Gerhard Fischer and Hal Eden: "Design, Learning, and Collaboration"–Spring Semester 2004

Assignment 3

Collaboration

due:    Wed, January 29, 2002; 1:00pm on the class website

1) Visit one of the following websites and explore it

• http://www.experts-exchange.com/
• www.mamamedia.com
• http://www.phoaks.com/phoaks2/
• http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~ostwald/DynaSites.html

2) Briefly discuss for your chosen website:

• what did you find interesting about it?
• in which way is it related to "collaboration"?
• how does it compare with the Swiki used for our class?

3) have you ever read a book(s) / article(s) (or books) about
collaboration? if yes:

• choose the most important one
• provide title and one paragraph what you found interesting about it!