Anders, A., 75th Annual Association of Business Communication Convention, Association of Business Communication, Chicago, IL, "My Favorite Assignment Session: Building Better Bullet Points the Open Source Way", (October 2010).

1. Building Better Bullet Points
The OPEN Source Way
A Collaborative Learning Activity

2. Abram Anders
University of Minnesota Duluth
adanders@d.umn.edu
Association for Business Communication
Annual Convention
Fall 2010

3. Collaborative Learning
Facilitate connections and create common
ground between:
• Pedagogical Goals and Opportunities
• Technological Tools and Applications
• Collaborative Processes

4. BBP OSW Features
• Overcomes traditional pedagogical challenge:
1st person author inertia; self-representation
issues; How do I get there from here?
• Employs collaborative writing platforms;
modeling contexts increasingly crucial to
contemporary workplace
• OPEN SOURCE: “Given enough eyes, all bugs
are flat.”

7. Etherpad

8. Typewith.me

9. Twiddla.com

10. Google Docs

11. Additional Activities
• Share topics, ideas, examples for any
assignment or task
• Collaboratively write messages of different
types: positive/neutral, persuasive/sales,
negative news
• Collaboratively write messages with different
formats: full-block business letter, memo, etc.