Comments on: Wikis in Education http://theprofessornotes.com/archives/168?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wikis-in-education Where my thoughts and your eyes (and now ears!) collide Mon, 14 May 2012 20:59:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Brad http://theprofessornotes.com/archives/168/comment-page-1#comment-395 Brad Fri, 23 Feb 2007 22:23:03 +0000 http://sctoday.net/ProfessorNotes/wordpress/archives/168#comment-395 Wikis don't just allow for aggregation of information, but synthesis of it. I am using the term wiki more broadly here to simply mean a tool to enable collaborative editing of a document or groups of documents. A wiki could be a feature of a course management system along with the usual discussion boards and quiz tools. I am thinking of the camping trip example. If a threaded discussion was used to try to determine what was needed for the trip and who was bringing what, the information would be locked in dozens (or more) messages. If you wanted to know what you should bring, you would have to read all the messages. You would have to compare all the notes stating what is needed to all the notes stating what others are bringing. Wikis don’t just allow for aggregation of information, but synthesis of it.

I am using the term wiki more broadly here to simply mean a tool to enable collaborative editing of a document or groups of documents. A wiki could be a feature of a course management system along with the usual discussion boards and quiz tools.

I am thinking of the camping trip example. If a threaded discussion was used to try to determine what was needed for the trip and who was bringing what, the information would be locked in dozens (or more) messages. If you wanted to know what you should bring, you would have to read all the messages. You would have to compare all the notes stating what is needed to all the notes stating what others are bringing.

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