This paper discusses writing as a social practice and speculates on how wikis might be used to promote higher quality academic writing and support collaborative learning. This study of undergraduate teacher trainees' online learning activities focuses on how shared spaces--wikis--might be used to communicate ideas and generate course-specific…

This article describes two very different projects undertaken in the same basic writing course: collaborative ethnography and ACT test prep. At first glance, it appears that the work on collaborative ethnography accomplished our goal of creating better, more self-conscious writers while the work on test prep achieved our goal of creating better…

Web-based productivity tools help people collaborate, communicate, and save time--and the good news is most are free. This article presents five good strategies for using web-based productivity tools: (1) Clean out your inbox and focus your professional development with RSS; (2) Share your documents online with wikis or online productivity…

Offers an eight-step approach to the team writing process that will help document managers avoid, minimize, and resolve problems found in the team writing process. (SR)

Offers an edited version of the E-mail conversation between the authors, examining their process of collaboration as they worked within a triad of existing hypertexts among which they wove a fourth new work called "Izme Pass." (SR)

It is now generally agreed that "output" functions to promote language learning through focus on form. Empirical studies reveal that oral communicative tasks can arouse learners' negotiation of meaning, but they are not so effective in bringing about focus on form. Hence, researchers have suggested using collaborative writing tasks to…

In search of strategies for increasing their pre-service teachers' thoughtful engagement with content and in an effort to model connection between choice of technology and pedagogical goals, the authors utilized collaborative software during class time. Collaborative software allows all students to write simultaneously on a single collective…

The Zine Project helps students and teachers consider the assumptions and expectations we have about how literacy functions in school and community contexts. In this article, Tobi Jacobi examines the relationships among composition theory, community literacy practices, and service learning, taking into account the complex possibilities and…

Noting that the paper might never have been completed if the authors had not used Dissoi Logoi to allow themselves to disagree and converse on paper, this paper suggests that consensus in collaborative writing happens but that forced consensus is a bad influence on imaginative scholars. Written in a "double voice," this paper highlights…

Interviews children's authors Lee Hadley and Annabelle Irwin, coauthors publishing under the pseudonym of Hadley Irwin. (MM)

Uses multiple typefaces to express multiple voices that call into question the conventional wisdom about collaboration and collaborative writing. Presents vignettes. Discusses "indefinite definitions," multivalent texts/ambivalent authors, collaboration and community, collaboration and identity, and collaboration qua textuality. (RS)

Explains the process of collaboration among three composition teachers. Discusses personal, professional, and textual goals. Explores metaphor as a means to describe the authors' collective approach. Discusses pedagogical implications of the collaboration. (RS)

Describes the use of the collaborative poem in poetry therapy groups with low functioning patients in a psychiatric unit. Shows the collaborative poem to be an effective technique in fostering group cohesion and instilling contact with reality. (SR)

The research explains wiki development and use in industry and potential benefits in higher education as a collaborative communication tool. The findings of a study conducted in a business administration class involving the use of wikis is discussed. The paper concludes with useful guidelines for college instructors incorporating wikis as a…

In the 2007-2008 school year, Jennifer Hunt, language arts teacher for the 8th grade pre-Advanced Placement class wondered how she could harness the power of Web 2.0 tools to develop her students' literacy skills and deepen their engagement with literature and ideas. To that end, she wrote a successful Qwest Arizona Technology in Education…