Hi, I like the typeface you all used for your wordle art. How interesting how one can receive learning from this tool! :) MARY

Wetpaint Wiki was most effective when used with other synchronous communcation tools such as Elluminate. Although it did help us organize meeting notes, meeting times,etc, if the individuals in the group didnt check it often, it wasnt very useful. I think Wetpaint is more effective when you have consistent communication utilizing tool with active users. On the other hand, as far as keeping individuals abreast of the group activities and comments on specific topics and assignments, it did great.

Hi Professor, Yes Wiki tools are quite useful and I do plan to incorporate them into the Unit Plan, and I think one of the many ways to make sure students are utilizing the tools are to grade them on their contributions. In order for this to happen though, an assignment that would be further enhanced through wiki would have to be created that would require extensive usage of the wiki ( similar to the treatise paper) and as the discussant was being graded, it would be used in a similar manner. * this sounds neat as I write, but I wonder how difficult it would be to implement?* ..lol! Thanks Professor! :)

I think the five most critical elements of distributed learning are the following: Effective Collaboration Integration of Creativity with guided expectations Effective Communication Tools Incorporation of Web 2.0 tools for indepth learning Involved Moderators/Instructors to Guide Learning

Hi Everyone, I added a sticky note here to let you all know I added the conversation from Elluminate between Max and me. Again, sorry they changed the time for my mom's dinner and my second to oldest sister wouldnt let me use her laptop to let you all know where I was....she is in school to but she could have let me used for a sec...lol. Thanks. I think I may try to send you all a video discussing my thoughts on the assignment but we will see how that works out...take care.

I think that this is a cool theme for the Flock social browser.....this is a test to utilize the DIIGO tool...lol! thanks mary