I attended the Collaboration Concepts session today with the moderator JeffC. During the session I learned that TappedIn can be an important resource in virtual collaboration amongst teachers.  TappedIn can also be used a place where teachers can share thier work and ideas. Jeff taught the group how to join other TappedIn groups which I thought was pretty cool. There were all types of groups that catered to the subject that you are teaching. I signed up for the groups..English Pow Wow, WebQuest Designer & Users, Write Talk, and Web Tools for Education. I enjoyed the session although it was slow due to the fact that there was some over zealous chatters in the group so Jeff would get sidetracked easily. Also, Jeff shared a portal site I thought was awesome because the site focuses on Collaborative possibilities of the net. The site is http://www.snurl.com/web2tools . We also explored different web tools and websites provided by the portal. One website that i like the alot was www.cueflash.com its a website that allows you to make virtual note cards for whatever subject that you teach. Its a cool tool for you to share with your students or future students whichever is the case. Also, www.GoGooligans.com is a search engine for Kids that I think is a great website to have students use because all the information is filtered so that studnets won’t get into anything that they aren’t supposed to. During the session we were all encouraged to share ideas and sites that we had found. I am really glad that I know about the portal because it has excellent websites on it for teachers, parents, and students.