The problem with 40 students is that there is no way to read (much less comment upon) every post if every student is posting every week. I am toying then with a rotation model (inspired by Randy Bass), in which students are divided into five groups of eight students, cycling through these five roles:
* Role 1 - Students are "first readers," posting initial questions and insights about the reading to the class blog by Monday morning
* Role 2 - Students are "respondents," building upon, disagreeing with, or clarifying the first readers' posts by class time on Tuesday
* Role 3 - Students are "synthesizers," mediating and synthesizing the dialogue between first readers and respondents by Thursday
* Role 4 - Students are responsible for the week's class notes (see next section on Wikis)
* Role 5 - Students have this week "off" in terms of blogging and the wiki
I like the rotation model because each group of students is reading for and reacting to something different. The shifting positionality affords them greater traction, offers greater variety, and guarantees a dialogue without comments from myself.
(1) A wiki debate visualization tool that lets you:
present the strongest case on any debate that matters to you
(2) A web-based, creative commons project to increase the transparency and rigor of public debate everywhere-by making the collective insight and intelligence of the global community freely available to all and filtering out the noise.
(3) A global graph of all the debates that enables us to visualise and deepen our understanding of the ways in which different debates are semantically interrelated, and ways in which these interrelated debates shape, and are shaped by, each other.
Spell with flickr is a neat app that allows you to create banners or other text with flickr images. Perfect for embedding in wikis or using on blogs or other Web sites.
"Mash your ideas and media together with friends in a dynamic whiteboard wiki. Using photos, videos, and other web content you can instantly create brainstorms, presentations, scrapbooks, and enjoy an interactive chat with more than 50 friends."
For a list of gamebooks, see List of gamebooks.
A gamebook is a book that allows the reader to participate in the story by making choices that affect the course of the narrative
Qwiki allows users to learn more about a variety of topics through multimedia and storytelling. Users can also contribute content to make Qwiki even better.