Links 

Google Docs & Spreadsheets
 http://www.google.com/google-d-s/b1.html

Wiki - Wikipedia
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

also maintains a list of wiki software and hosting
sites

A Million Penguins - a collaborative creative
writing exercise
 http://www.amillionpenguins.com/wiki/index.php/About

Memory Alpha
 http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Portal:Main

Wiki Spaces
 http://www.wikispaces.com/

Zoho Collaborative writing
 http://www.zoho.com

Creating a place where multiple students can work on the same document or project has always been problematic. Sharing a floppy disk or USB memory stick can be limiting and risks potential loss. Now, new Internet based solutions are available.

Google Docs & Spreadsheets allows collaboration editing of work processing documents.

Another option is setting up your own wiki or using one of the many wiki hosting services. A wiki is a website hosting web pages which can be directly edited by anyone with access to it. Backups copies of each page are kept so that one's person's editing doesn't necessarily destroy another's work.

One of the best known wikis is the Wikipedia on-line encyclopedia. Other wikis have been used for everything from creating novels (A Million Penguins) to documenting the Star Trek universe (Memory Alpha).

You can download the software and host your own wiki site (if you have an IT bent), or use one of the many free hosting services. Wikis are an easy way to foster group collaboration and create communities.

Wikis work well for historical inquiry projects. Wiki Spaces suggests these four steps: posing the problem, exploring sources, analysis and reconstruction and debriefing and comparison of accounts.

Zoho maintains an archive of all changes in this collaborative writing aid.