Comments on: Wiki Panel: Editing Each Other http://facultyacademy.org/blog/2006/05/17/wiki-panel-editing-each-other/ Blogging the Conference Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:28:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: Lee Carleton http://facultyacademy.org/blog/2006/05/17/wiki-panel-editing-each-other/#comment-40 Thu, 25 May 2006 19:14:50 +0000 http://facultyacademy.org/blog/2006/05/17/wiki-panel-editing-each-other/#comment-40 http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/miranda/index.htm http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/miranda/index.htm

]]> by: Lee Carleton http://facultyacademy.org/blog/2006/05/17/wiki-panel-editing-each-other/#comment-39 Thu, 25 May 2006 19:14:02 +0000 http://facultyacademy.org/blog/2006/05/17/wiki-panel-editing-each-other/#comment-39 This is the link to the latest version of my "Miranda" hypertext of Huxley's Brave New World. If you click on 'writing space' and then 'submissions' you can see two student papers - one produced by a senior who had just graduated and the second by a group in one of my comp classes. This is the link to the latest version of my “Miranda” hypertext of Huxley’s Brave New World.
If you click on ‘writing space’ and then ’submissions’ you can see two student papers - one produced by a senior who had just graduated and the second by a group in one of my comp classes.

]]> by: Lee Carleton http://facultyacademy.org/blog/2006/05/17/wiki-panel-editing-each-other/#comment-29 Wed, 17 May 2006 20:45:01 +0000 http://facultyacademy.org/blog/2006/05/17/wiki-panel-editing-each-other/#comment-29 Though my "Miranda" hypertext may not be a *full* wiki in that it's not open to the general public and I'm the gatekeeper, I do attach student work to the hypertext. The project I've been assigning is a group research paper that uses the hypertext as a starting point for exploration & development of a narrowly focused thesis. While a few students dislike the project, most like it and often several are surprised at how much they enjoyed it and felt it challenged them. In the past I had assigned the traditional, individual research paper, I am convinced that these collaborative papers challenge and take students to a higher level of learning. Obviously stucents have to deploy their group skills like scheduling, task assignment and accountability, they also have to help invent and develop the thesis, research their own contribution and revise it according to the editor chosen by the group. Some students expressed difficulty in giving up some of their writing, but most saw the value of editing and group collaboration. This collaboration naturally develops student social skills for those 'human hurdles' and this is important. I'm of the opinion that the obsessive cell-phone use among students has contributed to the erosion of their social skills - another good reason to foreground our discussion of how we use these tools and the impact they have on us. Though my “Miranda” hypertext may not be a *full* wiki in that it’s not open to the general public and I’m the gatekeeper, I do attach student work to the hypertext. The project I’ve been assigning is a group research paper that uses the hypertext as a starting point for exploration & development of a narrowly focused thesis. While a few students dislike the project, most like it and often several are surprised at how much they enjoyed it and felt it challenged them.

In the past I had assigned the traditional, individual research paper, I am convinced that these collaborative papers challenge and take students to a higher level of learning. Obviously stucents have to deploy their group skills like scheduling, task assignment and accountability, they also have to help invent and develop the thesis, research their own contribution and revise it according to the editor chosen by the group.

Some students expressed difficulty in giving up some of their writing, but most saw the value of editing and group collaboration. This collaboration naturally develops student social skills for those ‘human hurdles’ and this is important.
I’m of the opinion that the obsessive cell-phone use among students has contributed to the erosion of their social skills - another good reason to foreground our discussion of how we use these tools and the impact they have on us.

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