Wiki Wake-Up Call and Use Cases

I really like wikis and I have used them for many of the applications suggested in the use cases in the post. However, I have also found that it can be difficult to get co-workers and students to use a wiki and write collaboratively. Separating out all the variations of use should help communicate the advantages better. By staying within a specific use environment and only promoting the features and benefits applicable to that particular use, others may be less fearful and more willing to give it a try.

Wiki Wake-Up Call and Use Cases

Good discussion of how wikis are used (because you can't simply assume they'll work for everything). The author lists a range of user-types, from single-user wikis to public megawikis like Wikipedia. He also offers a set of use cases - some good suggestions to which experienced wikinauts could no doubt contribute.
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One of the comments

I rarely use Wikipedia anymore as an example of a wiki because I find that for people who don’t know what a wiki is, there’s often a negative connotation to the idea that usually has little applicability to the people with whom I’m talking. I’ve also been focusing more on how to use wikis to address specific business issues/problems and your use cases above give me some more ideas on how to do that.

YouTube 101 - Yes, It's a Real Class

This just shows the innovation in higher ed. There is no question that YouTube has had a significant influence on our culture, so it seems appropriate to include it in the journalism curriculum.

YouTube 101 - Yes, It's a Real Class

Nice bit of journalism from Andy Carvin as he examines the depths of a university course on YouTube. "The idea behind it is to engage a group of students around the culture of YouTube, while requiring them to use YouTube as one of the primary mechanisms for communicating during the semester." I don't think that the idea is as flaky as some of the commentators - communicating using only video, and especially within the constraints of YouTube video - is hard. And studying the YouTube culture is worthwhile on its own merit.
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Everybody does it

from OLDaily - commenting on the referenced article

Dishonesty was something to be
ashamed of. Today, people look at their heroes, their
leaders, their models - and they see nothing but cheating.
"It's a silent conspiracy creating the disease of low
expectations: 'Well, we can't really expect people to be
honest anymore.'" At the bottom of the article there's a
list, "Top 5 Ways to Curb Cheating." Not on that list is
something like, "have business leaders and politicians and
role models who don't lie, steal and cheat." Bringing
honour back into society begins with ourselves, not
lecturing the kids.

I can and do expect students to be honest. Is that idealistic?

10 + 10 future web trends

I'm always on the lookout for trends that could impact our teaching and learning in the future. Even if these don't all come to pass, it is interesting to have considered the possibilities. Maybe even pretty funny.

• 10 Future Web Trends
• 10 More Future Web Trends

MP3 as part of a class assignment

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How They Do Surprise Us, These People We Call Students

Interesting story about an exercise where students read a poem into MP3 as part of a class assignment - and discover more in the poem than they thought, and more than their teacher expected. No deep lessons here, but it's part of an overall pattern of perception and meaning as being composed of more than just words. Clay Burell, Beyond School, September 26, 2007.

EduservCETIS 20Sep2007

There is a lot of buzz about using Second Life in teaching and learning. However, SL still seems like a cool technology looking for an application. I haven't seen anything that I thought was really compelling but I'm keeping an open mind.

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EduservCETIS 20Sep2007
Various Authors, CETIS
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http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=41839
If you are interested in the use of Second Life in online
learning, you'll want to access the slides and podcasts
from this meeting help a few days ago summarizing the
results of four research projects sponsored by Britain's
Eduserv Foundation. The projects were: Theatre,
Performance, History and Creative Pedagogy: Theatron's
Second Life; Learning in Second Life; Modelling4All:
Intersecting computer modelling, Web 2.0, and Second Life;
and Learning Support in Second Life with Sloodle.