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TCC08: Wikis and Blogs and Tags: Oh Why?

Experiencing eLearning

Important to teach students collaborative skills to prepare for work. Teams are goal-directed. Wikis as classic example of collaborative tool. Gave an example of faculty handbook created with wiki (using MediaWiki). Wikis make it very clear who did what–always a problem with group work for grading.

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New Work and New Work Skills

Clark Quinn

Contrast this with a A Fourth Grader Wikipedia Update. Still, the point here is that many of us were taught how scarce and precious information was. My kids face the problem of having too much information and having to learn how to filter. And, it's not just access to information that's changed. I'm good at filtering information.