--On Monday, April 10, 2000, 10:37 AM -0400 "Mark Guzdial"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>It made me think that a good bit of Swiki research has been going into
>>making the cases WhereWikiWorksNot work, or, at least, WorkBetter.
>
> Actually, alot of our research about Swikis has been about figuring
> out when they don't work, why they work when they do, and what
> they're good for.
Well, that's the precursor to making them work, eh? :)
Of course, we've been...er..."discussing" it for years!
> We have several papers at
> http://guzdial.cc.gatech.edu:8080/personal.122 on these subjects,
These look cool!
> and
> a couple others that I need to post yet (from ICLS2000, and some new
> journal articles). For example, we're exploring what the ebb and
> flow of "ThreadMode" is when it works
This is important.
>(e.g., does everyone have to
> post more than once for ThreadMode to work? Anyone?),
No! :)
In the class I'm currently TAing for, we're really just using a Swiki as a
Lecture Note repository and a Discussion Site. Some student made a
"discussion page" and that's what most use.
Sheesh. They rarely if ever fork off a page.
<sigh/>I took a kinda hands off approach to the Swiki, but I think stronger
modeling might have been useful. Or maybe we'll hit a critical point where
they start doing cool things.
> what are the
> problems of schools that Swikis might be good for (e.g. trying to
> deal with curricular integration), and what happens when you try to
> use it for expert review of student work.
Ah! My latest little mod was a site for the prof and me to assign
"discussion points" with automatic mail notification. Very slick, though not
very exciting. I'd love to get the the majors in the dept putting up their
work and let the grad students and professors provide critical responses. Or
some such.
No luck here, though. If it's not from IT central, it only happens if I'm
personally doing it :)
When are you guys going to work on philosophy courses and need outside
expert assistance? I promise to be embodied! ;)
I've found *this* site exciting:
http://www.eng.untech.com/serg/
Cheers,
Bijan Parsia.
