HIA+Collaboration

="Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean." - Ryunosuke Satoro= The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Each individual in a collaboration brings with himself or herself unique characteristics, but when everyone is grouped together, all of those characteristics add up together and become something greater. If you look at the collaborative team as a whole, rather than a conglomerate of individuals, the collaboration will run more smoothly.

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===The Collaboration Age is about learning with a decidedly different group of "others," people whom we may not know and may never meet, but who share our passions and interests and are willing to invest in exploring them together. It's about being able to form safe, effective networks and communities around those explorations, trust and be trusted in the process, and contribute to the conversations and co-creations that grow from them. (Edutopia)===

What are all of the ways HIA colleagues collaborate? Email? Chatting? Joint Planning? Students as Contributors via Alan November More articles via November Learning


 * What is a PLN and Why Do I Need One? (including plurk, twitter) **
 * It's all about the Network **
 * Jill's PLN wiki **

Online options for connecting:
https://www.yammer.com/ [] https://join.me/ http://www.todaysmeet.com/ http://meetingwords.com/ http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/k12.html http://www.delicious.com/jbromen8/backchannel http://livebinders.com/

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