This document discusses a class about emerging technologies and distributed work. The class will focus on team collaboration, working with remote collaborators, and writing in digital environments. Students will learn how to work remotely and effectively in teams using social media, text, chat and other tools. They will collaboratively build a wiki website to showcase local businesses and community resources with the goal of enhancing local pride and participation. The 65 students are split between 2 classes that will decide the focus of the project and collaboratively write public, professional and multimodal texts.