Jesus Espinoza – TEL 311 – 2/17/18 – Professor Lovitt

Technology Integration Form – COLLABORATION

GENERAL INFORMATION
Selected Technology/Resource Name: Age/Grade Level: Technology/Resource Type:
Lino(it) 8
Application Software Device Website
Source: (Web address, company name, etc.)

[Link]

Associated Learning Standard(s): The resource may be generally applicable, if so, simply state that. List any ISTE-S standards that
seem to naturally align with the selected resource.

7. Global Collaborator
Students use digital tools to broaden their perspectives and enrich their learning by collaborating with others and working
effectively in teams locally and globally. Students:
b. use collaborative technologies to work with others, including peers, experts or community members, to examine
issues and problems from multiple viewpoints.

RESOURCE DESCRIPTION
Lino (Linoit) is a site that basically functions as a virtual bulletin board, a canvas, where people can attach “sticky notes.” A user
can have their own individual canvas for personal use such as reminders of due dates. A person could set their canvas as their
browser’s homepage, as each canvas does have its own unique URL, and that would be the first thing they see once they open it.
Users can create multiple canvases. Canvases and stickies can be visually customized when it comes to backgrounds and colors.

Sticky notes are easy to create, as they use a simple drag and drop method from a menu on the top right. Once dragged on, a box
opens that allows the user to write what they want. The box also provides the ability to add tags and due dates to the sticky, and
once set, when you click on those, only those stickies with the same tag/date will be visible which allows for easy organization.
Pictures, video links, and files can also be uploaded onto the canvas.

The collaboration aspect comes in when a user decides to share a canvas with others, which can be done in a few ways. When
creating a canvas, the user is provided with some Access to Canvas options: private use, “show stickies to everyone,” which
means people can see the creator’s posts but they cannot add anything, and “everyone may post stickies.” Furthermore, if the
user has made their canvas public, they can also choose to have it be listed on the site’s Public Canvases list, which is visible to all
users. There is also an option to allow guests (users who aren’t registered on Linoit) to post on the canvas. When someone apart
from the admin posts on the canvas, the admin receives an email notifying them about it.

Canvases are shared through simple link-sharing. There are three links for a canvas: a basic URL, a direct link in HTML format to be
posted on something like a blog, and an embedding HTML code, which allows a canvas to be embedded on something like a blog.
One user, most likely the canvas creator/admin, posts the link wherever they choose, and then anyone else with access to that
link can go on the canvas (and post their own stickies if allowed). There is the slight issue that the link could get posted elsewhere
and that outsiders could post/spam unwanted things on the canvas, and there’s no real way to prevent this with a singular
canvas, as they cannot be password-protected. The closest thing to that comes in the ability to create Groups.

In a Group, the admin has two ways to allow people to access canvases. The “Anyone” option means that anyone is permitted to
join the group, but firstly, the admin has to approve their access. The “By invitation only” option allows the admin to selectively
choose who to invite via email, and the invitee receives a unique link through an email to access the Group, including its canvases.
The admin also has control over which members can also be admins, and they can also choose to remove members.

On a canvas, the admin(s) have quite a bit of power of not just the canvas, but also other stickies. They have the exact same
control over other stickies that they do over their own stickies, which includes editing, setting due dates, sending stickies, copying
stickies to other canvases, and “peel off,” which is just deleting a sticky. Going back to before, if outsiders did post unwanted
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objects on a non-group canvas, at least the admin has that ability to delete those stickies. A guest can only edit and peel off their
own stickies.
Linoit does have a free app on the App Store and Google Play Store.

(Link to minimal example)

INTEGRATION IDEA - COLLABORATION

In my own content area, English, I could create a group for each of my classes, and then have canvases used for certain lessons.
For example, I would post a sticky first on the canvas, asking some sort of central question like “what are some traits of a well-
made character in a story?” I could then allow guests/people with profiles on Linoit to post on the canvas if they have the link. I
would provide the link by having it written on the board or on a screen in front of the class. The students could then go on the
canvas and post all their ideas on it. Then, I could display the canvas to the class and we could go over and look both common and
unique ideas that have been posted, and that then could lead into a class discussion.

If a teacher has created a group assignment for students, they could ask each group to create a Linoit Group and a shared canvas
to gather ideas that contribute or go into to the construction of the project/assignment. The teacher could then ask the groups to
share their canvases with them, so then the teacher can view some of the thoughts that occurred during the creation process, or
even links to resources that were used.

Overall, it seems like a very simple and fun to use tool if a teacher wants to gather a class’s thoughts, ideas, or resources on a
topic. I can see it being fun for younger grades, due to the creativity and customization this offers when it comes to design.

Value-Added Rating Scale

3 2 1

The integration idea described: The integration idea described: The integration idea described:

• aligns to content standards • aligns to content standards • aligns to content standards

• transforms a lesson in a way that would • enhances a lesson; likely to • serves as a nice supplement to a lesson
be impossible or very difficult without it; increase student engagement and but wouldn’t necessarily play a critical
very likely to increase student engagement support mastery of the concept(s) role within the lesson
and contribute to mastery of the
• will most likely be used by the • will most likely be used by the teacher
concept(s)
students directly during a lesson (e.g., a demonstration)
• optimal in a student-centered
environment where students are active
and engaged in learning content

VALUE-ADDED EXPLANATION
 I think Linoit functions as a great tool to have students work on one shared space to present their own findings or
opinions, while seeing what their peers have to say as well. A teacher can increase student engagement through
methods similar to the one I presented above, in which a topic is presented to students and they’re allowed to post their
ideas on it through stickies on the board. In that situation, the teacher simply gives students a starting point, and from
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there, it is up to the students to generate ideas and share whatever they come up with. Again, if for example I presented
students with the question of what makes a good character in a story, the students could be exposed to new ideas
posted on the canvas by their classmates, and they could take those ideas and apply them to their own creation process,
which would support the mastery of making a well-rounded story character. Of course, a teacher could do without Linoit,
and just write a topic and ideas on the board or have students go up and write them themselves. However. I think that
having a Linoit canvas works better if students also want to have a resource that they can look back at later if needed, or
if a teacher is in a particularly large class where having so many students up at a board at once would not be time or
space efficient. That same teacher-student model can also be emulated in a project group’s canvas, where one student
could post an idea they have or some sort of resource they want to use for the project on the canvas, and the other
members could respond with their thoughts or resources that expand on the posted idea.

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