Strategic Use of Tools

You can create Web-based help when you're not available.

Web pages of selective links can be organized and even enhanced with easily implemented animations to help or guide your users.

1. Engage interest, sample perspectives or define core pathfinder
2. Design a tutorial or animated tutorial (click on "View the Tutorial on Finding News" Viewlet) to help someone learn a complex task.

You can encourage collaborative development of ideas or expertise.

Bulletin boards, blogs or even a searchable database create a lasting record of discussions or shared information, resulting in thoughtful collaborative development of ideas and problem solving.

3. Design a threaded discussion for complicated projects
4. Share technology expertise peer-to-peer database
5. Develop community and manage content using a blog
6. Provide current information with an RSS feed My Yahoo

You can create a framework for collaborative teaching.

By structuring the students' thinking process in advance, educators and librarians have a common set of goals and strategies to frame their collaboration.

7. Create a critical thinking structure: Habits of Mind
8. Repurpose testing software: A Bone From a Dry Sea
9. Use a problem-based learning environment WISE
10. Use pre-structured scenarios BGuILE
11. Use a common structure for notetaking and research: Scribe Project
12. Invite colleague contributions to a cross-disciplinary project: Turn-of-the-Century Child
13. Collaboratively develop knowledge: Wikipedia

You can structure collaborative assessment of student work.

Online rubric creation or public demonstrations of work samples provide an arena for common language around assessment.

14. Use public presentations such as student-created example of a digital portfolio.
15. Collaborative creation of public rubrics well? (generator, example, student example)