(Catching up on older email). Ken, we'll keep you in the loop as we develop our tools so that you can test them with your colleagues! Thanks! Mark >At 09:47 AM 1/7/00 -0500, you wrote: >>Just thought I'd let y'all know: We just won a big grant from the >>Mellon Foundation for work on Swikis. The focus of the grant is on >>measuring the costs and educational effectiveness of Swikis in >>undergraduate classroom settings, but there is also funding for two >>students a year (with Je77 one of those, for sure!) to work on >>documenting Swikis and creating tools to support their use, over >>the next 2.5 years. Our goal is to enable a Literature professor >>with no previous programming experience to set up Swikis. >> >>This means that we can keep cranking out improvements for the next >>couple of years. YAY!! >> >>Mark >>-------------------------- >>Mark Guzdial : Georgia Tech : College of Computing : Atlanta, GA 30332-0280 >>(404) 894-5618 : Fax (404) 894-0673 : [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/Faculty/Mark.Guzdial.html > >As a literature professor with considerable computer experience who >has tried to get other >literature professors without to use Swikis, I congratulate you on >your grant. I have felt >since I first found them that Swikis had some untapped pedagogical >powers. I saw the >problem as the fact that most of the folks working on them were >still heavily involved in >the code and functionalities. This slight shift away from producing >code (which, of course, >still needs to be written/maintained/improved/etc.) to how Swikis >might be used >in a pedagogy is very welcome from my perspective. > >I will be very interested in your progress. I also want you to know >that I stand ready >to help in any pedagogical way that I can (all this in spite of the >fact that my old >Swiki is off-line and the fact that I have yet to get any version of >Comanche to work >on my NT box <g>). > >Congratulations..... > >kt > >======================================== >Ken Tompkins >Professor of Literature >Richard Stockton College of NJ >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://loki.stockton.edu/~ken/homepage/homepage.htm >Wharram Percy -- Deserted Medieval Village: >http://loki.stockton.edu/~ken/wharram/wharram.htm >======================================== -------------------------- Mark Guzdial : Georgia Tech : College of Computing : Atlanta, GA 30332-0280 (404) 894-5618 : Fax (404) 894-0673 : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/Faculty/Mark.Guzdial.html
