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cnicolas |
Choosing a medium
Oct 8 2008, 1:16 PM EDT
When planning your class, how do you decide which tools/media students will use? How much of your decision-making is driven by specific learning objectives? your preference? Does the wiki add something to student learning that face to face lacked?
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tolsen |
1. RE: Choosing a medium
Oct 8 2008, 2:39 PM EDT
That's an excellent question and I believe the answer is yes. Well, with a wiki, I wanted to use the collaborative function (for a service-learning class, that seems applicable to the stated objectives of building community). The policy paper can be written for online posting or traditional print but we looked at online examples and discussed formatting as applies to the main idea, audience needs and organization. The connection to learning objectives are not direct--they are writing a "public" paper but not necessarily making it public immediately. I was posting some papers. The objective should be clarified there. If the goal is sharing ideas, there should be a clear mechanism for online distribution and feedback. In my course, that objective is implied while the stated objective is for students to write a researched paper. The same statement can be made about the powerpoints on 19thc culture. It makes sense to talk about primary research as something that is beneficial to share, but we have no way of knowing who is looking at the documents, or if anyone is. Even a "counter" on the website would give some indication. Do you think that public writing needs to have a public reaction to be valid? Do we have to find an active audience as opposed to a silent and hypothetical one? Do you find this valuable? |
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cnicolas |
2. RE: Choosing a medium
Oct 8 2008, 3:43 PM EDT
Wow, what a great question! We spend so much time discussing audience with students, and often, when we make a case for incorporating "public writing" assignments in our courses, we again talk about giving students opportunities to write for "real audiences." Yet, if we consider the audience as "silent and hypothetical one", are these public assignments really different from the traditional ones? Maybe it is about perception of audience...
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tolsen |
3. RE: Choosing a medium
Oct 8 2008, 4:45 PM EDT
Did I send you this link for a discussion on Classroom 2.0? I used it but wanted to draw your attention to it. Hope the link is ok. You will love reading through it.http://www.classroom20.com/forum/topic/show?id=649749%3ATopic%3A154764&page=5&commentId=649749%3AComment%3A185295&x=1#649749Comment185295 Do you find this valuable? |
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HowardF64 |
4. RE: Choosing a medium
Oct 17 2008, 3:04 PM EDT
Many of the LMS systems we use on campus (LAMP/Sakai, Angel, etc) allow us to create a Wiki in site. That would change the scope of "public" to just the other students in the class, but it's readily available by the students, and it might alleviate some fears about writing to a "public" forum.
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