I have recently been toying with the idea of having (undergraduate) students post reading summaries to a wiki, and the recent discussion on AcaWiki on this list leads me to post it here, though I can appreciate the argument that it is off topic.
So the idea is that students would do their normal reading responses, and then as part of a project work together with students who happened to do responses on the same paper to create an appropriate summary somewhere.
Before getting to particulars, is there some other venue where this discussion would be more appropriate?
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 5:40 AM, Joseph Reagle joseph.2011@reagle.orgwrote:
Before getting to particulars, is there some other venue where this discussion would be more appropriate?
This seems like a good place to me. :) The particulars would be interesting to see if you're going with WMF project like Wikiversity or another wiki. :)
On 04/25/2011 07:40 PM, Joseph Reagle wrote:
I have recently been toying with the idea of having (undergraduate) students post reading summaries to a wiki, and the recent discussion on AcaWiki on this list leads me to post it here, though I can appreciate the argument that it is off topic.
So the idea is that students would do their normal reading responses, and then as part of a project work together with students who happened to do responses on the same paper to create an appropriate summary somewhere.
Are you aware of the project Wikiversity? It's just the kind of wiki you seem to be looking for. Plus, you don't have to install and maintain a wiki on your own.
Regards, Tobias
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 2:25 PM, church.of.emacs.ml church.of.emacs.ml@googlemail.com wrote:
On 04/25/2011 07:40 PM, Joseph Reagle wrote:
I have recently been toying with the idea of having (undergraduate) students post reading summaries to a wiki, and the recent discussion on AcaWiki on this list leads me to post it here, though I can appreciate the argument that it is off topic.
So the idea is that students would do their normal reading responses, and then as part of a project work together with students who happened to do responses on the same paper to create an appropriate summary somewhere.
Are you aware of the project Wikiversity? It's just the kind of wiki you seem to be looking for. Plus, you don't have to install and maintain a wiki on your own.
Regards, Tobias
The mission statement of Acawiki states: "AcaWiki enables graduate students and researchers to share summaries of academic papers online"
Now, Joseph, would the students be summarizing higher level academic papers or high-school level material?
If its not summarizing academic papers, then its clear that these contributions are not for AcaWiki.
Cheers
Jon
On Monday, April 25, 2011, jon@rejon.org wrote:
The mission statement of Acawiki states: "AcaWiki enables graduate students and researchers to share summaries of academic papers online"
Now, Joseph, would the students be summarizing higher level academic papers or high-school level material?
This would be undergrads reviewing articles germane to new media. However, these articles would not necessarily be peer-reviewed research. For example, Stacy Schiff's "Know It All", or Jaron Lanier's "Digital Maoism" could be sources.
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Joseph Reagle joseph.2011@reagle.org wrote:
On Monday, April 25, 2011, jon@rejon.org wrote:
The mission statement of Acawiki states: "AcaWiki enables graduate students and researchers to share summaries of academic papers online"
Now, Joseph, would the students be summarizing higher level academic papers or high-school level material?
This would be undergrads reviewing articles germane to new media. However, these articles would not necessarily be peer-reviewed research. For example, Stacy Schiff's "Know It All", or Jaron Lanier's "Digital Maoism" could be sources.
Great! Joseph, it would be excellent to have you contribute to AcaWiki. Please do join the acawiki list and/or you can also email me offlist about this. It would be great to get more students to help out put up articles, file bugs, and such.
Lets move this over to the acawiki list next....you can subscribe here: http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/acawiki-general
Cheers!
Jon
On Monday, April 25, 2011, church.of.emacs.ml wrote:
Are you aware of the project Wikiversity? It's just the kind of wiki you seem to be looking for. Plus, you don't have to install and maintain a wiki on your own.
Wikiversity always struck me as topical. I am speaking of reviews of various readings (which would fit into the topic of a particular syllabus). Consequently, AcaWiki seems appropriate, but I don't know if undergraduate contributions would be welcome there. Does Wikiversity have projects for a review of literature?
Joseph Reagle wrote:
Before getting to particulars, is there some other venue where this discussion would be more appropriate?
The new https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education perhaps?
wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org