So I'm thinking of using a wiki in one of my classes this fall. Generally, I'm motivated by the "why one when many" model of information delivery. More specifically, since I never know where the next calculator question is going to come from, the students could work from their collective knowledge. Sounds good in theory. Post what you know, it is more than I could ever tell you.
Problem one with the theory is where does the wiki wiv, er, live. One option is at pbwiki. While surfing throught the employee information, I found the following:Lynn Wu got her undergraduate degree in Golf and Sports Turf Management. She won silver in the biathlon in Torino. She also took on Wolverine on American Gladiators. Coming in at 6 feet 4 inches, Lynn keeps the PBwiki team in line with her amazon-like ferocity. In her spare time Lynn enjoys LOLcatting, practicing the art of bowyery, and writing fake biographies.
I'm leaning toward pbwiki as the external host for the class wiki if only because the upper-level mucky-mucks are cool with this and see amazon-like ferocity as a plus.
Updated 12:40 PM — The tagline for EditMe: "geek tested, newbie approved" is also a useful measure of quality.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
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I like PB wiki a lot, and have used it in class. It's not so good for synchronous editing, however, so beware if you plan to have students all using it at the same time during a class. There's also wikispaces, but I doubt that their bios are as interesting...
Do you mean synchronous editing of the same document? That makes sense.
What if two students are editing different pages, is that OK?
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