LESSON 7: Collaboration by Digital Channels

 To start with, the main objectives of this lesson were:

• To be aware of the channels to connect with others and to collaborate by digital tools with the end of the interaction.
• To be able to use the technology and tools to work in a team, to create collaborative projects, and to create and to build common resources, knowledge, and contents.
• To know and to use collaborative tools such as forums and wikis. To take part in sharing public spaces.
• To control and to share teaching contents by software collaborative tools. 

Digital collaboration refers to the use of digital tools with the aim of collaborating. The current digital tools and the Internet let a high number of people communicate in between them and share contents and work in the same way to get a shared goal.

Also, the concept “online collaboration” is directly related to “digital collaboration”, whose meaning is similar, but the field of application that is only and exclusively the Internet.

         

         

Video Streaming

• Tools that allow us to interact with others through video (with one or more people) - video conferencing between one or more people (two-way, since both transmit) or webinars in one direction, where one person transmits and the rest see (one-way).
• Those transmissions can be private for a few chosen people or public, any person with the link can watch the transmission, and even participate.

Documents

Collaborative documents are characterized by the access of those participating in a collaborative project. Google Doc or Office 365 (word) are an examples of this type of tool that allows the creation and development of collaborative documents. There are roles can be defined for the participants depending on platform.

Forums

>This type of resource is one of the best well-known and used. A forum (in a digital context) is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages.

>Tools for digital collaboration (forums): They differ from chat rooms in that messages are often longer than one line of text, and are at least temporarily archived. Also, depending on the access level of a user or the forum set-up, a posted message might need to be approved by a moderator before it becomes visible.

Then we had to answer a question in the forum about what our opinion was about parents posting pictures of their children on social networks. 

Mi answer: 

Also I added a question to interact with my classmates about the question and their points of view: 

Blogs

Also, a blog is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries ("posts") and they mostly have an only owner. A blog can be created and edited by only one person or a reduced group of people. Most blogs have forums, or sections to add comments, where other people can participate.

Wikis 

• A wiki is a website on which users collaboratively modify content and structure directly from the web browser. In a typical wiki, the text is written using a simplified markup language (called Creole) and often edited with the help of a rich-text editor.
• The contents are often public. The Wikis are web pages related to a specific area of knowledge and expertise, being Wikipedia the most popular. There are wikis created during last years which are related to specific topics, where experts periodically complete and additional terms.

For the practical exercise we had to create a wiki in the virtual classroom in order to upload all the information about the solar system, which is our topic. Each one of us created an entry with subsections in which we collected all the information and organized it so that it would be easier to access it. In these pictures you can see how we made the index and the entries of each one: