 Welcome to Unit 5 of the EDU Goals MOOC. I'm Shelly Sanchez-Terrell and I will provide you with guidance and support for completing the last task of your journey. Our focus is on successful collaboration between teachers and students. Your goal for this unit is to collaborate with other educators to design a collaborative activity for your students. To achieve this goal, you will be provided with tips, resources and apps for organizing and managing a student collaboration project. Setting up a successful collaboration requires the teachers involved to quickly and easily communicate no matter what time zone they are in. We call this asynchronous communication. To see which social networks and messaging apps the teachers involved are already using so no one has to register for another platform. Many message apps have features to easily plan projects. Teachers can share links, post images and video, lead voice messages, attach documents and encourage each other with stickers and emojis. Then you decide which messaging app works best for the team then create a group chat or thread specifically for the project. Teachers will also need to collaboratively plan out the details of their student collaboration activity or project in one area. Teachers no longer have to email each other a bunch of documents and wait for edits. Now teachers can use free web tools and platforms which allow them and students to create, share and edit documents, spreadsheets and presentations at any time from any device. The platform saves changes for everyone, updates everyone and includes a revision history to track changes. These files are stored to the platform servers which is also called the cloud. The cloud ensures the files are accessible to everyone who has provided permission as long as they have an internet connection. Setting up a successful collaboration requires teachers to meet ahead of time, coordinate and plan the project details. In this unit, you will be introduced to free web tools and apps that help teachers schedule meetings quickly and easily. These tools have features such as meeting planners and calendars to easily schedule meeting dates and times. Some also have wall clocks to coordinate with teachers and different time zones. In this unit, you will also learn about the various ways students can collaborate and learn from each other. Teachers can set up a video conference or host a collaborative discussion using a back channel or a discussion forum. These are common collaboration activities that don't require as much planning or class time. However, you may want to plan a global collaboration project in which students create digital posters, e-books, blogs, videos, presentations or other digital content to achieve the learning objectives. In this unit, you will evaluate several types of global collaboration projects in order to better plan one in the future for your students. Thank you for sharing and exchanging and making this a better enriched edu-goals community. Now, we encourage you to take these exchanges with your peers a step further and collaborate on a student collaboration activity together. We have provided you with tips, resources and examples to get you started. We are excited to explore the student project you and your peers design.