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Virtual Urbanism :: C&W 2007
Wikis in the Classroom

Bridging Place, Writing Space: The Promise and Challenges of Course Wikis

Part I :: Situation of Use, Reflecting on the Urban

  • Portfolios and Reflection--Program Situation
  • Eastern Michigan University--Ypsilanti
  • Case Western Reserve--Cleveland

Part II :: Types of Use, Trade-offs and Issues

  • Portfolio Performance :: less stress on the HTML which there isn’t enough time for them to really take any ownership of the skills, so the design, the execution and most importantly, the reflection, suffer.
  • Note-taking for Concept Discussions
  • Notes, questions, issues from the reading – discussive or interactive
  • Notes on Guest Presentations
  • Group Work in Class --
  • Sharing Drafts and Feedback
  • Learning from Others – Positive and Negative?
  • Re-use of Course Materials
  • Different Kinds of Projects – Grammar Tutorials for Editing Class

Part III :: Web 2.0 and Wikis--It's Not the Node, It's the Link

  • Web 2.0 Apps--Characterizations
  • Obsessions--Geeking Out then Linking
  • Keep Thinking about How

That’s how each of Wikipedia’s 600,000 entries has evolved, from the hands of people like us with the concept that everyone together is smarter than any one alone. In the process, we check facts, provide “soft” security by acting like a community watchdog, and weed out bias and emotion from the posts in an attempt to arrive at a neutral point of view for each article. Each entry is the group’s best effort, not any one person’s. … In that way, Wikipedia is the poster child for the collaborative construction of knowledge that the new, interactive Web facilitates. … Every day, thousands of people who have no connection to one another come together to negotiate and create truth.

Will Richardson. An Educator’s Guide to Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Cool New Tools That Are Transforming the Classroom.
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