The recently concluded WikiSym (short for the International Symposium
on Wikis) has published a number of the academic papers presented.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-11-02/Conference_report
One that caught my eye was Herding the Cats: The Influence of Groups
Jim,
Thanks a million for sharing, I am deeply interested in learning more about
wikis.
Saludos
2009/11/3 Jim Tittsler jtitts...@gmail.com
The recently concluded WikiSym (short for the International Symposium
on Wikis) has published a number of the academic papers presented.
Thanks, John, for a very thoughtful and comprehensive rant on
copyright. I learned a lot
My latest rant is on socialization versus education
See: http://wikieducator.org/User:Philbartle#Phil.27s_Rants
Cheers,
Phil
--
If the coach does the pushups,
The athlete will not get stronger
Community
I've replied about socialization:
http://wikieducator.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Philbartlelqt_method=replylqt_operand=11782#lqt_thread_11782
I think establishing new social norms, influencing old ones, and
designing social norms for your communities is something we have to
help people learn,
Did anything ever come of earlier suggestions that there be a
WikiEducator blog with multiple contributors or a collaboratively
written newsletter?
I poked around and didn't find much.
old discussions
Thanks, Jim, wonderful resource:
One that caught my eye was Herding the Cats: The Influence of Groups
in Coordinating Peer Production? I've been skeptical of the emphasis
on workgroups, but this paper makes a case for how joining a group can
affect behavior (and complement individual
Hi Jim,
Thanks for the pointer to this research paper -- a solid piece of research.
It's an insightful read, most notably the significant increase in
productivity and output using the group approach.
mmm -- wondering how our community can leverage the advantages of the group
approach?
In
Hi Valerie,
Good idea, and thanks for raising it again
One thing that comes to mind, is if the 'blog' or whatever, is well-planned,
it could take a page from Ken Udas' creation - Terra Incognita (Penn State).
http://blog.worldcampus.psu.edu/
He had a lineup of folks on a monthly basis who
Hi Valerie,
I'm pleased that you have reminded us of the Newsletter and blog ideas!
*
Thoughts about a Newsletter*
Yes -- the OER Foundation definitely wants to support and promote a
newsletter for the WikiEducator community. There is so much happening in
our family around the world and we need
OOPS --- A major typo :-(
My earlier email reads As you know, WikiEducator will succumb to corporate
advertising on our open education sites.
MEGA typo -- this should read WikiEducator will *NOT *succumb to corporate
advertising on our open education sites.
WE don't do corporate advertising on
Hi Alison,
That's a great suggestion. I think there are a number of opportunities to
tweak the L4C initiative to provide guided support in getting involved with
projects and workgroups.
Also -- I'm very keen to explore opportunities for developing
intermediate-level tutorials. That is,
I will join the herds of cats (lol) supporting Alison's remarks and I
also agree with Wayne's perspective on this.
Cheers,
Patricia
From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com
[mailto:wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Wayne Mackintosh
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 6:01 PM
To:
Dear friends,
As almost other sectors of communication, Blogs also have a very big mass of
audience. For this audience penetration, though Blogs are generally
considered personal publishing, almost all the Corporates in the world
maintain Corporate Blogs.
I hope we can combine together the ideas
Hi Halim,
You have done great things. Congratulations to you! Your pages and works are so
appealing to the reader.
Mbasu
--- On Tue, 11/3/09, Steve Foerster st...@hiresteve.com wrote:
From: Steve Foerster st...@hiresteve.com
Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: November UPE
To: WikiEducator
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