For the past several months, I have accumulated links and trial software relating to various types of collaboration tools (some desktop applications, some Web based). This week, I had the opportunity to gather my thoughts on these wonderful new technologies. I documented my observations in a media accumulation and review "reflection paper" that assesses how a teacher in an online or distance education setting could use some of these collaboration technologies as a means of providing teacher feedback.
I probably tried to tackle too much within this one paper. I didn't go into a lot of detail about the individual applications, but rather discussed the options in broad categories. Going forward, I would like to spend more time assessing each application in more detail.