The following online tools have helped me in collaborating digitally with my group mates for a project!
- Wetpaint
- Diigo
- Evernote
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"Wetpaint is a free wiki hosting service (or wiki farm) founded in October 2005. All wiki URLs are a subdomain of "wetpaint.com". Wetpaint targets non-technical internet users who want to collaborate online, and therefore attempts to include easy to use features, such as a three step wiki creation wizard. In March 2008, Wetpaint added social networking features. Wetpaint is free of charge and supported by contextual advertising. Established educational sites are ad-free upon request." Answers.com, retrieved March 9th, 2009.
Check out my Wetpaint project!
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"Diigo (DEE-go) is a Social bookmarking website which allows signed users to
Diigo is very helpful as it helps me to easily highlight anything I want, especially the main points. I can make sticky notes which can be either private or public! This allows me to quickly recall what I've learnt from the website, most of the times articles or journals, and aids in my research!
Check out my Diigo URL!
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"Evernote is a software application that allows users to capture information of various types, including text notes, mobile phone snapshots, printed and handwritten text within images, web clips, and digital ink. All data added to Evernote are run through a series of recognizers that make any text within the various note formats searchable. The application uses a continuous "roll of paper" metaphor for its user interface. Additionally, users may create folders, categories and notebooks."
Evernote is really powerful I must say because I can store almost anything I want. I can even organized what I found on the internet on different folders and likes. I mean, you don't even need to download and save them on your hard disk or computer! Save a lot of space, don't you think? I can even share with other people what I've researched by making my notebook public, save me time and money to print them out and distribute! haha.
Check out my notebook!
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I must say these online collaborative tools are really quite good. Help us to store information more easily and better still, share with others conveniently on the groups we've create on the sites. Also, I realised we seemed more helpful when it comes to cyber presence, as in we critically asked and answered questions which I think helps a lot in narrowing our focus and achieving efficacy! But of course, there are bad times like lag in communication and cooperation due to asynchronism of logging on to the website, it can be quite frustrating at times! Also, the large mass of information..sometimes cause indigestion of information, kinda hard to filter them altogether! Haha. But I'd say it's really a good experience! (:
