This blog is for a project for my class EDU 651: Collaboration and Learning in a Virtual Environment. I will be posting information on what I've learned about various class topics. This will be linked to my Twitter account and a wiki that I will soon be creating. I will be posting information from articles and possibly other blogs on the Web. Mostly, we will be talking about how collaborative software and programs can be used in the teaching and learning environment. I hope you find the information useful and interesting.
To get us started, here's an article from Learning Solutions Magazine that I found quite interesting and informative about using Facebook as your new LMS:
http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/612/?utm_campaign=lsmag&utm_medium=email&utm_source=elg-insider There are other articles available in the navigation pane. Let me know if this sparks any thoughts!
Happy learning,
Colleen
This week we have been working on connecting to various social networking tools. We have created a Twitter, Blogger (obviously) and PBWiki accounts. We discussed in our forum 3 educational wikis that we would like to create. We also read the book Using Wikis for Online Collaboration, The Power of the Read/Write Web by James A. and Margaret L. West. It's a great resource! It takes you through the creation of a wiki, as well as giving you the types of wikis and their uses. I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in creating a wiki for educational purposes. (Or, any purpose, for that matter.)
ReplyDeleteOur other discussion forum posed the question of possible pitfalls of wikis. From what I've read, the biggest problem with wikis is getting people to contribute and to do so in a fair and equitable manner. The aforementioned book gives valid ways to avoid this pitfall.
When creating my wiki, I got a bit carried away and actually created the entire project. I'm hoping to present the project to my boss for approval.