Collaboration of online educational instruction: Analysis of the use of online teaching tools for high school students

This paper presents the results of a research project on a collaborative work among students performing online activities. About one hundred students from three high schools, in the suburbs and outlying areas of Perugia, were involved in an experiment based on a software system that we have called Talenet. This tool was developed to test the effectiveness of an interactive environment that allows students and teachers to share the analysis of a collection of Romantic ballads. Twelve Italian Romantic ballads were chosen within four themes: patriotic, sentimental, social, and historical & legendary. The results of this experimental study are: an increase in learning literature in this particular case by building a bridge between the classroom experience and the informal network learning, an increase in the students´ motivation to study and to boost their creativity and their experience in network sharing with members of their and other classes. Opinions, emotions, and materials from other websites, basically any thoughts the students wished to share with their friends. were among the shared things.