Collaborative Environments

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Collaborative environments has become a part of the Internet as we know it today. The purpose of this page is to review some of the ways in which educational institutions are using collaborative environments to enhance their public-facing web sites (in many cases collaboration has been incorporated into online classroom environments already). The idea of collaborative environments has been suggested for our UVU site regard to a "classified ads" area as well as a "student to student" area in both our design and development sessions but also in the student focus group.

Wikis at other schools

http://universitywikinodewiki.wikia.com/wiki/University-wikis

A full list of other schools using Wiki technology. This includes places like Columbia University, University of Florida, Johns Hopkins University, Duke University, UC Davis, etc. Some examples:

• http://www.duiki.com/wiki/Main_Page
  Duke University
• http://www.wikicu.com/Main_Page
  Columbia University
  • http://www.openwiki.com/ow.asp?Columbia+University+Wiki
    Columbia University (2001 startup)
• http://wiki.jhu.edu/Main_Page
  Johns Hopkins University

Additional wikis not on above URL:

• https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/dashboard.action
  Brown University Dashboard
• http://wiki.ucalgary.ca/page/Main_Page
  University of Calgary
• http://www.library.ohiou.edu/subjects/bizwiki/index.php/Main_Page
  Ohio University Library Business Wiki
• http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
  University of Manitoba Learning Technologies Centre
• http://uga.collegewikis.com/index.php?title=Main_Page
  University of Georgia
• https://wiki.brandeis.edu/twiki/bin/view/
  Brandeis University
• http://www.ugrad.physics.mcgill.ca/wiki/index.php/McGill_University_Physics_Department_Technical_Services_Wiki:Community_Portal McGill University Physics Deaprtment Technical Services Wiki Community Portal

Other large scale educational Wikis

• http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/wiki/TSR_Wiki
  The Student Room - UK's largest student community
• http://wikiedu.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
  Wiki for all colleges and universities worldwide
  

Classified Ads or Message Boards at other schools

Where anyone can post (after logging in)

• http://www.suu.edu/suusa/boards/
  Southern Utah University t-bay online classifieds
• http://www.wou.edu/student/wuc/ads.php
  Western Oregon Universiy
• http://www.utk.edu/classifieds/
  University of Tennessee Knoxville
• http://classifieds.pacificu.edu/cgi-bin/classifieds.cgi
  Pacific Univeristy Oregon
• http://www.ur.umich.edu/0102/Oct07_02/24.shtml
  University of Michigan (article regarding online classified site which one must log in to see)
• http://www.oberlin.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/classifi/classifieds/class_ad.cgi
  Oberlin College
• http://einside.kent.edu/?type=wm&id=2&module=1&53L3c73d=2
  Kent State University - eInside
• http://www.pgsp.edu/student_services_resources_forum.php
  Pacific Graduate School of Psychology - Student Discussion Forum

Online but manually maintained

• http://www.yale.edu/opa/yb&c/
  Yale Bulletin and Calendar
• http://www.apartments.utah.edu/classifiedads/
  University of Utah University Student Apartments Classified Ads

As part of newspaper or a news service supplied by campus (you email they post):

• http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/classifieds/
  Stanford News Service
• http://www.ferris.edu/torch/classifieds.html
  Ferris State Torch Classifieds
• http://www.thecrimson.com/classifieds.aspx
  Harvard University Crimson Online Classifieds
• http://thedaily.washington.edu/classified
  University of Washington The Daily Classifieds
• http://www.pawprint.cornell.edu/Classifieds.html
  Cornell University Pawprint Classified ads

Blogs at other schools

• http://blog.stanford.edu/
  Stanford Blog Directory (comments permitted)
• http://thedaily.washington.edu/blog
  The Daily Dawg Blog at University of Washington (comments permitted)
• http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov06/student.blogs.dea.html
  Cornell Student Blogs (article lists the blogs)
  • See also http://www.cornell.edu/studentlife/blogs.cfm (comments permitted)
• http://oregonstate.edu/admissions/blog/
  Oregon State University Futrue Students Admissions blog (comments permitted)
• http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/10/04_blogs.shtml
  Free speech, online: The best of the Berkeley Blogs (2004 article)
• http://blog.buffalostate.edu/
  Buffalo State
• http://www.norwich.edu/admissions/studentblogs.html
  Norwich University (comments permitted)
• http://www.clarkson.edu/clarkson_experience/blogs/
  Clarkson University The Clarkson Experience (no comments)
• http://www.westminstercollege.edu/blogs/
  Westminster College (comments permitted)
• http://studentblog.olin.edu/
  Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering - The Olinsider (comments permitted)
• http://www.smcvt.edu/blogs/default.asp
  Saint Michaels College (comments permitted)
• http://matrix.scranton.edu/blogs/
  Univeristy of Scranton - In their own words (no comments)

A combination of collaborative resources

• http://apply.jhu.edu/hi/
  Johns Hopkins University - Hopkins Interactive (blogs, profiles, message boards, etc)
• http://hub.ou.edu/index.php
  The Hub at University of Oklahoma (surveys, message boards, classifieds, blogs, etc)

At our school

UVSC has a test run of a Wiki available at http://wiki.uvsc.edu/