2.1.5

===2.1.5 Collaborate with others to exchange ideas, develop new understandings, make decisions, and solve problems. ===

[|Weblist]
Weblist is a social listing site that allows users to create smart lists from URLs, Photos, Music, Videos, Documents and Files. The smart list will then be displayed in thumbnail view for easy browsing, sharing, and organization. Weblists can be saved, shared, tweeted or blogged.

[|Google sites]
Students, teachers, or librarians can use Google sites to create simple websites. There are several templates and themes to choose and the sites can be shared with only specific people or the entire world.

**[|Quest Atlantis]**
Quest Atlantis allows students to work together in a commercial gaming type of environment while pursuing specific learning objectives which focus on environmental and social issues.

**Connections to Ideas and Concepts from //Meaningful Learning with Technology//**
Our textbook mentions this tool specifically and says, "Research has shown that students learn a lot in the areas of science and social studies and gain a stronger sense of academic self-efficacy," (2008, p.57).

**Connections to Multiple Intelligences**
Students that are verbal-linguistic, intrapersonal, interpersonal, naturalistic, and/or visual would likely find this tool appealing. ====**Correlations to State Standards and the** **NETS-S** This tool fits Standard 1c. which is that students use simulated environments to explore complex issues. Also 2d. is addressed in this environment because the students must work in teams to solve simulated problems.====

2.1.1: Continue an inquiry-based research process by applying critical-thinking skills (analysis, synthesis, evaluation, organization) to information and knowledge in order to construct new understandings, draw conclusions and create new knowledge 2.1.2: Organize knowledge so that it is useful. 2.1.3: Use strategies to draw conclusions from information and apply knowledge to curricular areas, real-world situations, and further investigations. 2.1.4: Use technology and other information tools to analyze and organize information. 2.1.6: Use the writing process, media and visual literacy, and technology skills to create products that express new understandings.