Hey everybody, yesterday we learned about collaborative workspaces. We looked at four main tools:
Remember! The internet was invented so that people far away could share information with each other. In that sense, the internet's future will be the same as the past. Use collaborative workspaces to connect people and to create new information together with them.
- Wikis, e.g. Wikipedia and Debatepedia. To learn more about WikiMedia or to create your own wiki (it's really easy!) go to the WikiMedia homepage. You all got to experience how easy it is to edit wiki pages without knowing any code, but if you do want to learn more about editing wiki pages, check out these links: Editing Cheatsheet and Editing Tools.
- Google Docs. Use Google Docs! This is one of the easiest and most useful collaborative workspaces on the internet.
- Forums. We showed you KARL, which is OSI's content managemnt system (CMS). It is not open source and it can only be used by people who are invited by OSI employees. It's a good example, however, of how forums can be better communication tools than email when dealing with lots of people. Don't forget our class has its own KARL community, complete with blog and wiki. If you want to create your own forum community, the best place to do it is probably Google Groups, especially because it will work well with all of your other Google tools and accounts.
- Moodle. You saw Moodle, a free, online curriculum software. Creating your own Moodle course is easy. We will also be putting the Citizen Journalism curriculum on Moodle, and as soon as that is complete, we'll give you that link.
Remember! The internet was invented so that people far away could share information with each other. In that sense, the internet's future will be the same as the past. Use collaborative workspaces to connect people and to create new information together with them.
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