a hierarchical power structure for the state’s body of creating and disseminating original knowledge.
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in title, tags, annotations or urlSalon - Community Based Annotations - 2 views
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new tool using social media for group peer critique of student writing
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Salon would seem to hold some considerable promise as a tool in the kind of peer tutoring involved in Justin's project with Ximena & Jason..
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Salon would appear to hold some considerable promise as a tool in such peer tutoring projects as Justin's with Ximena and Jason.
Wiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom / Robert E. Cummings and Matt Barton, Editors - 0 views
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Wikipedia has clearly demonstrated, however, that knowledge can be created and disseminated by people who may or may not be credentialed, who contribute as little or as much as they like, who do not need to wait for approval or other works, and who are motivated by something more elusive than cash.
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as the Nature study has shown, they cannot simply be dismissed as unreliable either.
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Teaching Tool: Blogging a Mass Killing - 1 views
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Unfortunately I think the process closely resembles the standard model of think, write, and discuss since blog entries are typically written in isolation. You had your students create their blog entries in the same room at the same time after witnessing the same event. This is far from typical. A better idea might have been to have students respond to the same blog post via commenting. This is where you more commonly see multiple opinions/voices related to the same theme - a singular blog entry.
Science fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 3 views
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Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible (or at least non-supernatural) content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities. Exploring the consequences of scientific innovations is one purpose of science fiction, making it a "literature of ideas".[1] Science fiction is largely based on writing rationally about alternative possible worlds or futures.[2] It is similar to, but differs from fantasy in that, within the context of the story, its imaginary elements are largely possible within scientifically established or scientifically postulated laws of nature (though some elements in a story might still be pure imaginative speculation). The settings for science fiction are often contrary to known reality, but most science fiction relies on a considerable degree of suspension of disbelief, which is facilitated in the reader's mind by potential scientific explanations or solutions to various fictional elements. Science fiction elements include:
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Academic Writing that Engages Emotions - 0 views
The Digital Writer - 0 views
As Wikipedia Turns 10, It Focuses on Ways to Improve Student Learning - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views
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For the 2010-11 academic year, Wikimedia also launched the national Public Policy Initiative to recruit professors who would like their students to add content to the anyone-can-edit encyclopedia as part of the curriculum.
Hub-and-spoke blogging with lots of students - 1 views
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The blogroll is then split into groups
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In practice, the groups serve several purposes. First, membership in a group give individual students a more focused and manageable reading load.
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Second, focused groups mean that each student has a guaranteed audience.
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Another in the Long List of Reasons Student Projects Should be Public - 0 views
Google Documents Discussions - 0 views
Creating Keyboard Shortcuts for ANYTHING - 0 views
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