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=Collaboration and Research: Issues and Answers=
 * ==What is collaborative research?==
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 * ===The Collaborative Research Model is a flexible model for collaborative student research in coursework across the curriculum. The foundation of the model lies in its cooperative stance, which supports students in working together toward informed decision making on a common research problem.===
 * ==Why collaborative research?==
 * ===A successful collaborative research project will:===
 * ====Interest and engage all participants—students //and// teachers .====
 * ====Provide a realistic rhetorical context to motivate students toward creating and presenting their research.====
 * ====Encourage consensus decision-making, small-group collaboration, cooperative learning, and critical thinking.====
 * ====Increase student abilities for locating, gathering, and synthesizing diverse perspectives.====
 * ====Heighten student awareness of how research is valued and assessed.====
 * ===In initiating students into academic scholarship, we must encourage them to engage in rigorous inquiry and strong argumentation. In the Collaborative Research Model, we maintain our emphasis on inquiry and argumentation, but we do so within an ethical realm of “invitational communication”.===
 * ===In //Turning to One Another, Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future//, Margaret J. Wheatley describes an invitational communication climate when she tells us:===
 * ====we acknowledge one another as equals====
 * ====we try to stay curious about each other====
 * ====we recognize that we need each other’s help to become better listeners====
 * ====we slow down so we have time to think and reflect====
 * ====we remember that conversation is the natural way humans think====
 * ====we expect it to be messy at times====
 * ==When is collaborative research appropriate as opposed to individual research?==
 * ===Adults write on familiar topics. Consequently, they know something about where to begin to find sources.===
 * ===Children often write about assigned topics, with which they are not familiar, and therefore need either:===
 * ====Direction in the form of a Webquest or Pathfinder for individual research.====
 * ====Collaboration with others who have, or develop, some expertise in the subject or topic.====
 * ===When you feel your students have developed some basic research skills, and are ready to enter an invitational communication environment, where they will acquire real-world skills for focused research and presentation of information.===

=Using the Web 2.0 community to find good sources (Receiving)=
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 * ==Basic Research - An overview of the subject matter==
 * ===Wikipedia - collaborative knowledge===
 * ====What do we think about panels of experts vs. the general public?====
 * ====How can Wikipedia become an effective resource in the classroom?====
 * ===Google - does it help in the collaborative scenario?===
 * ====Google Scholar Alerts====
 * ====Surf Canyon add-on to help refine searches====
 * ====Web of Trust add-on to rate reliability of the web site====
 * ====YoLink Google search tools for kids====
 * ===Are there other search options for students doing research?===
 * ====Microsoft Bing====
 * ====Yippy (formerly Clusty)====
 * ====Wolfram Alpha Computational Knowledge Engine====
 * ===Using Pathfinders===
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 * ===Social Bookmarking Sites===
 * ====Fleck====
 * ====Delicious====
 * ====Diigo====
 * ====Digg====
 * ====Search Cloudlet====
 * ====use of tags====
 * ===Academic Communities===
 * ====Independent School Cooperative====
 * ====NECC Ning====
 * ====PBS Teachers====
 * ====WikiEducator====
 * ====Kindle Educator's Group====
 * ==Detailed Research - Who and where are the experts?==
 * ===Navigate the research trail with "forensics." Where is the evidence presented in the basic sources? Where does it take you?===
 * ===Twitter? Is it useful for scholarship?===
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 * ====Twitter for Research: Why and How to Do It====
 * ====TinyURL for short web links in Twitter posts====
 * ===Traditional sources vs. collaborative sources: at what point do traditional scholarly sources trump contemporary scholarly communities?===
 * ====**Peer Review - JSTOR vs. iTunes U**====
 * ====**Intellectual Property issues?**====
 * ====**MyNetResearch - Empowering collaboration**====
 * ====**CiteULike - managing and discovering scholarly references**====
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 * ===Math Archives===
 * ===Online or Virtual Salons===
 * ====Edge====
 * ====Salon====
 * ====The Eye====

=Contributing to collaborative research: sharing sources and collaborative note-taking (Giving)=


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 * ==Zotero - group research site and citation engine ==
 * ==Sidewiki - group commentary on web pages ==
 * ==Evernote - powerful note-taking tool with both email and sharing capabilities ==
 * ==Diigo - social bookmarking site with annotation and commentary ==
 * ==Dropbox - online shared storage system for large files==
 * ==WebNotes Research Management==