I have in mind a module to explore the writing process. The module would cover the following topics (among possible others): brainstorming (as a collaborative activity), information gathering (across the internet), collaborative writing, process description, peer review.
Proposed tools:
Brainstorming: mindmaps;
information gathering: google notebook;
process description: gliffy;
peer review: mahara (blogs or …).
collaborative writing: google docs; wikis;
My guess is that it’s probably best to tie everything together using mahara (though I haven’t used mahara yet, so I’m not so sure). And then I would integrate mahara with moodle, to be able to take advantage of moodle’s resources and LMS features.
That’s it, in short.
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This is a good example that we in academic settings must probably do anyway from time to time. Do you have in mind any certain tool for mind mapping? I also haven’t used Mahara, but it seems interesting enough to discover it further..
I was thinking about bubbl.com, but mindmeister is also okay. I just had Mahara installed here at school, and I’ve begun playing with it, so we’ll see …