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A collaborative document is a shared document that can be edited by multiple authors who work together synchronously or asynchronously to develop the document. Some common tools for creating collaborative documents include Google Docs, Microsoft Office online, Wikis, Slack. These applications are online tools that allow teachers to easily share documents with the class and enable students to work easily on those documents. These support synchronous editing and comment writing, and generally saves versions of the document; thereby facilitating real-time collaborative learning.
Here are some examples of using collaborative documents:
- Creating a collaborative resource: Enable students to collaboratively build discussion around a specific topic to create useful resource to the class or the world. This can be a good activity for research and writing. T
- Teaching persuasive writing: Teach students to write in different and sophisticated way, as it allows instructors to better understand students’ thinking process and be able to intervene at appropriate times to give feedback to their students.
- Generating shared references: Get students to create a shared collaborative document (e.g., Google Doc or Sheet, OneNote, Wiki) to collect reference citations for a topic of interest. Each student is invited to collaborate and has the opportunity to edit the document by adding in their own entries.
- Supporting assignment draft markup: Get student groups to collaborate within a shared document (Google Doc, Google Sheet or Google Slide) where they can use comments as a means for adding notes to the documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
- Facilitating group work: Get student groups to work on a shared project created in wiki that allows them to work on specific sections or parts of the overall project.
