In today’s podcast, I talk about a little collaborative writing experiment that I began last week, what I think worked, what perhaps didn’t, and share some of my thinking about why such things might be important. Certainly a first draft thinking podcast. Here’s the original EtherPad document, still available for editing and revision, as well as a PDF copy of the text as it exists at the time of this post. I’d be curious as to your thinking about the value of tools like these and how we might use them to create and converse. I like that Stephen expands the idea of very much. He’s right, of course.
The Podcast: EtherPad & Collaborative Writing
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I like the idea of using this with students to share experiences, struggles, confusions in writing. So often, they don’t see that writing, for all of us, truly is a process…sometimes one that involves going nowhere fast.
I also see this as useful for brainstorming with students, especially for position essays.
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I find the idea of this fascinating. Like you, I have struggled with multiple students trying to edit the same wiki pages at the same time. I think this might well have interesting applications. Perhaps the task needs to be more narrowly defined and the time as well!
Hi Bud. Nice experiment and thanks for pointing out Etherpad too. Have you taken a look at Mixed Ink? Just curious – I haven’t used it but thought it looked interesting: http://www.mixedink.com/main.php
Wow. I love it. Thanks for the pointer.
nice bud. all the way through. and ongoing…
great modeling for all of us. i really appreciate the way you stretch us.
i have never heard you speak – so the podcast was really good for me. your presence is what i was hoping – non-pretentious – genuine.
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Useful experiment! Thanks for sharing. Also, you may want to look at this collaborative group based content preparation – http://www.funnelbrain.com. In case you find it useful…