[Crosstalk] Final Crosstalk of the semester - Collaboration tools

[Phillip Long]

OEIT is pleased to announce the final Crosstalk of the semester on  
the topic of Collaboration Tools, with a particular focus on using  
blogs and wikis in teaching.  The session will feature the  
experiences of faculty and instructors from Sloan, the Laboratory for  
Energy and the Environment, and the Program on Writing and Humanistic  
Studies teaching using these tools.  Please join us in the TEAL 1  
Active Learning Classroom, 26-152, Tuesday morning, May 22nd, at  
10:30 am for a lively panel and discussion about blogs, wikis, and  
other collaboration tools that you think we should be using more at MIT.

Where: 26-152 (TEAL1 Classroom)
When: 10:30 am - noon
Date: May 22, 2007,

Title:  Collaboration Tools

Panelists:
Prof. Donald Lessard, Epoch Foundation Professor of International  
Management, Sloan School
Dr. Amanda Graham, Laboratory for Energy and the Environment
Jennifer Craig, Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies / Dept. of  
Aeronautics and Astronautics

Abstract
The proliferation of network-based collaboration and social  
networking tools brings new challenges and opportunities for  
teaching. Wikis provide flexible, easily edited, web-based platforms  
for collaboration that can be used for any number of pedagogical  
tasks, from class projects to lab how-tos to course design. Blogs can  
provide a more individualized platform for student reflection. The  
collaborative environment of the classroom itself can be  
technologically altered through the use of classroom response systems  
and related tools.

What structure or set of practices makes for an effective teaching  
wiki? How can a professor efficiently and effectively negotiate a  
classes-worth of student blog posts? In this seminar we will hear  
from instructors who are currently using collaboration technologies  
in their classes. After some short presentations, we'll have further  
discussion of collaboration tools in general. This seminar will serve  
as the introduction to OEIT's new Collaboration Tools Program Area,  
and we very much want to solicit your ideas to help guide us as we  
move forward.




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