I am now experimenting with some technologies that might be useful to many of the faculty here. The technology that I am playing with now is wiki's and collaborative technology. A wiki is website or similar online resource which allows users to add and edit content collectively. Some uses for a wiki are described below with a real example of a wiki I created for those purposes. The great thing is you can use a wiki for just you - or as a collaborative approach AND you can do it at any level.
Wiki for class support for a single class http://cet4429.pbwiki.com/
Wiki to support a large scale research effort and documentation for that effort (including project management) http://ucf-sage.pbwiki.com/
Wiki to present a final research report (this can also be a great way for students to turn in class projects) http://ucf-rainfall.pbwiki.com/
Wiki for classroom materials that can be used by yourself and others http://classroomactivities.pbwiki.com/
Wiki for a true public access and collaboration (in this example Trail Maps) http://trailmaps.pbwiki.com/
These are all wiki's that I have created in my experimentation, I hopefully will be able to over the course of the semester document how well these work and I plan to have a publication for ASEE or other journal by the end of the term.
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