Introduction
Working in groups can be difficult. Here are some resources to make the process easier.
Please note: if you check out books on your account for your group, you are responsible for returning them.
Group Document
1) Find one citation (book, article, web page, etc.) that can help with your research.
2) Add it to the Google Doc linked below.
Advice from others
- 50 Fabulous Web Tools for Group Projects
From Rated Colleges blog, resources for Project Management, Contacts and Communication, Collaboration, Bookmarks and Sharing, and Organization - Group Project: A Conflict Resolution Guide for Students Step-by-step advice for managing group projects, compiled by Heidi Burgess, Co-Director, University of Colorado Conflict Research Consortium
Communicating/Meeting
- Doodle Doodle allows you to create a poll, forward to participants and get results quickly and easily. Doodle can also be used as a simple scheduling tool. Test it HERE
- Google Wave Communicate and collaborate in real time. Google Wave combines chat features with multimedia resources and Google Docs.
- Google Sites A free and easy tool for creating and sharing websites and wikis instantly.
- Using Outlook Scheduling Assistant
- Adobe ConnectNow Up to 3 Meeting Participants can use this video conferencing tool.
Sharing Information
- Delicious All your stuff in one place.
Get to your bookmarks from any computer, anytime, anywhere. - MyEBSCOhost Available in any of our EBSCOhost databases, at the top of the page:
* Share your folders with others
* View others' folders - Mendeley Citation and Article Storage Sharing, must download
- Zotero Citation sharing and creation tool - available via Firefox, download only
- Diigo highlight text and comment on web pages, share with others, collaborate in groups
Group Documents/Presentations
- Google Docs Free basic word processing, presentation, spreadsheet and survey software that users can edit simultaneously online. For a brief explanation, look at "In Plain English" video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muVUA-sKcc4
- Adobe Buzzword Allows writing reports, proposals, and anything else you need to access online or work on with others. Everyone can access the latest version of a document, share feedback, and respond to each other's comments from any computer.
- Google Sites A free and easy tool for creating and sharing websites and wikis instantly.
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