- Simple, real-time messaging, and file sharing
- User email address and personal thread link
- Invite anyone
- Include any combination of people from Gmail, Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn to any thread.
- Private threads
- one-on-one threads with all of your contacts replaces email and instant messaging with a rich, organized, archived, searchable thread.
- Share a link to a thread
- post a thread as a link anywhere that lets people join the thread with one-click. Great for migrating conversations from Facebook or Twitter DMs into threads
- Desktop notifications
- Mac and PC desktop notifications of new activity in Threadbox
Educational examples:
- Teacher created thread to track students progress and to answer questions
- Student created thread to collaborate on any project
- Student created thread for synchronous telecollaborative communication
Maryland Technology standards
- Communication
- Use technology effectively and appropriately to interact electronically.
- Use technology to communicate information in a variety of formats
- Integrating Technology into the Curriculum and Instruction
- Design, implement and assess learning experiences that incorporate use of technology in a curriculum-related instructional activity to support understanding, inquiry, problem solving, communication and/or collaboration
*As of xxxxxxxx xx, 2012 Threadbox is no longer running. All hail Google, they have a similar rendition called Google Wave.
Check it out!
