Discussion
- Annotated bibliography, bib wiki, etc
- Question about how things change from year to year?
- Annotated bib can grow. One q: will it get stale?
- does the course stay the same?
- Is "categorization" a challenge? How is it being used?
- What was "new" here?
- not annotated bibs - those have been around.
- The real-time input of student medical observations was very new - hot linked into data base
- the use of anonymous surveys, feedback
- Pedaggical moves using categorization
- ability to collect contributions on your own wiki page (as a student)
- dynamic, evolving organization
- creating a space of Web sites.
- allowing a community to caref for itself - ethics group and editorial teams in Frances' course
- using the media to reflect the identity of the course and content (Slotta's knowledge media seminar)
- preserving the ethnographic method
- taxonomies and analytic processes (meta-analysis)
- electronic portfolios
- design using technology enhanced spaces (Second Life, Wii, etc
- SO MANY PLATFORMS
- Atutor
- Sakai
- Confluence
- Blackboard
- Knowledge Forum
- GRAIL
- Drupal
- bibwiki
- ENCORE
- palm/handheld
- What are the challenges?
- changing the culture of how we teach. How do we decide who write what, who gets credit. In shared environments, these kinds of things become very important. One assignment was to add to wikipedia. How do you grade that?
- How to represent and aggregate these innovations?
- need to worry about justifying the time you spend?
- how to represent our innovations
- to capture for our deans, and for our peers
- what dimensions would we portray things on?
- panels to present the innovations - how to capture?
- can we get our students to work on this problem?
- possibly build rich media cases, to offer more interesting format than a wiki page...
- should we even be promoting these? When we don't have a strong sense yet of their impact
- How can we do formative evaluation? What kinds of things should the instructor look for?
- How can we add evaluative dimension?
- but then - how ca we help them grow and evolve.
- very important that "pedagogy leads technology"
- What is the way forward, in terms of institutional capacity building?
- the idea of "templates" that are formatted
- "owned" by some agency that is responsible for the content.
- there are some logical players who might establish the framework/template
- can the "owner" also embrace the growth and evolution idea - and avoid getting trapped in a "repository of cases" aproach
- community - how can we define it, identify it, sustain it. how to include students, instructors, peers, administrators?
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