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Does FERPA ban schools from allowing students to post their schoolwork on the open Web? Yesterday, Georgia Tech deleted all student history and participation from the school's "Swikis," the wikis that students use for their coursework. Georgia Tech has been using wikis for this purpose since 1997, pioneering the usage of the collaborative tools for undergraduate education. One of the features of the school's wikis was that they allowed for cross-course and cross-semester communication. You could, should you choose, remain in a wiki for a class you'd taken previously, for example.

Three "best educational wikis" of 2009 from Wikispaces. Although these are all K-12 examples, they are still models of the use of wikis in education.

Example blog for SP204, Conversational Spanish

We should make better use of Atomic Learning like in this example.

Show Me Whats Wrong is a very ambitious site w/ a great idea. This would be a site that is designed for people who need help w/ their computer issues. For example, one would go to Show Me Whats Wrong, type in name and email address and it generates a unique URL.

"The commons serves to increase access to publicly-held photography collections, and to provide a way for the general public to contribute information and knowledge." This is a great example of the socialization of information

how does Twitter change the truth?

VoiceThread With VoiceThread, group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. All with no software to install. A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.