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Collaboration Commons at the Freedman Center
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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.
Storyboarding Even when students collect their media files, they are still not ready to compose their text. First they need to create storyboards for each page of their chapters. A storyboard is like a map of what each page of the digital book will include—text, images, video, audio, etc. This is a very important step in writing digitally because it requires the authors to consider the relationship among each modal element and how it emphasizes or reinforces the key idea or message of the page.
Students can storyboard individually or collaboratively using templates (abundantly available on the internet), using large white boards, or newsprint and markers. Laying out all the storyboards for each chapter invites group conversation about issues such as continuity and formatting consistency.
