you
Face to face classroom ideas??
Online format ideas??

23. COLLABORATIVE
QUESTING

24. Collaboration through Questing
New ways to insure student collaboration
 Online scavenger hunts
 Web quest
 Directed notes
 Shared research
 New & prior knowledge
 Cooperation & collaboration

25. Questing for learning
Learning could include collaboration,
teamwork, research skills
Identify roles for each participant
Spell out essential group details
Clearly identify objective & search
methodology
Outline acceptable resources
Describe end product plainly and
base grades upon published rubric

27. Digital collaboration building blocks
Add digital collaboration to your classroom. . . .
Digital Storytelling Digital Polling Digital Questing
ALL LEAD TO
MORE EFFECTIVE
DIGITAL
COLLABORATION

28. QUESTIONS? ? ?