Collaboration Tools
Your group may wish to 'meet' online at agreed times to discuss the readings, Discussion Questions, and your group answer. The following tools may prove useful to you in scheduling meetings, communicating online, and producing a collaborative document:
Scheduling:
- Doodle - http://www.doodle.com/
Collaborative Document Editing:
- Google Docs - http://docs.google.com/
- EtherPad - p2pu.hackpad.com
Text chat
- GooglePlus / gTalk - http://www.gmail.com/
- AIM - http://www.aim.com/
- Skype - http://www.skype.com - One-to-One, and has a Public Chat function
- HipChat - https://www.hipchat.com/
- IRC - http://webchat.freenode.net/ (one to many)
Audio & Video Chat:
- Skype - http://www.skype.com
- Google - http://gmail.com/
- Tokbox - http://www.tokbox.com
Many-user, telephone-based:
- Yuuguu - http://www.yuuguu.com
- Free Conference Call - http://freeconferencecall.com.
Yet more tools:
- Sexy MOOCMOOC Tools - an enormous Google Docs list of tools