collaborative+writing+tools+benefits

Here is where you contribute and share the **benefits of using online collaborative writing tools** for administration in a teaching or broader educational context.
 * Online collaborative writing tools Benefits**
 * First, add your name to the list of contributors below.
 * Then, add your contribution. Try to make your contribution fit with the rest of the page, so that the page 'reads' as a seamless whole. You do not need to write your name next to your contribution (I can see who wrote what using the page 'history'). You need to make a different point from the points raised by others.
 * Please note, a wikispaces wiki does not cope with multiple people editing the same page at exactly the same time. So, in the unlikely event that other people are editing when you are, you need save frequently.

// To add to this page, you need to click on the **'edit this page'** tab at the top of this page. //// Then, write your contribution in this space as you would a word processor. //// When you have finished adding your contribution, click 'Save' on the floating Editor bar. //

// This is a co-constructed area, and as such it is possible to edit anything other people have contributed. Please do not delete these instructions or other people's contributions. If you do accidentally erase work, you can revert to a previous save, by clicking on the 'history' tab. Move the cursor below the last line of text to add your contribution. If you want to add a line just insert four minus (-) signs together. ** Now it's your turn! Enjoy! ** //

Please email Rachael Adlington (radlingt@une.edu.au) if all of the available spaces for 'contributors' are full.
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  Online collaboration tools are essential in education for the 21st centry. The benefits for students in learning digital literacies for the modern world. (Rheingold, 2010) states that these literacies are. · Attention · Participation · Collaboration · Network awareness · Critical consumption Attention is an essential skill that we all need in our everyday life. Without these skills, we would not be able to function properly in everything we do. Participation teaches students to add items of value to groups and conversations. Collboration essential for communicating with your networks. This literacy negotiated by the network that describes how we interact. Network awareness There are really at least three kinds of value that networks can provide: the linear value of services that are aimed at individual users, the 'square' value from facilitating transactions, and the exponential value for facilitating group affiliations. What's important is that the dominant value in a typical network tends to shift from one category to another as the scale of the network increases." As Reed explains, content (e.g., published stories and images, consumer goods) is king when a network is dominated by linear connections. As the scale of the network shifts upward, transactions (e.g., e-mail, voice-mail, securities, services) become central. Finally, at the group-forming level, the value lies in joint construction (e.g., newsgroups, virtual communities, gossip, auctions, organizing get-out-the-vote campaigns)(Reed, 1999). Critical consumption is a literacy that teaches students how to detect the rubbish online.