Are you interested in collaborating with other scholars working in the area of teacher education?

ATEA is currently exploring the possibility of setting up Special Interest Groups, who may use Web 2.0 technologies to collaborate. Details on how to sign up will be posted soon. Anyone who is interested in joinging a Special Interest Group should contact the This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , Dr Nan Bahr.

Start your own collaborations using free web-based networking technologies.

Our webmaster recommends:

• CiteULike

This collaborative internet-based tool set uses Social Bookmarking, Blogging, and RSS technologies. It's possible (although this requires a little work) to upload Endnote library references, and it is certainly very simple to bookmark journal articles you locate while browsing internet databases. You can start your own group, post a personal profile, build commentaries using the built-in blogging feature, and get notifications when new articles are posted by your collaborators. You can 'tag ' your bookmarked articles, and search for articles based on keywords; ultimately building your own collaborative teacher education folksonomy. This technology is our Webmaster's pick of the tools currently available.

Tagging Tip- For Creating an ATEA Folksonomy

Be sure to tag all relevant articles you find with 'ATEA', so that when you or other members of our teacher educator community search using ATEA as a keyword, you retrieve the pool of all teacher education publications we are collecting as an educational community.

• Academia.edu

A bit like a Facebook for academics. This website allows you to set up an online profile, add links to your online publications, keep track of what colleagues are doing and publishing, locate other academics working in similiar areas, etc. Every time someone searches fr you on Google, you'll receive an email letting you know, so you can also get some idea about the interest in your work. Definitely worth exploring.

 

Other collaborative online tools you might want to explore include:

• WorldCat - Very similar to CiteULike, with easy export of citations to Endnote libraries.

• Wiki Spaces - This site uses Wiki technology.

• Edublogs - This site uses Blogging technology.

• Google Groups - This site uses a range of Web 2.0 technologies.

• Skype in conjunction with the Yugma Team Collaboration add-on - Uses Online Chat , VOIP and VNC technologies to allow you to talk over the phone with a colleague in a remote location, while sharing your desktop, and co-authoring a document as if you were sitting next to each other.

• 4Teachers - Offers a set of free online tools for use with your students.

• Finally, iIf you have your own server, you might want to consider a free, open source, learning management system like Sakai or Moodle .
  

 

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