June-July 06 issue of Innovate

The June-July '06 issue of Innovate is out. Articles I found to be of particular interest:

• From Digital Divide to Digital Dividend: What Will It Take? Outlines the important steps that such entities can take and have already taken to maximize the digital dividends that ICTs provide for populations across the digital divide
• Teaching Social Software with Social Software. Ulises Mejias writes about his experience in teaching a course on social software with social software
• Uses and Potentials of Wikis in the Classroom. After addressing some controversies over the use of wikis as scholarly and educational resources, the authors advocate the use of wikis as a teaching and learning tool.
• Synchronous Discussion in Online Courses: A Pedagogical Strategy for Taming the Chat Beast. Describes a protocol for virtual classroom etiquette—or "chatiquette"—based on research on classroom discourse and conversational turn-taking.