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Cozimo is a tool that allows one to create markups on documents such as pdfs, pictures, and videos. It also is available for a free trial download, then prices go up to 249 dollars per month for the corporate use. Some creative advantages to Cozimo are that it allows people to communicate directly onto images. It allows for synchronized video collaboration, as well as online presentations and reviews.
 * Cozimo**
 * Introduction to Cozimo**


 * Overview**

Cozimo is a simple, easy and effective way to collaborate digital content and media into one project. This can be done with just one other person, or a multitude of people around the world. It allows for image and video markups which can be shared with many people, in order to collaborate ideas and creativly construct media.

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 * Tutorials**


 * Advantages**
 * secure and confidential
 * convinient, and easy to use: Every page in Cozimo provides instructions and tips to guide you through the use of the program
 * people can work together at the same time, or individually at any time
 * there is no installation needed because it is completely web based, only internet required
 * because it allows one to make marks directly on an image or document, anyone viewing the media, can see what you are seeing


 * Limitations**


 * Limited size availability- only 60 MB file size limit
 * Cost of purchasing it can be expensive


 * Usage in Classroom**

Cozimo could be an effective and creative tool used in the classroom, because it allows students to collaborate on creative projects. For example, the students could use it for a states project to post and mark different states in order to present information on each one, in order to make a virtual "book" of state facts etc. Also, an idea would be for a family tree project. The students could create a family tree of everyone in the classroom all interconnecting by similarities that they each have with each other. Each person could connect through collaberation by family background, favorite colors, sports, birthdays, etc.

For a high school classroom, this tool could be used for smaller groups to create videos together. For example, in math, students could create a video on derivatives and intergrals, showing graphs of each particular function and fluxuating back and forth between the function and its derivatives, then the derivative and it's integral which brings it back to the function. Students could explain and highlight critical points, end points and other important points on the function.

In both an elementary and secondary setting, the teacher's role would be to oversee the projects created using this tool. They would use it as the final product to be graded and could monitor to ensure that all of the students contributed. In elementary, the teacher would need to provide more assistance in the actual process of collaberation, because of the age group.