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10 Jan

Virtual Writing Teams

Posted by poetcsw in collaboration, online, wiki

This semester another instructor and I are going to attempt "across-section" collaboration on projects. For a large project pairs or threesomes of students from his writing section will collaborate with pairs from my section of a technical writing course. The goal is to have students experience online collaboration similar to an all-online course, but with with an extensive safety net.

Anyone else work with a colleague to create virtual teams? What worked and what didn't?

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19 Aug

12 Online Tools for Students w/Reviews

Posted by Matt Barton in online, reviews, tools

PC Magazine has published a list of 12 Tools for students who want to stay organized this semester. The list includes the usual suspects (RateMyProfessors, Facebook), but there are some here that I hadn't heard of before, such as MyPunchBowl, Mint, and TheDailyPlate. There are also some citation and bib tools here, though I think Word's new built-in bib tools pretty much render them superfluous.

26 Jul

Virtual Reality in Real LIfe (VR@RL) Conference Ongoing

Posted by AlexReid in conferences, new media, online

The VR@RL conference is going on now. There are a number of interesting pieces to check out at http://vrrl06.earthwidemoth.com.