I am currently using Wikibooks to compile theory and methods in my discipline for my comprehensive exams. To me, my theory class could have been doing this all along. Has anyone used Wikibooks in the classroom to create the textbook? I know Curtis Bonk at IU has done some of this.
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Janet Hawtin lucychili@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:00 PM, Andrea Forte andrea.forte@gmail.com wrote:
Often it's productive for learners to freely explore wrong ideas in detail, to develop their interpretations, etc. These kinds of issues are precisely why I set up a student writing wiki separate from Wikipedia, so that there would be freedom to ask students to write in many different ways without bothering Wikipedians. In particular, I really wanted them to be free to use original research and explore possibilities. That's not to say that they don't eventually often write material that is encyclopedic and appropriate for Wikipedia, but the process is just different.
some wikis have incubators for formative work again the challenge is that it is hard to collaborate if the purpose is not explicit sometimes that is hard if it is experimental
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