collab_writing_spaces

• Services
• Skype
• http://skype.com/
• D2L chat
• Must be activated in D2L
• Edit Course > Nav Bars (bottom left) > (add) Chat > Create a New Chat
• Google Voice
• http://www.google.com/voice
• Use
• Virtual office hours
• Study group
• Chat / Group chat paired with writing in shared documents
• Google Voice allows me to record individual and group phone calls and post the recordings to D2L for study and discussion.
• Individual
• I keep Skype running throughout the day. I field questions (usually by text chat) as they come in. A stitch in time saves nine!
• I also keep designated virtual office hours.
• Group
• Writing games
• Group Story
• Group structured writing
• Cues for structured writing may point to expectations for content and expectations for style / rhetorical function.

• Services
• Etherpad
• http://etherpad.com/
• Google Docs
• http://docs.google.com
• Zoho Writer
• http://writer.zoho.com
• Buzzword
• http://buzzword.acrobat.com
• Use
• I use EtherPad for rapid, short-lived collaboration. My favorite activity to do in an EtherPad is collaborative outlining. The resulting text is then transferred to a more full-featured shared document for further development.
• Example: http://etherpad.com/I2jcJhFE3L
• I also like to dump and shape text in EtherPad. It feels sculptural.
• I use shared documents extensively in ENGL 101, where I comment on each stage of scaffolded writing assignments as students complete them.

• Google Sites
• http://sites.google.com
• Zoho Wiki
• http://wiki.zoho.com
• PBWorks
• http://pbworks.com/
• Use
• I use wikis for individual research projects in ENGL 201. Typically, I let everyone on the wiki see every page of the wiki; that way students can watch each other's projects develop and comment on them as they do. This is another case of scaffolded assignments with incremental comments.
• Example: ENGL 201 (private)
• Augmented Storage
• Dropio
• http://drop.io/
• Uses
• I envision using Dropio to stage interacite multimedia research repositories.
• Example: http://drop.io/B8cQyxEU (guest password is dsu)
• Asynchronous Discussion
• D2L Discuss
• Use
• I have taken to having students post very loose writing to a discussion topic, then generate discussion by commenting on each other's loose writing.
• In some courses I assign each student a separate discussion topic for use as a work log. In work logs, students narrate their work. Students may comment on each other's work stories.