Archive for the ‘wiki’ Category

Reflecting on Collaborative Assessment

Monday, November 10th, 2008

I'm about to start the dreaded task of marking the wiki for Mobile Workforce Technologies.  I struggle with this every time.  I want to encourage student collaboration, but, when it comes to marking it, I want it easy to work out who did what so I can award a 'mark'.  ...

To structure or not

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

This wiki course always gets me thinking.  We have such a diversity of students that some thrown themselves almost bodily into working on the wiki, while others seem to be much slower to take up the challenge.  This makes it a challenge for us to shape tutorials in a manner ...

More about the wiki

Friday, December 8th, 2006

What did I expect when I set out to get students to use the wiki? I dont think I really expected much. The minimum they had to do was create two pages and write at least 1500 words in the wiki (this for 40% of their grade). ...

Oh … My … Gosh

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

I haven't been around much lately. Semester is finally over and assessment of students' participation in the wiki is about to start. The first student has submitted their journal. I was expecting maybe 5 pages. They needed to create at least 2-3 pages in the wiki. This ...

Wiki-stuff

Sunday, September 24th, 2006

It seems so long since I updated. The wiki seems to be taking a lot of my time, well, that and the QualIT conference. I have also had my computer re-imaged. That seems to be the standard fix by our IT department. Minor problem with your CD drive? ...