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Why Collaborate?
What is Web 2.0? (or "What was Web 1.0?")
- Tim O'Reilly's classic article
- YouTube video explanation
- Wikipedia entry
- Seven Things You Should Know About... blogs, wikis, podcasting, RSS, course management, personal response systems, e-books, Creative Commons, open source, etc.
- Common Craft videos: short video explanations of many tools and processes.
- http://del.icio.us/martindale/web2.0 -- my Web 2.0 links
- The 2007 Web 2.0 Awards
- http://www.go2web20.net/ -- massive collection of services.
Social Bookmarking (or, "Why we'll soon all be librarians").
Course-related collections:
Blogs and blogging (or, "I think I have something to say")
Purpose: for documenting processes, keeping date-stamped records, helping people connect, and generating ideas and innovations. Blogs are typically "individual-centric" whereas wikis are generally used for groups building a common resource (such as an encyclopedia).
A blog can take the form of a newspaper, newsletter, journal, public forum, external brain, etc.
Blog affordances and features include:
- dated entries, archived content, and commenting
- easily publishing a sophisticated site with search, archives, formatting.
- auto-syndication with RSS.
- images, audio, video.
Blog examples
Free blog services (they host)
- http:edublogs.org
- http://wordpress.com
- http://blogger.com
Free blog software (you download and host)
- Wordpress.org
- Moveable Type
What is RSS and why is it important?
Sample RSS Feed
What is an aggregator, and why should I use one?
Podcasting (or, "Is this microphone on?")
- A podcast is a show--a series of recorded audio or video posted to the web, and retrievable as a subscription (RSS feed).
- large collection of podcasting resources
- iTunesU is a hosted collection of university podcasts.
Content Management (or, "Get your stuff together")
All these are free, and must be hosted on a server:
- Drupal
- Plone
- Joomla
- CivicSpace
Video Sharing (or, "Ready for my close-up")
- YouTube
- TeacherTube
- videojug.com? videojug--eric says it is great.
Social Networking (or, "Get to know me")
- Facebook
- MySpace
- Linked In
- ELGG
Image and Slide Sharing (or, "I can bore you with slides online now!")
- Flickr
- Slideshare
- Picasa
News
Collaborative Writing Tools
- Zoho: collaborative everything.
- Google Docs collaborative word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations.
Wikis (or, "Can't we all just get along?")
What are wikis and how do they work?
- Video: Wikis in Plain English
- A wiki is a piece of server-based software that enables the user to edit a web page via the web browser. There are many variations in terms of types of wikis. A common feature is the easy creation of new wiki “pages” by combining words to form a web link to a new document. Most wikis include a basic shorthand so that users can create web documents without needing to know HTML.
- The most well-known and largest example of a wiki is probably Wikipedia—a vast web-based encyclopedia. Wikipedia is being developed and managed by a large group of vigilant contributors from around the globe. It is the largest written "document" in the history of civilization.
Here's a nice presentation by Brian Lamb introducing wikis. In a wiki, of course.
There are many other types of wikis.
- Wikipedia
- Wikibooks
- Wikiquote
- Wiki-How. How to do stuff.
- Psychology Wiki
- Martindale course wiki
- EduTech Wiki, all about educational technology, from the Unversity of Geneva
- Sloan-C wiki about online teaching and learning. Fantastic resource.
- http://www.complexive.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page -- a wiki used to organize a corporate e-learning conference in Nov. 2007.
General articles about using a wiki
- Seven things you should know about wikis
- Executive's Guide to Blogs, Wikis, and RSS (PDF)
- Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not
- Wikipatterns: a wiki book about patterns of how wikis are adopted, and how people respond. Very interesting.
Bonus: papers from the 2006 International Symposium on Wikis
Wikis as tools for teaching, collaboration, project management, and knowledge management
- Case Study: Using a Wiki for Documentation and Collaborative Authoring
- Growing Collection of Enterprise 2.0 Success Stories from Bill Ives
- Using wikis on an intranet, from the British Council.
- Wikis a disruptive innovation, (about knowledge management
- wiki as an alternative to email (learners put links to their blogs or resources on a wiki rather than email them all to you)
- shared to-do lists
- writing an book or procedure manual using a wiki - distributed error checking
Problems: Security, vandalism, and version control
- Wikis are easy to vandalize, and even easier to fix.
- Some wikis enable users to receive email or RSS notifications of changes. Or to create a "watch list" of pages.
- Soft security vs. hard security.
How to start a wiki
- Setting up a wiki, from opencontent.org
- How to Start a Wiki, from wikibooks.org.
Choosing a wiki
- Wiki Matrix -- one site to compare them all.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_software
Free hosted wikis:
Free host-yourself wikis
- Mediawiki. This software runs Wikipedia, so obviously it can handle a large load.
- PMwiki. I use this.
Companies selling "enterprise" social software services
- http://www.xerceo.com/web/guest/about
- Atlassian Confluence
- Google Sites (formerly JotSpot)
Handy wiki tools
- http://diberri.dyndns.org/wikipedia/html2wiki/ -- convert HTML to wiki markup.
- Tiddlywiki--your personal nonlinear notebook.
Mashups
- Dr. Mashup; or, Why Educators Should Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Remix. Article by Brian Lamb in Educause Review
- Wikipedia definition
- What is a mashup (video interview and transcript
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