What is a Collaborative System
Collaborative Systems share information between participants (students and teachers/planners) either synchronously
- conferencing; white board; shared simulations/visualizations; shared curricula pages; chat rooms; special resources such as voting/”raise hands” applets
or asynchronously as in email or Lotus Notes
- threaded discussion calendars; documents (this is basic database or web server)
All can be integrated using web export of database/Lotus Notes as a common interface (XML is particularly attractive here)