Collaboration

**Class Collaboration ** **By Sylvia Tellez **

** Edmodo **


 * Similar to Facebook, Edmodo engages students in cooperative learning through the use of group forums and free sharing. All content contained on the website is protected under teacher discretion. Teachers can assign assignments to students in a digital format, and provide students with various forms of feedback as well.
 * Edmodo provides students a safe place to articulate their thought processes, which can prove quite challenging for gifted and talented learners. In addition, students have the freedom to come back and revise their ideas until it matches the complex ideas they have internalized.
 * Edmodo Tutorial



**Skrbl**
 * Teachers can utilize Skrbl as an interactive whiteboard. With no sign-up necessary, teachers can simply provide students with the board's URL address and students can work together to generate ideas that others can see.
 * So passionate about the they are learning, gifted and talented students may inadvertently interrupt others to get their own ideas across. Skrbl allows these students to get their ideas out, without interrupting or dominating classroom discussions.
 * Skrbl Tutorial



**Poll Everywhere**
 * Using the same technologies as //American Idol// and //Dancing with the Stars//, Poll Everywhere allows anyone with a cell phone or a computer to voice their opinions on multitudes of multiple-choice and open-ended questions. As participants send their answers to the address or number provided, their messages are displayed on the screen for all to see.
 * Teachers and presenters can use this tool to get more information regarding audiences' opinions, feelings, or knowledge of a particular topic.
 * Gifted and talented students begin their academic year already possessing a mastery of different concepts to be presented to them. Poll Everywhere enables teachers to gather more information on these concepts in order to modify their instruction accordingly.
 * Take a Tour of Poll Everywhere



**Lino-It**
 * Lino It provides users with a set of online sticky notes to use in a variety of ways. Accessible anywhere the Internet is available, users can post reminders, videos, images, or unique brainstorming ideas.
 * Through the creation of a group, users can share anything that they post with colleagues or other important persons of interest. All posts appear on the screen instantaneously, motivating students to continue to share their ideas.
 * Classrooms can utilize Lino It for its built-in calendar capabilities, in posting upcoming assignments and tests.
 * Many gifted and talented children have trouble staying organized. Lino It enables these students to take ownership in their own responsibilities in a fun and innovative fashion. Gifted learners can also generate their own ideas without fear of interrupting peers or teachers.
 * How to Use Lino It