Wikis
Turbo-Charged Wikis: Technology Embraces Cooperative Learning
Posted February 16th, 2009 by Jon F. Orech, Downers Grove South High School
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Jon Orech offers suggestions and resources for use of wikis in the classroom.
Three Stars and a Chili Pepper: Social Software, Folksonomy, and User Reviews in the College Context
Posted June 9th, 2006 by Joseph Ugoretz, Macaulay Honors College--CUNY
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Joe Ugoretz discusses how a new group of internet tools--Google, Wikis, Flickr and others included in the family of social software”--provide new methods of creating, sharing, categorizing, accessing and critiquing content, while lacking a central authority or a hierarchy of editorial control. Joe presents some suggestions “for how we, in the academic world, the college context, can use these tools to the advantage of our teaching and our students’ learning.”
Writely
Posted December 9th, 2005 by Bryan Alexander, Center for Educational Technology, NITLE
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Bryan Alexander discusses the pros and cons of this beta wiki product and ultimately rates it "worth the experiment."
