Assignment10CilkeClarkKellerYork

Assignment10CilkeClarkKellerYork

To Do

Be prepared to give a 5-10 minute presentation about your project in class so the other students and the instructors understand your ideas and can see the progress you have made

Please post in the Wiki the following things about your project:

• title
• abstract
• team members and their responsibilities (e.g: how have you split up your work?)
• why is the project of interest to you?
• description of what you have done so far
• plan what you will do in the remaining time till the final projects reports are due
• relationship of your work to the major themes presented and discussed in the class
• references identified

Group response

1. Members of the Group

Dain Cilke, Matt Clark, Scott Keller, Ian York

2. Question 1

Title:
Class Wiki 2.0

Abstract:
Wikis are a part of our everyday lives and a great way of spreading information; however, how can we better align the xwiki tools and educational practices to enhance participation and foster collaboration.

Members / Responsibilities:
Dain Cilke: My role in this assignment will be to research the dynamics of adding panels to the wiki and exploring various aesthetic and functional facelifts that could be applied to the wiki
Matt Clark: will be focusing on Word Clouds as a means to summarize / aggregate / display wiki activity around particular concepts
Scott Keller: My task is to implement a message board on the class wiki and analyze it/ modify it in order to encourage community interaction and create groups
Ian York: I am focusing on:
Methods to discover / develop groups around shared interests
Possibilities of aligning teaching practices with wiki options that cultivates digital and physical participation.
Interest in Project:
The general interest in the project for the group is the realization that a wiki may have a greater potential beyond what is currently being implemented. It is our belief that a more collaborative experience can be achieved through wiki enhancements used in conjunction with pedagogical approaches.

Progress thus far:
Basic research and division of responsibility. We've spent time investigating the xWiki documentation and optional modules to better understand potential options. We're also investigating other research done on the use of wikis in the classroom.

Plans:
Work harder and finish the project

Fit with Class Major Themes:
E-Learning
Collaboration
Mega-Creativity
References:
http://www.xwiki.org/bin/view/Main/ProductDocumentation
c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki?WikiWikiWeb
Cubric, M., Wiki-based Process Framework for Blended Learning, presented at WikiSym'07, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1296953

Reinhold, S. and Abawi, D.F., Concepts for Extending Wiki Systems to Supplement Collaborative Learning, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3942 (2006), pp. 755-767. http://www.springerlink.com/content/1n5r7763285hr553/fulltext.pdf

Parker, K.R. and Chao, J.T., Wiki as a Teaching Tool, Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge and Learning Objects, Vol. 3, 2007. http://ijklo.org/Volume3/IJKLOv3p057-072Parker284.pdf

www.csszengarden.com
Reed, Martin. "Post dammit, or else!" CommunitySpark. 17 Oct. 2008. 4 Nov. 2008 .

Reed, Martin. "The best online community: A forum or a blog?" CommunitySpark. 7 Feb. 2008. 4 Nov. 2008 .

Agre, Philip, and Douglas Schuler. "Cyberspace Innkeeping." Reinventing Technology, Rediscovering Community. Greenwich, CT: Greenwood Group, 1997.

Schuler, Doug. "Community networks: building a new participatory medium." Communications of the ACM 37 (1994): 38-51.

3. Question 2

4. Question 3