Sunday, September 16, 2007

Tech Tip 138 - Sharing The Load With Web 2.0

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When I was in high school and college in the 1980s, I couldn’t count the number of group projects that I had to take part in. In those days, to get anything done the members of the group met—usually in a library—to come up with strategies and divide the work. Then, we’d go off and take care of our portions of the project. If we needed to contact each other, there were nighttime phone calls. Then, just before the project was due, we’d dump our notes on someone and they’d type everything out.

That way of doing things wasn’t very efficient, and it was definitely low tech. But in the days before the Internet, when even desktop computers were a bit of a rarity, that’s how we got things done. Luckily, the situation has changed. There are a number of great Web-based tools that can help students efficiently manage and collaborate on group projects.

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