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"in general students felt that collaborating with partners improved the quality of drafts. On the other hand, the students mostly felt that their edits improved other people's drafts, whereas other people's edits worsened their own drafts."
"I mentioned in an earlier post how much I liked Scrivener as a writing tool. As I used the program to write some learning goals for an upcoming course, I began to realize how powerful it is for facilitating the entire course development process."
Sync.in is a web based word processor for people to collaborate in real-time.\n\nWhen multiple people edit the same document simultaneously, any changes are instantly reflected on everyone's screen. The result is a new and productive way to collaborate with text documents, useful for meeting notes, brainstorming, project planning, training, and more.
In this electronic age, new writing technologies seem to proliferate and evolve with alarming speed -- but of course, people have been coming up with new ways to communicate their thoughts for as long as language has existed at all. Writing itself -- writes Dennis Baron -- was once the object of much suspicion; Plato wrote that it could attenuate human memory, since writing things down would obviate the need to memorize them. In his new book, A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution (Oxford University Press), Baron looks at the history of writing implements and communication technologies, and explores the digital revolution's impact on how we write, how we learn, and how we connect with one another. - Inside Higher Ed
The idea that we can actually see change over time in a person’s thinking is fascinating. Darwin scholars are of course familiar with this story, but here we can view it directly, both on a macro-level as it animates, or word-by-word as we examine pieces of the text more closely.
in list: Evolution
Facebook encourages narcissistic blabbering, video and PowerPoint have replaced carefully crafted essays, and texting has dehydrated language into "bleak, bald, sad shorthand" (as University College of London English professor John Sutherland has moaned). An age of illiteracy is at hand, right?
in list: Clones, Drones and Cyborgs
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"If you looking for a good collaborative way to review your documents, try HyLighter collaboration platform. You can think about it as a mini GoogleDocs that focuses on the discussions and reviews from the people you share it with."
"After describing some content-free critical thinking tests as a result of the Delphi project, this article describes holistic and analytical rubrics developed by various practitioners, ending with examples that provide useful feedback on student thinking without using rubrics."
"Question: What is the advantage of using a service such as Google Docs? I already have a word processor on my computer, so why would I choose to use an online word processor?" (Techlearning)
"Collaborative writing is useful for projects, for peer-editing, and for many other writing tasks limited only by teacher/student imagination. Web-based collaborative writing tools may be used by teachers to provide feedback on student assignments, to make suggestions and comments on a projects and highlighting required changes to a member of the project."
"The easiest way to keep a journal on the web."
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