[Air-L] assigning wikipedia

[Jennie Hwang]

Hi

I'm teaching Media Effects and using the Blackboard wiki tool for  
student group projects. The Blackboard wiki does not work like  
Wikipedia, but utilizes similar ideas of "open space" and "group  
collaboration." The Blackboard wiki is not public, and only enrolled  
students have access to it. However, this tool allows students to use  
this work space to create and construct their own research content  
with regard to a particular media effects topic (e.g., effects of  
violence and sex, agenda setting, cultivation, U&G, effects of new  
media, etc.). Apparently my students don't actively use wiki, blogs,  
podcasts before taking this class, we spent a lot of time to learn  
the basic functions, give each other critiques,  and gradually  
develop the content to have a better focus and organization.

However, most of them enjoy the "learning by doing" practice and find  
the wiki project useful and interesting.

jennie hwang

assistant professor, communication
cal poly, san luis obispo

> On Nov 11, 2008, at 11:02 AM, air-l-request at listserv.aoir.org wrote:
>
>> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:44:14 -0800
>> From: David M Silver <dmsilver at usfca.edu>
>> Subject: [Air-L] assigning students their college/university  
>> wikipedia
>>        page
>> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
>> Message-ID: <fe8cd435d694.d694fe8cd435 at usfca.edu>
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>>
>> aoir people,
>>
>> has anyone had any experience with assigning students the task of
>> altering, improving, and tweaking their university page on  
>> wikipedia? in
>> other words, has anyone assigned their college/university  
>> wikipedia page
>> as a site of construction for a class? if so, i'm curious to hear any
>> anecdotes, experiences, best-practices, relevant readings, and  
>> anything
>> else you wish to share.
>>
>> david silver
>> http://silverinsf.blogspot.com
>