1. What was the most important thing you learned this week?
Team skills..
2. What was particularly interesting/boring in this week?
It was interesting to read different experiences for example using blogs.
3. Was there something you didn't quite understand and want to know more about it?
Actually no.
4. What kind of questions/ideas/experiences this week's activities raised for you?
I really do think that wikis have lots of potential. Even as part of webcourses.
5. Which tools did you use this week, explain what was the purpose of using these tools (e.g. social talk, to regulate my team activities, to work on documents)?
This blog is all the time under construction :) I also visited my group member´s blogs, made links to them from here. I used Moodle of course, to read the materials and check out what to do etc. and also to choose my group.
6. With whom did you communicate during this week, how many times, with which tools, and for what purposes?
Well, I read the Moodle forum, did not feel necessary to comment, though.
Team skills..
2. What was particularly interesting/boring in this week?
It was interesting to read different experiences for example using blogs.
3. Was there something you didn't quite understand and want to know more about it?
Actually no.
4. What kind of questions/ideas/experiences this week's activities raised for you?
I really do think that wikis have lots of potential. Even as part of webcourses.
5. Which tools did you use this week, explain what was the purpose of using these tools (e.g. social talk, to regulate my team activities, to work on documents)?
This blog is all the time under construction :) I also visited my group member´s blogs, made links to them from here. I used Moodle of course, to read the materials and check out what to do etc. and also to choose my group.
6. With whom did you communicate during this week, how many times, with which tools, and for what purposes?
Well, I read the Moodle forum, did not feel necessary to comment, though.
2 comments:
You write: I really do think that wikis have lots of potential. Even as part of webcourses..
I started to think of my own experiences of using wiki. The good point is of course that people can co-construct texts and weave together more complicated materials within one wiki. But what if the course is running mostly similar way several years - then it would mean to reuse some of the materials previously developed by students themselves to teach new students. Nice and easy However hard part is again that the facilitator needs to every year come up with new set of assignments.
Another thing that bothers me in wikis is the system of linking. We all know that links tend to break, the materials do not get updated at wiki pages. That is the problem of the linking technology and i am sure in long term it will influence courses held in wikis, especially the course materials.
I think we need to use more these new social retrieval mechanisms, mashing feeds to make the content updatable in general and probably also more learner centred. In wiki we can search by keywords emerging from text, but often there is a superstructure in our mind how and why we write something, not all the associations are in the text but serve as metadata to make the texts easier to find and use.
I have not found a good way how to make group communicate, discuss and self-regulate in wikis. It seems we just write and see what others think of it.
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