Overview of telecollaboration tools and affordances

In TILA we have chosen to work with user-friendly and safe tools that allow pupils to engage in intercultural communication. On the one hand we propose asynchronous tools (discussion forum, wiki), on the other we propose synchronous tools (text chat, videocommunication, 3D virtual world). Almost all of them are accessible through our learning environment, the Moodle platform.

Each tool offers its own advantages and challenges. For a quick overview of the affordances of each tool, see below, or click in the alphabet above. For more specific information about each tool, please refer to the different submenus of the ‘Telecollaboration Tasks and Tools’ section on the website.



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Blog

Tools (and links to websites)


Affordances

  • Consist of posts of text or information  
  • Posts can be archived and sorted
  • Possible to embed pictures and multimedia
  • Comment option for readers to add comments


Useful for

  • Sharing ideas, pictures, videos  
  • Responding with comments



Challenges

  • Not very interactive
  • Delay in Time

 

Demo vidoe of a Moodle blog