Todays Meet. Benefits – Google Apps for Education. Google Drive and Docs: Sharing and Collaborating. The Surprising Benefits of Solitude - Andrew McAfee. By Andrew McAfee | 2:47 PM January 19, 2012 Some recent reading crystallized two hypotheses that have been rattling around in my head for a while now: Digital crowds work better than real-world ones.For some things, nothing works except solitude. These formed after reading a great article by Susan Cain in the New York Times called “The Rise of the New Groupthink.” The column is a preview of her new book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking (the title alone assures that I will buy it). The book summarizes a lot of research about what actually happens when people work together in groups, and most of it ain’t pretty.
As Cain writes, …decades of research show that individuals almost always perform better than groups in both quality and quantity, and group performance gets worse as group size increases. There is one large exception to this rule: groups that come together digitally, rather than in the real world, are often very creative, innovative, and productive. The Year in Review: Where Business is Headed and What Tools You Nee... Collaborative Tools. Skip to main content Create interactive lessons using any digital content including wikis with our free sister product TES Teach. Get it on the web or iPad! Guest Join | Help | Sign In cooltoolsforschools Home guest| Join | Help | Sign In Home Presentation Tools Collaborative Tools Research Tools Video Tools Slideshow Tools Audio Tools Image Tools Drawing Tools Writing Tools Music Tools Organising Tools Converting Tools Mapping Tools Quiz and Poll Tools Graphing Tools Creativity Tools Widgets File Storage & Web Pages Other Helpful Sites Creative Commons Teacher Resources Apps for Mobile Devices (NEW - Under Construction) Tools index for this site A-Z email Lenva <a href=" Live Blog Stats</a> Actions Help · About · Blog · Pricing · Privacy · Terms · Support · Upgrade Contributions to are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike Non-Commercial 3.0 License.
Turn off "Getting Started" Loading... 5 golden rules for productive digital collaboration. Communication and productivity are interdependent, and in a distributed team, their relationship is abundantly clear. While a cozy, in-person meeting might easily segue into a waffly chat, the nature of distributed collaboration tends to highlight time-wasting more starkly. Communication has evolved with technology, but many of those now IMing colleagues cut their teeth writing internal memos on typewriters. Cultural and generational clashes are both common in distributed collaboration, and more damaging than they might be if the working relationships had a face-to-face component. Many have discussed email etiquette, but for the average web worker, the notion of politesse can seem archaic — or even counterproductive in some circumstances. Here, then, are five golden rules for respectful, productive digital communication, whether you’re using email, IM, video chat, phone, or other communications tools like document sharing and time tracking systems. 1.
Have an agenda, and meet it 2. 3. 4. Online teamwork and collaboration | Simon McIntyre. While developing effective teamwork and collaboration skills are considered important to the learning process, many students find group work challenging and difficult. In this episode we explore how Internet technologies can improve the... more While developing effective teamwork and collaboration skills are considered important to the learning process, many students find group work challenging and difficult. In this episode we explore how Internet technologies can improve the collaborative process within online teamwork, and offer some useful strategies for facilitation and assessment. Download (.pdf) Share Download (.pdf)Teamwork_LTTO.pdf1.2 MBwww.scribd.com/doc/55334119/Online-teamwork-and-collaborationscribd.com Loading Preview.