Today I discovered the joys of Google's Sidewiki project. It seems like a great idea due to the fact that there have been a number of times that I want to tear a website's layout to pieces (that is, if anyone is actually listening). But beyond that this could easily be used in an education setting. If the students are assigned to work on a project but they are having a hard time meeting they could just post as much of their work online as they can and use google sidewiki to comment on changes that need to be made or things to be tweaked. I am currently working in a group for one of my classes and we've got Google docs down pat, but as for comments, generally we will email them to each other. This Google sidewiki would allow us to make the same comments but to have everything on the same page.

Also, the pages in the google groups is much simpler to use than one would expect. It's just like making a google doc but it allows for different categories and people don't have to be invited. Brilliant. I'm thinking of ways that I can use this in my major now! There has been a lack of communication and order amongst the students and we have been looking for a way to organize. I think that I now have some fairly useful tools.