Friday, April 25, 2008
Wikis on Campus: Spring 2008
Many Vassar professors are using wikis in collaborative writing projects.
A wiki is a great way to do asynchronous collaborative creation.
Here’s a great bit of eLearning on what a wiki is:
It can take a while to wrap your brain around the wiki concept as it is a paradigm shift.
Here are some examples of Vassar Professors using wikis with their students:
My Lien Nguyen
Environmental Studies
Ethnic Markets Research Course
Sarita McCoy Gregory
Political Science
POL383 Democratic Engagement: http://poli383.pbwiki.com/
Poli 271
David Esteban
Biology Department
Microbiology
Linta Varghese
Anthropology
Urban Anthropology
Maria Höhn - History
Silke von der Emde - Germanic Studies
History and Memory
Mark Smith and Jodi Schwarz are using DokuWiki to have multiple users maintain the Computer Science Department Website.