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The Best Online Tools For Collaboration — NOT In Real Time

December 19, 2006

Last month I posted The Best Online Tools For Real-Time Collaboration. I was exploring those tools more for my own professional development and professional relationships since, because of time zone issues with our International Sister Classes Project, it seemed unlikely any real-time collaborative work was going to work with my students.

At some point, however, I can see how our classes might consider doing joint projects not in real time (I believe that type of relationship is also called asynchronous. However, if I can’t spell it or pronounce it without a dictionary I’m not going to use it!).

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Carnival of the Mobilists #97

December 19, 2006

Deals, analysis, locations, mobile phone stuff, widget topics, and more are covered. and framed by handsome graphics this week at Andreas Constantinous Vision Mobile Forum Carnival #97.

And here’s a post, this week too, about the Carnival on WorldChanging, which poster Emily Gertz headlines: The Best of Mobile Blogging, Every Week. She gives me a new title in this quote: Mobilist godmother Judy Breck reports on Smartmobs how students are sorting out student mobile rights at school . . . .

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