Social writing - wikis

Social writing: wikis WikiProjects

• Wikipedia http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
• WikiNews http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikinews
• WikiSpaces http://www.wikispaces.com/
• SocialText http://www.socialtext.com/
• TiddlyWiki http://www.tiddlywiki.com/
• PBwiki http://pbwiki.com/

(IBM History Flow research, 2003)
Wikis not called wikis

• JotSpot http://www.jotlive.com/
• Writely (Google) http://www.writely.com/

Education

• Bowdoin's Romantic Audience http://ssad.bowdoin.edu:8668/
• Romantic Circles article http://www.rc.umd.edu/pedagogies/commons/innovations/rap/intro.htm

• http://www.wikikids.nl/
• Evaluating wiki implementations http://www.profetic.org:16080/dossiers/article.php3?id_article=973
• Wiki evaluation methods: http://ideant.typepad.com/ideant/2006/01/wiki_evaluation.html
• One organization report: http://b2e.nitle.org/index.php?title=best_practices_for_wikis_within_an_organ&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

Best practice selection

• Include peer editing in grading (Brown) - example peer grading form
• Students use wikis to generate rules of the road
• Persistent "home" link
• Question of time: how long to allow an assignment to accumulate?
• Wikis for knowledge production, blogs for conversation

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