iterativelearning

Sometimes faculty or student groups just need to do super-quick, on-the-spot polls (e.g., should we write about this topic or that?). Yet many conventional LMS systems require faculty or users to click through a cumbersome series of options and approvals in order to do this, and for students, it’s equally difficult if not impossible. Reading Lifehacker’s short post on Google’s Moderator tool got me thinking a little bit about this, and by way of association, how newcomer Wiggio, the collaboration tool geared primarily towards students, makes it quite easy.

Wiggio looks like a promising addition to the collaboration software landscape. It uses the web so there’s no worries about platform compatibility and includes core team tools like a calendar, file sharing, meeting forums, message areas, and link libraries.

One way in which it really distinguishes itself, though, is how it capitalizes on a common tool that nearly everyone has — a cellphone. You can set-up cellphone conference calls, record voice notes or messages, and text team members; it’s all integrated with Wiggio.

When educators who teach online look for ways to facilitate collaboration among student groups, it seems that integrating cellphone capabilities is a very big and smart step forward. Also interesting is that Wiggio has been created by students at Cornell. So, unlike other DE tools that generally come from outside campus environments, here we see one springing directly out of a campus context. I wonder if the CHE blog will write anything on this tool?