Wiggio

Wiggio allows group members to share and edit files, manage a group calendar, poll your group, post links, set up conference calls, chat online and send mass text, voice and email messages. Each group member can define how they want to keep informed of group activity. Wiggio groups are private groups used solely for personal, academic, extracurricular, commercial, political, or charitable purposes.
 * __Wiggio__**

Link to official web-site: www.wiggio.com Link to Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiggio Link to Tech Crunch review: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/02/wiggio-comes-out-of-beta-with-a-yammer-for-college-students/ Link to You Tube video: What is Wiggio?
 * __Resources__:**

• Free • Intuitive use and no real needing a lot of training • Simple to use with everything being in one place • Provides everything you need to work productively in your groups, without bogging down with complexities, and unnecessary features • Provides a You Tube tutorial for a complete overview of what you can do with Wiggio • Ease of use allows even the youngest student to participate • Everything is provided to communicate and collaborate within the group. • Groups are completely private. • There is no search-ability for groups; no one knows that your group exists except those who are in it. • Only the group administrators have the ability to delete and edit individual calendar events. • It permits you to have unlimited storage within your folders and sub-folders within your group’s main folder • You can have up to 10 participants in a Virtual Meeting and up to 50 participants in a conference call. • Group administrators can set exactly what non-administrators can and cannot do within a group • E-mail and/or phone numbers can be hidden from other group members • Administrators can remove people from the group • There is no public directory of Wiggio groups. • Wiggio does not sell nor trade any personal information obtained from the site. • All account information is located on a secured server behind a firewall. • When you invite people to your group, they do not have to register to use Wiggio •Setup is quick. It takes about a minute or less to set up. Once setup is complete, it is available for immediate use. •You can text message and email into your group, and receive group communications to your cell phone, email and Facebook. •It’s an all-in-one tool. All the tools you need to collaborate with a group is included. •Each feature is designed to be straightforward and self-explanatory. No training. No learning curve.
 * __Strengths__:**

• In the future they plan to implement sponsored links and advertisements on the site. • As they become available, upgrades and premium features will be provided for a fee • No one file can exceed 100mb • Collaborative work sites can become disorganized • Responses can be made anonymously • May contain links to other websites.. • No guarantee that User Content you post on the Site will not be viewed by unauthorized persons • Fairly new application. • Not everything works in its recent release • Not as reliable as BaseCamp or ActiveCollab • Lacking in additional features as: milestones, sub to-do lists, due dates to tasks • Needs a new look
 * __Weaknesses__:**

• For students to collaborate on a project in an academic environment • Store one set of documents in a single repository that can be viewed by the teacher • Use the shared calendar to send text message reminders • Access to shared files so all members have the same information • Can ask group questions and receive aggregated responses as they answer • Can monitor group conference calling and chat rooms • Compile to-do lists, resource lists and group brainstorming in one location • Save completed group project for future use and reference • Allows for students to organize academic and personal activities in one place. • Discussion board is great and you can simply post in available field
 * __Opportunities:__**

• Social networking sites can fall prey to cybercriminals looking for their next victims • Use of wikis allows for collaboration on a topic but can raise questions of authorship and knowledge construction • Skilled hackers can inflict viruses which could affect school computer systems
 * __Threats__:**

• Use for classroom projects that require accountability by each student or group • One place to store notes for a group project • Teachers can communicate with parents to coordinate school, classroom or individual events • Students can work on projects from outside the classroom • While teaching a new lesson students can store their notes and have easy access to study guides • Upon conclusion of a lesson use Wiggio for each student to summarize what they have learned • Discussion board through posting • Each class can have their page for communication and information in general
 * __Ideas for the Classroom__:**