A short history of tools for communication and collaboration

PowerPoint presentation

Skills: none
Concepts: pre-Internet tools, key contributors (Bush, Licklider, Taylor, Engelbart), stages of invention (vision, prototype, product, ubiquitous product)

Collaborative writing

PowerPoint presentation
Presentation video
Prerequisite topic module
Prerequisite topic module
Prerequisite topic module
Assignment
Assignment
Assignment

Skills: organizing and starting a collaborative writing project
Concepts: compiled versus co-authored documents, structured versus unstructured data, synchronous and asynchronous collaborative writing tools, Doug Engelbart’s contribution