Have a great time on your journey of collaboration learning！

    In the process of group collaboration, have you ever encountered such a situation: as soon as students encounter group tasks, they write their own. And the real collaboration only stays in a few names on PPT. 😵 Have you ever designed a group task with high expectations, but ended up with an awkward, silence, or chaotic ending. 😔💤

    If you have also encountered these problems, you can take a look at this blog. In this week's exploration, I explored Notion and Stormboard to see if they could help students effectively interact, create and reflect in the task 👀. I want to see if they can really support students' collaborative learning 👀. If you also want to know the results, please explore with me. 👇

1.Notion (https://www.notion.com/)

    In Notion, several students can share the page to edit the same content at the same time, and their avatars or initials will be displayed on the cursor. So that students can complete the writing task together instead of writing a paragraph and finally piece it together (in this case, the writing style of the article will be very cut off😭). Moreover, the teacher can add comments directly next to it, which is conducive to causing students to think and reflect on specific problems. 🤔

    What impresses me most is that Notion can make students' contributions very visible (I think this is very important👍). When students collaborate on the same page, teachers can clearly see who wrote which part, who has modified it, and who left comments. This kind of transparency is very important for group tasks that often contribute unevenly. This way makes collaboration from an abstract requirement to a visualised learning process. 😀

   ❗️However, Notion is not novice-friendly. Its powerful functions also bring the threshold of learning. Young learners or students with weak digital literacy may be at a loss when they first start using this tool. I think Notion is more suitable for high school or college classes.

2. Stormboard (https://stormboard.com/)

    Stormboard is not a document interface, but more like a combination of digital whiteboard and collaboration platform➕. It is a dynamic whiteboard full of moveable sticky notes and visual elements. It combines functions such as sticky notes, real-time collaboration and voting. It is very suitable for tasks such as brainstorming and mind maps in the classroom. 😏

    I think the biggest highlight of Stormboard is that students not only write, but also operate and reorganise ideas together👍. Learners can create notes, group labels, and even vote on the best ideas. Moreover, the labels have different colours (I really like it😻), and students can classify and sort different notes according to their importance. This allows collaborative students to change from passive co-writing to active thinking.

    ❗️However, Stormboard is not suitable for analysing long text, and it would be easy to distract students. And I think the form of convenient signing and voting is more suitable for brainstorming and collecting group opinions at the beginning of group cooperation.

   Finally, I want to say that different tools can play different roles in collaborative learning. As teachers, we need to understand that the key to collaborative learning is not which tool to use, but to design tasks that students can cooperate with each other to complete 😁. Only in this way can students' motivation and passion for collaboration learning be stimulated 👊.