Associate Professor, Communication, Film, and Journalism, Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, PA
This semester in Writing for Electronic Communities I would like to try a collaborative writing assignment that uses a wiki or GoogleDocs. I’ve never done a collaborative writing assignment before. The assignment would have the following goals: introduce students to wikis and/or Google Docs as a collaborative writing space as distinguished from blogging and…
There has been much discussion lately about how Twitter is being used in the undergraduate classroom. Daisy Pignetti describes how she used Twitter in 3 sections (2 online, 1 in person) of English 102 at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. Monica Rankin discusses how she implemented what she has described as the “Twitter Experiment” into…