Collaboration Tools: What's Out There?

Seminars in Academic Computing Conference, August 10, 2005
What are practical considerations in using collaboration tools for teaching from the perspectives of students, faculty, and support staff? This session will explore wikis, blogs, image sharing tools (such as Flickr), and bookmark/URL managers (such as de.licio.us) through these different viewpoints.

Note: This session is more of a discussion session so this is not a formal presentation and is really my set of things to pull out of the web to show as demos- Alan

What Does "Collaboration Tools" Mean To You?

Audience participation! To be wiki-edited...
Kinds of tools? Kinds of practices? Where used? For what purposes? Formal or informal? Hosted or remote?

What Does "Collaboration Tools" Mean To Elementary School Kids?

If you are worried about the "Net Geneeration", the one after that will make your head spin.
Internet connectivity allowing, we hope to connect via audio/video chat with Tim Lauer, principal at Lewis Elementary school inn Portland, Oregon. A principal that blogs! Students and teachers in Tim's school are using Blog, wikis, and more:

• Remixing Wikis for Elementary School Classrooms: Instiki, Wifi, and Rendezvous Teachers set up wiki sites for students that are accessed locally on their network using Apple Rendevouz technology
• Bus Schedule Widget: TriMet Transit Tracker Widget GPS data from bus system displayed as RSS ticker

Alan's Grab Bag

Flickr http://flickr.com/

• My photos http://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/
• Sets http://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/sets/18174/
• Syndication to other sites http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/cdb/
• Tags and Tag Surfing Mine Everyone's Grand Canyon Eyeball Iraq
• Groups: Squared Circle Recipes to Share Literature Hoedown
• Hotspots Tarte au citron Volcano Diagram Art History Class
• Reuse is Simple: Flickr Creative Commons
• Interesting Twists Digital Scrapbook flicktion
• Open APIs allow third party integration: Tag Related Browser Flickr Graph Flickr Vancouver aerial map Flickr Montager Flickr Album Spell with Flickr Flickr Postcard Browser Mastercards with flickr

Social Bookmarking Tools

• Furl
• del.icio.us
• Frassle
• Connotea
• CiteULike
• Simpy
• Linkroll
• Blogmarks
• OpenBM
• Spurl
• de.lirio.us
• feedmarker
• scuttle
• jots
• Netvouz
• Blinklist
• Wists

Deliciously Tagged

• My bookmarks Syndication to blog sidebar
• My tags Everyone's tags
• Liz Dorland's Chemistry Class tags http://del.icio.us/chem130
• Group Resource building (shared tagging) Mine Everyone (tag pollution?)
• Popular tags http://del.icio.us/popular/
• Open APIs allows things like Vox delicii Trendalicious fac.etio.us extisp.icio.us

Wild Wiki World- free external hosted wikis

• Tiddly Wiki http://www.tiddlywiki.com/
• Seed Wiki http://www.seedwiki.org/
• Peanut Butter Wiki (password protected) http://pbwiki.com/ ex Professor Cooper's Freshman Composition Wiki!
• Web Collaborator http://webcollaborator.com/
• Wikispaces http://www.wikispaces.org
• Jot Spot http://www.jot.com/

Large Data Sets Nicely Joined

• Chicago Crime Data http://www.chicagocrime.org/
• Housing and Google Maps http://paulrademacher.com/housing
• Census and Google Maps http://www.gcensus.com/i

Rip/Mixing It Up

• Feedburner http://www.feedburner.com/ My blog + flickr photos + del.icio.us links
• Technorati http://www.technorati.com tagged blogs, photos e.g. sac2005 tagged items
• Small Technologies Loosely Joined e.g. Ocotillo dicole
• Rip. Mix. Learn.
• Rip. Mix. Feed. Decentralization of Learning Resources: Syndicating Learning Objects Using RSS, Trackback, and Related Technologies