Blogs as Collaborative Writing Tools Blogs are widely embraced as a tool that has revolutionized publishing on the web. It’s easy and it’s fun to keep a blog, two elements that are always attractive. I like blogs, but what I’m going to write about in this essay is a way in which I think blogs don’t work; or, at least, a way in which blogs didn’t work in my teaching in the way I tried to allow it to happen. Just to telegraph my points clearly: First, and I only want to touch on this point briefly
sent from God, but when they are writing tickets, or taking a friend to jail, the view changes from a savior to a presence that is unwanted and often hated. An effort to improve the public view of law enforcement is being attempted by many departments. Using different styles of policing techniques, mainly community based policing, has proved to be the best way to improve the image of law enforcement. Community based policing can best be defined as, 'a collaborative effort between the police and the
job requirements: filling out burdensome reports, studying cleaning directions, or time cards" (p. 41). However, the changes toward more participatory management "created some interesting new needs" (ibid.), including more sophisticated reading and writing skills, and skills to resolve conflicts resulting from participatory, team
articulate Deleuze and Guattari's philosophical concepts with practical studies on culture, analyzing films, cyberspace, and Cajun dance. Although he says that the goal of the book is to provide "an initial orientation" to Deleuze and Guattari's collaborative works, it is not a simple job at all for those innocent of Deleuzean concepts to follow the flow of his thought (ix). He provides short explications of the concepts and quotations from Deleuze and Guattari's books before his application, but only
Art is the intentional use of some medium to communicate emotions or ideas between minds. Some combination of the five senses is used to conduct information, so art may take the form of music, painting, sculpture, dance, and others. Art may be collaborative, as with the presentation of a symphony, which may involve a composer, a conductor, players, and a lighting crew all working to create the art of the presentation. Also, art occurs in at least one level of abstraction removed from reality, a representation
application developed using Web tools that runs in an internal network” - Intranetjournal.com - Initially the intranet was used fundamentally for sharing information such as policies, procedures and forms. However, the next intranet generation creates a collaborative medium that provides users quick, comprehensive access to everything their jobs require – files, programs, and people, both inside and outside the organization – while capturing and managing each person’s work so that others in turn can find and
Developing Collaborative Partnerships Collaboration has become the byword of the 1990s as a strategy for systemic change in human services, education, government, and community agencies. Increasingly, public and private funders are rewarding or requiring collaborative efforts. The advent of block grants is creating an urgent need for integrated, locally controlled services. Shrinking resources are causing many organizations to consider the potential benefits of working together. States are looking
soul at the time he or she gives up the body is considered one of the most auspicious and blessed of opportunities. If we see death as the opposite of life, then life is good and death is bad. But if we see life and death not as hostile but as collaborative parts of a greater whole called samsara (the cosmic evolutionary cycle of birth-death-rebirth), then life is good and death is also good. Both are part of the Cosmic-What-Is. That being so, the pious Hindu approaches death as a mediation and a
(2001), was an attempt to address specific competencies that were related to the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in an educational setting (pg. 1). Desjardins’ work with the HCHI has been further applied in the prototyping of collaborative online learning environments and as such the model may prove useful when analyzing current web-based applications for usability, reliability, and relevance. This is done by taking the application in question and observing which features fall in
and education are a popular topic of discussion all over the world. Two major views on delivery modes of educational content exist: some focus on asynchronous delivery for the accessibility of information anytime and anywhere through the use of collaborative tools while whereas others focus on the real-time interaction with the instructor, students, and content during class through synchronous delivery. This comparative analysis will look at Elluminate, a synchronous application, and compare it to
Envision: Persuasive Writing in a Visual World Envision: Persuasive Writing in a Visual World, is most certainly a book that more than lives up to its title. Envision is basically a book that covers both persuasive writing strategies, as well as the use of visual rhetoric. Other topics covered by the Envision book include developing research questions and ideas, finding research sources, working in collaborative groups, and other writing topics. It is a how to manual... how to become a more
What does it take to create an environment that encourages collaboration? How can your organization find the collaborative success that organizations like Apple, General Electric, or Southwest have come to know as generally accepted practices? The success of the aforementioned organizations in terms of collaboration stems from several different components. The first of which is the very essence of their respective cultures. Take Pepsi as a case study. Pepsi has recently launched a new series
brings people several advantages. In a collaborative process, individuals from various backgrounds come up and share different perspectives, which may cause arguments. However, conflict is considered one of the main elements of collaboration. Since there are a variety of ideas contributed, the last decision will be the most effective that the parties have all together agreed with. Also, when people are working on a project in a team, due to the collaborative effort, it may be completed on or even
Communication is derived from the Latin word known as communis which carried the meaning “to share”, which mean sharing of concepts, ideas, feelings, and emotions. Communication is a two-way process where it requires an exchange of and progression of ideas towards a goal. It is essential to identify the basic elements of communication in order for this process to materialize. The five basic elements of communication are sender, receiver, message, medium and feedback (Kaul, A., 2006). The process
Isuzu Australia Limited has been marketing Isuzu trucks for about a quarter of a century. The corporation promised to deliver premium product from the Australian market and have been successful thus far. The company vision, according to (Isuzu Australia Limited, 2010), “To be Australia’s No.1 Truck company with a dedication to excellence environmental practices and an unrivalled focus on Customer Care” (para. 3). When the company first started, all information was distributed manually and it was
forces spearheading globalization are the loosening of markets and the effect of information communication technologies (ICTs) on goods, processes and market operations (Bates & Smith, 2010). To be exact, internet-oriented supply channels and collaborative working environments (CWEs) for societies and teams play a vital role in enabling businesses to respond efficiently to the difficulties and opportunities intrinsic in globalization. Progressively more, the Web 2.0 technologies are being utilized
online collaboration from numerous sources. First, the scale of such interactions may range from two people to thousands, with different theoretical tools needed to analyze interaction occurring at different levels. 4.2.2 Qualities of online collaborative Collaboration is occasionally distinguished from helpful learning in that collaboration is typically accomplished through the separation of labor, with each person responsible for some helping of the problem resolving, on the other hand, includes
Virtual teams are administrated essentially the by same fundamental values as traditional teams. Yet, there is one systematic difference. This difference is the way the team members communicate. As a substitute of using the full range and dynamics of in-office face-to-face exchange, they now rely on a repertoire of special communication networks facilitated by modern technologies, such as e-mails, faxes, phone calls, teleconferences, and virtual meetings as a result of the team being geographically
Benefits of Office Automation and Group Collaboration Software As we know group collaboration is important for the success of business. Group collaboration will help a company to increase the contribution of members, help each other leading a business to be more productive. The previous researches have proved that group is more effective and brings more effective result than what single person can achieve. I am an employee of recently opened Modern Shoes Company which has manufacturing plant in
simple matters as terminology (Is it collaborative writing or collaborative learning? Is it peer response, review, or editing?), let alone on actual application and practice. As Kenneth Bruffee states in “Collaborative Learning and the ‘Conversation of Mankind,’” an essay many supporters and detractors of collaborative writing hearken back to time and time again, his essay “offers no recipes” because there are no recipes for effectively adding collaborative writing to an English classroom (394). There