Leigh, and others, What are the main differences in goals (and, as a result, "software-as-law") of Wikispaces and Wikieducator?
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 7:22 AM, Leigh Blackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Nellie, I'm reflecting on the reality that not a lot of collaboration > happens the way we seem to expect it to happen, and yet there is > productivity. From my experience, the availability of an add free media wiki > in which to develop web content for my inidividual purposes is a primary > motivation to use Wikieducator (along with the many other free publishing > services that are available). If my work is of use to others that is great, > but more and more I am becoming comfortable with the fact that collaboration > in terms of page edits is actually insignificant and unimportant to me here. > Now days I wonder if I actually even want collaboration in the sense we are > expecting - the page edit sense. That sort of collaboration is certainly > enabled by the wiki, and is evident in things like Wikipedia - but we are > not building an encylcopedia are we. What we are doing is much more open > ended, much more complex with everypage designed for a specific context, > basically impossible for random uncoordinated collaborative edits like there > is in Wikipedia. So, I'm wondering if we should adjust our expectations > about collaboration? I'm proposing a consideration of a networked and > distributed collaboration, much like what can be observed in blogging > networks for example, and what we can see on the Wikispaces project. Could > it be that a networked and distributed collaboration is more realistic and > in fact waht is happening here? If we came to the project with this type of > understanding about collaboration, would that change the rewards, > motivations and expectations? Where does that leave the idea of one-ness > that is promoted in Wikieducator? I would hope that it would lead to > Wikieducator being very much in the background. > > -- Cheers, MariaD I write, 'In the beginning was the Deed!' - Goethe, Faust naturalmath.com: a sketch of a social math site groups.google.com/group/naturalmath: a mailing list about math maker activities --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
