technology & the social » education2.0 http://www.ericka.cc Occasional thoughts about research & life as a Ph.D. candidate, by Ericka Menchen-Trevino Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:47:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Upcoming Presentation on using a Wiki in the Classroom http://www.ericka.cc/2006/01/upcoming-presentation-on-using-a-wiki-in-the-classroom/ http://www.ericka.cc/2006/01/upcoming-presentation-on-using-a-wiki-in-the-classroom/#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2006 02:37:14 +0000 Ericka http://blog.erickamenchen.net/2006/01/15/upcoming-presentation-on-using-a-wiki-in-the-classroom/ A fellow grad student, Dave Elfving, and I will be presenting at the Teaching and Learning with Technology conference on March 2nd at Purdue University. The title is “When does a wiki work? A case study in graduate education” and we’ll be discussing our experience over the past year and a half of using a wiki in our department – focussing on the first semester where we used it extensively in one class and hardly at all in another. It’s part of Dave’s thesis and more of a side project for me, but one I’ve been interested in for some time. It’s nice to work on something a bit different than my thesis, keeps the gears turning. We’ll have a few video clips of people talking about the wiki & we’ll post everything online afterward.

I suggested using a wiki on the first day of class (even then I was thinking it would be an interesting case) and it went from there. As time went on several broader questions emerged.

* What is the place of collaborative writing in graduate education & academia?
* Why do people contribute, and in what way do the do so?
* What is the pedagogical value?

Hopefully we’ll have a good discussion.

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