COLLABORATIVE TOOLS FOR EDUCATION IN PLANNING: THE GISCAKE PLATFORM

The web 2.0 revolution is considered more social than technical innovation. With the advent of language www, wikipedia and social networks (Facebook, Twitter, etc..), dissemination of news and information via the web has considerably changed the data sharing. Also in the field of the applied planning, the Internet has created a development of tools for the planners: Web Map Service within the GIS software (WMS, WCS, WFS) and WebGIS (MapServer, GeoServer, GeoNetwork). In this evolving scenario, the academic planning seems to have taken a not active role, suffering the effects of the technological and cultural progress and considering the Internet like a big library. From this, it raises a question: how the planning education use the web? how the planning education can take advantage of the new capabilities of web 2.0?