Informal online collaboration

Kidd (2020) shares some valuable ideas and tips when it comes to selecting and using online collaboration tools. The following online tools can be explored for cooperative and collaborative learning:

Cacoo
Create flowcharts and diagrams online with real-time collaboration. This handy tool in a wide variety of academic disciplines, and being able to edit them collaboratively makes Cacoo a powerful application.

Collaborize Classroom
This is a topic library where you can find, create, share, and download inquiry-based discussions on any educational topic. As a result, you receive a unique URL which can be sent to the students to begin the lesson.

Diigo
Social bookmarking space that encourages discovery, collaboration, and sharing.

Economics-games.com
Web-based games that let students simulate real-world scenarios.

Flipgrid
A video tool that is meant to encourage discussion and engagement. These short video-logs allow students to share ideas and opinions in a fun and hands-on way.

Group Me
Tackle communication for group projects. This tool is both a website and an app that streamlines group communication. The software lends itself to creating large groups.

Microsoft Teams
A collaborative platform to manage multiple groups and projects. It offers options for integrating learning.

Miro
This online whiteboard has pre-built templates, a drag-and-drop interface, and a no limit on collaborators, working in Miro is easy. You will also never run out of space.

Mural
Mural facilitates lesson presentation and group project collaboration by making idea sharing a simple, visual process.

Now Comment
A versatile discussion platform for teaching and peer-reviewing.

Padlet
With Padlet you can add posts with one click, invite others to contribute (signup not required), and work with unlimited collaborators. Padlet supports almost every file type.

Peergrade
Feedback tool with rubrics.

Popplet
Part mind mapping tool, part PowerPoint, Popplet gives students a clear, concise way to compile multiple ideas on a single topic and share them. From brainstorming for a writing project to visualising relationships between newly discovered images and information, this cooperative application lets students record their thoughts and display them for the rest of the class to see.

Scratchwork
A collaborative whiteboard to create math.

Scribblar
An online collaboration platform that provides many incentives for teamwork, as well as technology, to engage in creative work. It also allows for adding more classes to one discussion, and you can save the chat transcript.

Socrative
Socrative is essentially an application for effective classroom management. It has interactive activities, which are perfect for increasing the engagement of students.

Teammates
With Teammates, you can set up an 'evaluation session' for students to give anonymous peer feedback to team members, flexible feedback paths, reports and statistics, and access control. You can use different question types, share comments and have access to your student profiles.

TED Talks
Stimulate student engagement by accessing academic talks, which can be shown to students in the class. The website also encourages users to create their TED-style talks for others.

Twiddla
An online whiteboard where you can mark up websites, graphics, and photos, or start drawing on a blank canvas. Browse the web with your students or make that remote tutoring session more productive than ever.

Voice Thread
Students can create, collaborate, and share all kinds of multimedia.

Vyew
A collaborative and interactive whiteboard. You can create a collaborative whiteboard online, upload images and documents and write over them, and have a discussion around them, and more.

Yammer
Yammer allows customized groups to share ideas, information, and feedback, making it an ideal communication tool for teachers, students.

Lastly, you may have a look at the EDsmart website that shares information on some more useful online collaboration tools.