Independent Learning Instructions

1. View this page and go deeper into online collaboration tools.  Blog about it.
2. Edit our Google Document - Romeo's Soliloquy "What light through yonder window breaks?"
3. Create your own document in Google Docs (or Zoho) or upload a document.  Invite others to collaborate on the document.
4. Explore the Wikis page and watch the video and read more about Wikis.  Do you think a Wiki would be a better collaboration document for a class than Google Docs or Zoho?  Blog about what you find.
5. Blog your experiences or thoughts about online collaboration tools in the Ning and respond to other participants blogs.
   
6. Here's a list of 60+ online collaboration tools.  Check out some of them to see if you like them better than Google Docs or Zoho.  Blog about it.
   
7. Have you checked your Google Reader lately?  Blog about RSS feeds you're following.  Need more blogs to follow?  Try checking out some of these blogs or these.
8. Look at some Add-ons for Firefox.  Download any that may help your browser work for you.  Some suggested ones you might like:
   1. FireShot (if you use a PC), ScreenGrab (if you use a Mac)
      
   2. Hyperwords
      
   3. Easy YouTube Video Downloader
      
   4. Download Statusbar
   5. Check out this list of Add-ons for 6 thru 12 Education Tools to see if there are any you'd like.
   6. Add more search engines to your Firefox search box.  Search just the search engine Add-ons.
9. Continue to explore these things in the weeks following and post at least one blog per week in the Ning.