Do you wiki?

Wikis are becoming increasingly popular on the web, with Wikipedia being the most famous example. People are using them for a variety of different purposes, such as creating a user updated document that defines procedures and policies or a space for collaborating on a document in real-time or near real-time. The key feature of maintaining a full archive of all content change means that you have a full record of all content created and the contribution of participants.

More and more web based wiki hosting services are being made available. In common with many other web 2.0 services they are being made available for free.

pbwiki offers a very friendly and intuitive interface that allows you to quickly and easily create a wiki. There’s no need to have any code as it has a WYSIWYG interface.

 

Atwiki also offers WYSIWYG interface, but also allows you access to the code if you want it. It also allows you to create RSS Feeds.

On-wiki, in addition to features mentioned before also allows you to create a calendar, write math using LaTex and create graphs.

These are only a tiny sample of the range of wiki services available. If you use one that we haven’t mentioned why not let us know and we’ll feature it.

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Annotate the web

Have you ever come across an interesting web page and wanted to make some notes? Now you can do it live on the web thanks to a range of new services designed to let you do just that.

Sharedcopy allows you to insert notes, mark up parts of a page and draw simple objects on a page. You can share these musings with others as well.

JumpKnowledge also allows you to insert comments to any website. You can also add comments to multiple websites if you are comparing across a variety of sources. If you are doing research and come across  web pages which you fear may not last long, annotating them with JumpKnowledge will help preserve them.

MyStickies allows you to place a sticky note on any web page you visit. When you come back to the page, your sticky note is still there.

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Using online whiteboards to collaborate

Separated by space and/or time and want to collaborate with others? Why not try an online whiteboard?

With a whiteboard everyone can put their ideas up on the screen for all to see. Ideas can be quickly sketched out, developed or discarded.

There are plenty of examples of whiteboards on the web for you to try. Why not start out with these examples, Imagination cubed, Skrbl, or Thinkature

So now there’s no excuse for not getting group work done.

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