After leaning about Ping Pong, writing my 1st blogg, today, it was time for the 1st Wiki! My spontaneous reaction was: … but this is a very much of a “blogg-like” tool? However I discovered after the break (and a coffe) that I have missed one important detail! Actually this is a rather unique tool since as opposed to a blogg, a wiki offers the possibility to publish information that is intended to be modified thus opening all the possibilities for different forms of collaborative working. What I also liked about it is the extreme ease in editing and the possibility to track the changes.
Now the question is whether and how I could integrate Wiki in my current teaching? My first reaction is that I would like to try to integrate first wiki in one of the post-grad courses I’m running and which is build on a weekly research seminar series given by invited speakers. In this course I usually ask the students to individually write a half page résumé at the end of each seminar. With wiki "in hands", we could take those summaries MUCH and much further...
I could for example build a group of 4 students for each seminar where the students could not only summarize the content of the seminar but also express their views and debate the presented seminar. The other students will be expected to comment and challenge the group’s work with the help of existing literature. Another step, would be to involve the invited speakers into those discussions, but for now, I would need to rethink about how I could implement this step?
Thanks all for an inspiring day! and looking forward to see you again tomorrow and remember to be Wiki-Wiki! so click here.
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