Promoting Community in the Classroom

The focus of my research is precisely community, so the second phase of the study was particularly interesting.
The group consisted of ten students from several different schools: Communications, Marketing, Civil Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Industrial Relations, and also from different semesters, so it was a pretty good mix. Also, there were five guys and five girls. We divided them into two teams of five each based on their scores on the diagnostic test, so we tried to mix stronger and weaker students, too.
Both teams decided to use wikis to deliver their projects. In Team 1, none of the students had used a wiki before, nor knew how to make one. In Team 2, one of the students had had a class in e-commerce the previous semester, so he knew how to make wikis.
In case you don't know, a wiki is a web page that can be easily edited. The most famous is probably Wikipedia, which is an online collaborative encyclopedia. A wiki is easy to use, since it doesn't require a special programming language, and depending on how you set it up, it can be edited by anyone, or anyone you give rights to. It can be very collaborative, and it also keeps a record of who's editing and the changes that are made.
There are several hosts where you can set up free wikis. In Team 2, Alex, the student who knew how to make wikis, did the preliminary work. In Team 1, one of the students was selected to set up the wiki. It was a fast and easy process and soon the students were working on their projects...