Using puzzle as Asynchronous Collaborative Learning Activity- October 23, 2005 Here is a puzzle for you:DEIOOPRTV AAEFS EEFIMNNNOORRTV EELOOPPT ADEEEIMNNPRTX EOSTTTUWhat is this, you may ask. Well it is Twisted-Pair Puzzles suggested in this month's PLAY FOR PERFORMANCE by Thiagi. The good thing is that it is generated by software. How to solve that, read Thiagi's example.The idea behind the puzzle is to keep the player to really think hard. Once the player solved the puzzle, the message in the puzzle will be inprinted in the player's mind. So this method can be used..http://acolla.blogspot.com/2005/10/using-puzzle-as-asynchronous.html Real time collaborative notes taking- October 11, 2005 After writely and writeboard, I found another interesting collaborative writing tool called jotlive. From the website:JotSpot Live allows you, your colleagues or clients to take notes together on the same web page at the same time. Imagine everyone simultaneously typing and editing the same Microsoft Word document and you'll get the idea.More importantly, jotlive manipulates your document on a line by line basis. Almost immediately after you save, the change is reflected to the other group...http://acolla.blogspot.com/2005/10/real-time-collaborative-notes-taking.html Collaborative writing tool - writely, writeboard, wiki- October 7, 2005 I seldom write solo. Except these blogs, all my work have been collaborative efforts.I am also Linus-style write: release-often and changes often.If I initiated a paper, typically, I wrote a paragraph or two and sent to my collaborators who made edits and added ideas and more paragraphs. We did that as many times as we felt appropriate (or when the deadline came). Then we submitted the paper.The tool we used was Word and Email. For Word, we turned the tracking on. After a few turns, the...http://acolla.blogspot.com/2005/10/collaborative-writing-tool-writely.html |