(Updates at the end of the post) I’m trying to put together some criteria for the summative evaluation of wikis as a learning technology. Perhaps you can take a look at what I have just brainstormed and provide some suggestions.
Wiki Evaluation Methods
January 23rd, 2006 · 2 Comments
Tags: online learning
The Unfixedness of Knowledge: Discourse, Genre, and Mode in Wikipedia
June 7th, 2005 · No Comments
Wikipedia (http://wikipedia.org/) is the world’s largest online free-content encyclopedia. This means that unlike the content of traditional encyclopedias, such as the Encyclopedia Britannica, the content of Wikipedia is free. But perhaps a more important distinction is that Wikipedia can be edited by anyone, at any time. This may sound counterproductive, as the purpose of an […]
Tags: collaboration and technology
Social literacies: Some observations about writing and wikis
March 4th, 2005 · 5 Comments
In Literacy in the New Media Age, Gunther Kress (2003) argues that the image is displacing writing as the main resource for communication in Western societies. This does not mean, obviously, that writing is disappearing. But as Kress would put it, the world told is increasingly being replaced by the world shown—with all the social […]