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During the semester, classes can reserve spaces at the Freedman Center's Collaboration Commons at KSL. The Commons has 3 monitors, many whiteboards, and comfortable seating to facilitate group work.
The Freedman Center's Collaboration Commons offered an opportunity for students to experience collaboration as a unique kind of learning and to consider how classroom spaces might be designed to promote participation and negotiation.
Additional collaboration spaces are available at Think Box.
In the traditional classroom,students collaborated using google docs, whiteboards, and pen and paper to plan out the paths of their projects.
