Hi I'm teaching Media Effects and using the Blackboard wiki tool for student group projects. The Blackboard wiki does not work like Wikipedia, but utilizes similar ideas of "open space" and "group collaboration." The Blackboard wiki is not public, and only enrolled students have access to it. However, this tool allows students to use this work space to create and construct their own research content with regard to a particular media effects topic (e.g., effects of violence and sex, agenda setting, cultivation, U&G, effects of new media, etc.). Apparently my students don't actively use wiki, blogs, podcasts before taking this class, we spent a lot of time to learn the basic functions, give each other critiques, and gradually develop the content to have a better focus and organization. However, most of them enjoy the "learning by doing" practice and find the wiki project useful and interesting. jennie hwang assistant professor, communication cal poly, san luis obispo
On Nov 11, 2008, at 11:02 AM, air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org wrote:
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:44:14 -0800 From: David M Silver <dmsilver@usfca.edu> Subject: [Air-L] assigning students their college/university wikipedia page To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Message-ID: <fe8cd435d694.d694fe8cd435@usfca.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
aoir people,
has anyone had any experience with assigning students the task of altering, improving, and tweaking their university page on wikipedia? in other words, has anyone assigned their college/university wikipedia page as a site of construction for a class? if so, i'm curious to hear any anecdotes, experiences, best-practices, relevant readings, and anything else you wish to share.
david silver http://silverinsf.blogspot.com