David writes about NoteMesh, a collaborative note keeping tool (wiki) for students. He states, "if I were still teaching history, I would never make another study guide for my students. Part of their job, as my students, is to make their own study guide using the classroom wiki. Basically, ...
Assoc prof of English: "Having found a fairly serious problem on Wikipedia, I contacted the owners of the site. They were less interested in the problem than I was (they were violating copyright) and one of them argued with me about it. I don't know what they did about it, ...
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In September I have a couple of hours for a presentation. I plan on demonstrating a few tools: Picasa2, Scuttle (social bookmarking), flickr, and PlanetPlanet. Ideally I'd like to give folks a chance to participate and actally do something. The most common comment I get on evaluations from these types ...
The other night in some truly free-form surfing I came across an interesting post on the dilemma of whether to publish a complete RSS feed or story excerpts. It reminded me of a recent post by James, To publish full RSS or not to publish full RSS. At issue ...
I discovered that Google Desktop search not only indexes the files on your local computer but also files on any mounted network drive. This is tremendous news for us here at Zane State because we have a drive like no other, the dreaded "common" drive. This is the drive ...
I have dominion over a handful of laptops that faculty can check out of the IDEA Center. After MIS puts the base image on the laptop (operating system, Novell stuff, MS Office) they hand it over to me to add whatever I want. Then MIS captures the image and pushes ...
Alan asks where the shining examples of successful wikis (aside from Wikipedia) are. True, wikis are hard to get your head around--I'm still struggling with the concept--but should we use them because they are there? Obviously there has to be some need for a collaborative space, and I wonder ...