Online Collaboration

In the first class I took for this degree one assignment was a major group presentation. While my group met up and worked together a bit, in the end my partners emailed me their notes and I dropped them into a PowerPoint. A wiki or other online collaborative service would have made the project much easier to put together. I think wikis, Google Docs and other web 2.0 services are a great way for a group of people to create something, especially when they can't meet in person often or are working at different times.

A few of my professors have already started incorporating wikis and other collaboration tools and methods into their classes. All of my professors have at the very least used eCollege to share class readings and some have allowed their students to post related articles or work as well. While I'm sure not all the professors would be comfortable with a group writing one paper in Google docs, I believe that the professors I have had thus far would at least consider the idea.