Writing instructors who teach online or in networked classrooms are embracing highly collaborative Web 2.0 applications in their writing pedagogy. This essay collection, under contract with Fountainhead Press in the X Series for Professional Development, seeks to provide writing instructors with examples of writing classroom pedagogy that has creatively and effectively used new Web 2.0 applications in composition courses (such as FYC, Research Writing, Basic Writing, Argumentative Writing,and so forth).

I've been working on a chapter for Charlie and Pavel's collection and came across 5 Great Alternatives To Google Docs You Should Consider by David Pierce. I hadn't heard hardly anything about these before reading the article, and one is even made by Adobe (Buzzword). One called Zoho even gives you a personal wiki!

Read/Write/Web reports on Rheingold's new project--the "Social Classroom." According to the story, it is "an open-source Drupal-based web service to teachers and students for the purpose of introducing social media into the classroom."

So, is this anything more that a Drupal distribution designed for learning and teaching? I think a lot of us who use Drupal-based sites already do that stuff. Perhaps I am missing something.

Abhay Parekh recently launched a new application, Flowgram, that those in the computers and writing crowd may want to check out. Think of it as Powerpoint-plus. An online screencasting program, Flowgram enables you to load URLs, images, and Powerpoints onto the web, to add layered audio, notes, and highlighting, and then to play the pages or to share them.