Welcome to Writing in the Cloud!

This session will focus on the use of online tools that support a collaborative writing process. Tools like blogs and wikis allow multiple authors to collaborate on a single web-based document, without transferring files back and forth. Blogs are often viewed as online journals to which others can respond that are as simple to use as e-mail, yet they can serve many other academic purposes. Wikis are Web pages that can be viewed and modified by anyone with a Web browser and Internet access. Described as a composition system, a discussion medium, and a repository, wikis support asynchronous communication and group collaboration online. The inherent simplicity of both blogs and wikis makes them ideal technologies for online collaborative writing.

In this session, participants will work with both blogs and wikis and explore potential educational applications for writing in the cloud.

We'll be using this blog as the interactive online handout for the blogging portion of the session.