Online Collaboration

I am seeing online collaboration more and more and I expect that it will continue to increase in the future.
Some ways I use it now:
- Students who are working in pairs or on group projects can collaborate without having to share usernames/passwords. This helps when students are at home or absent.
- Teachers in the same content area or across content areas can plan collaboratively even when they don't have shared planning time.
Some ways I would like to use it:
- Planning and comparing notes with paraeducators and special educators. Our schedules never coordinate, so we are often catching up on the fly.  If we collaborated using something like Google Docs or PB Works, we could more easily address student needs.
- Parent conferences with multiple teachers.  Teachers could all share information about students, including progress reports, and parents could respond. This could be more efficient than excessive emailing with "Reply to All".
How do you use online collaboration?

Podcasts

My students are writing poetry for our schoolwide poetry contest. I have been using a microphone to record students reading their own poetry.  This has been great because hearing poetry aloud gives it so much more meaning, especially when it is read by the poet.

Now, I can put these podcasts in our faculty/staff shared drive to be played over the announcements and at our school Gallery night. I love it!