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I want to go to a website similar to, say, Blogger, and press CREATE NEW PROJECT WORLD. It would then create a single place where there are wiki capabilities like collaborative editing with a record of who did what, file storage capabilities, blogging+commenting/emailing within the group, etc. Just one big thingie.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
ProjectWorld 2.0
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Hey Steve,
Just want to thank you for always expressing on your blog what I'm thinking to myself. If it's any consolation, I've set up links in my Blackboard course shell to launch the various 2.0 apps (Blogger, pbwiki, my own Dreamweaver-designed web page). This gives students the illusion of a one-stop technology service. That said, I learned yesterday that pbwiki loses functionality when accessed from within the Bb shell. Oh well ... the search continues.
And yes, I think SharePoint has promise. I wonder if it works well with Macs.
I think the best part of this Blue 2.0 experience is finding others who have the same technology desires and frustrations that I do. I teach almost exclusively online. I still use BB with my one face-to-face class. Like Steve and Ellen, I want one-stop shopping for my students. I have set up SharePoint (already deleted the blog). It works well enough, but it's still not the answer I am looking for (especially as a Mac person - it works, but it's still a Windows product). I love Steve's Create a New Project World button. Shall we get the development team going now?
That said, the ning concept is almost there (http://www.ning.com/). We are using it for our youth literature conference that I am in charge, and I am happy with it overall. Still not quite there. But, I have not checked for other similar options.
Drupal (http://drupal.org/) might be there as I think they are the ultimate CMS right now, but the technology is over my head at this point.
I deleted one wiki yesterday, but still have three going, including SharePoint. I have blogs on Blogger, WordPress, and some place else. I have two working nings, and my own Web pages on the UK shared space. Add that to many Bb courses and it is all too much. I will be deleting more as I decide which I like better-if I can.
I wonder if the wiki and blog function that is now available on Blackboard would work well for you? Please contact Patsy via e-mail for more direct instructions.
I am using those features but not in the same way I would use them if they were accessible to all my students in all my classes. I use the wiki for sharing documents within a particular class and the blog for reading journals. Unless I can have a Bb shell for ongoing use with all my students (which we had in WebCT at my alma mater), then I prefer external wiki and blog sources for those features. For example, I will be blogging live on my WordPress blog when I go to a conference first of next week. I have students and colleagues who will be following the blog. The blog feature in Bb is not efficient for this because then I have to blog in multiple classes. They all have merit, I am just a weird librarian who wants it all in one place. =)
Stephanie, thank you for the insight and a better understanding of the issue you are facing with wikis and blogs.
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