TitanPad
On one of the sites I found through Diigo, I came across TitanPad, which is a collaborative writing sharing program. Students can peer review with each other online in real time, one document at a time. In fact, it's easier than Google Docs in some ways because all you have to do is go to http://www.titanpad.com/, click "Create Public Pad," and then the system immediately assigns the entering writer a URL to work at. I could see using this in English 0090 or 1021 online classes; perhaps what I would do, though, is assign the URLs in advance to groups of students, rather than have them self-select their own URLs. With Dawn, I tried to e-mail her the chat room link we were assigned, but it didn't work that well. But when I sent it to her via Facebook, it was fine. So what's nice is that we could collaborate on a document (with different colors showing different individual contributions) and also chat about that document simultaneously.
Wordle
I also wanted to write down an exercise that I learned about Wordle (again, inspired through a Diigo site!). As an means of introducing themselves to the class, I could have 0090 students create a Wordle--just have them write words that describe themselves and who they are. If certain words mean a lot to them, they can mention those words twice or more. Even for non-online classes, maybe they'd be willing to use them to introduce themselves to the class.
Cool stuff!
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