Collaboration Tools for Teachers and Administrators

I have been thinking a lot about what tools are most helpful for teachers in their classrooms and for PD sessions. These are some of my favorites and I use them in my training sessions whenever possible.       

Twitter - Have participants to tweet their exit tickets - this would be a great way to get the whole Staff/Class/Team/Grade Level on Twitter! #faday
Create a 30 sec Voki and share - Turn and Talk without turning!
Socrative -  A Student Response System, mostly Q&A but definitely fun and there are lots of pre-made quizzes available online to use or adapt for your needs. Works great on iPads too!
Infuse Learning - Another great SRS which also includes drawings, really powerful!
Popplet - Easy to collaborate, share, embed and much more! One of the best visual organizers out there!
Today's Meet - backchannel, awesome to set up and leave running during a presentation
Titan Pad - Allows for many to work on the same document, great for backchanneling, colors and fonts are fun!

Collaboration in Cambridge

This week as part of the Ed Tech Teacher Summer Workshop Series in Cambridge MA, I had the opportunity to work with a wonderful group of educators and top-notch presenter, Suzy Brooks. We spent three days learning and exploring tools for technology integration in the elementary classroom. Each day, this dynamic group of 23 educators would take a break for lunch and explore all that Harvard Square had to offer. After three days, this is what they created:

I wish I could tell you how many apps and applications were used in the creation of this presentation! Here are just a few of them: Google Presentation, YouTube, Google Maps, Popplet, Fotobabble, WeVideo......the list goes on!
Thanks to @simplysuzy and all the educators that contributed to this valuable resource!