Collaboration

What did I learn today?
Well heck, I thought that Web 2.0 tools were just the next version of Microsoft office on line. Turns out Web 2.0 tools are anywhere on the internet where you can interface with others like facebook, twitter, wiki pages, blogs and our fabulous clickers. Today's collaboration isn't just face to face or snail mail You don't need to be in a meeting with real people to collaborate. We live in a world of instant gratification. You can post on any Web 2.0 site and people are reading and ready and willing to respond instantly.
We looked at wikis and creating wiki pages with wikispaces.com. A wiki is a website that can be used and edited by others. It is similar to creating new blog entries. Something new to me was creating tables, adding files and links, embeddding movies, and widgets.
We also looked at the new Colorado State Standards and how CDE addressed the 21st century skills of collaboration, critical thinking and reasoning, information literacy, self-direction, and invention. Checking out hte standards seems to me a bit of a "duh" for me in my math class.