[Air-L] assigning wikipedia

[Heidelberg, Chris]

Jennie:

I have used a Facebook Group, YouTube, and a blogging service to create
interactivity in my video production class. It has worked well and I
will be presenting my research from the class in a digital book. I would
like to share ideas.

Chris A. Heidelberg, Ph.D.
Loyola College 

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[mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Jennie Hwang
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 4:43 PM
To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
Subject: Re: [Air-L] assigning wikipedia

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>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>>
>> 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
>

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