Crowdsourcing Knowledge with Students
Over the last few weeks I have been playing with a very simple brainstorming and voting website called tricider . The great thing about tricider is that it is incredibly quick and simple to use, and yet it enables users to collect information and opinions from all over the web in a very easily digestible and powerful way. It's very easy to create a tricider topic or question and you don't even need to register, just type your topic or question into the field. You can also add a bit more detail and instructions to guide your students. After you have saved the description, you or your students can start adding solutions. Once there are some solutions added it's easy to either vote for them or add arguments for or against, using the + or - symbols. Once you have set up your page you can add your email so that you get notifications when ever anyone adds something new or votes. You can also get a URL to edit the page (in case anyone adds something offensive) and a separate URL...