Comments on: Wikis: Ways to use them for a more Collaboration and Interaction http://www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk/elearning/wikis-ways-to-use-them-for-a-more-collaboration-and-interaction/ eLearning, Web 2.0, Blogging and the stuff in between Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:57:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: David Hopkins http://www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk/elearning/wikis-ways-to-use-them-for-a-more-collaboration-and-interaction/comment-page-1/#comment-158 David Hopkins Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:51:48 +0000 http://www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk/?p=2096#comment-158 <b>Lindsay</b> - My thoughts exactly. Wikis can be quite daunting to those who are accustomed to them too, but they are the kind of thing you can only truly understand when you have a reason to use it, and continue to use until you no longer have to look at the support notes. All the best, David Lindsay – My thoughts exactly. Wikis can be quite daunting to those who are accustomed to them too, but they are the kind of thing you can only truly understand when you have a reason to use it, and continue to use until you no longer have to look at the support notes.

All the best, David

]]> By: Lindsay Jordan http://www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk/elearning/wikis-ways-to-use-them-for-a-more-collaboration-and-interaction/comment-page-1/#comment-157 Lindsay Jordan Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:47:40 +0000 http://www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk/?p=2096#comment-157 Thanks for this David - a nice, simple illustration of what wikis can do for enabling collaborative learning. I've always liked that 'camping trip' example in the Plain English vid; the first time I set up a wiki myself was to enable our gospel choir to collaboratively organise costume colours for a performance as we didn't have enough time to sort it out in rehearsal - I find that's usually hits the spot when demonstrating to people what a wiki is! Finding some great educational examples of wiki use to show newcomers to the technology is a little more challenging; there is some fantastic collaboration taking place on educational wikis but they can look a little chaotic to newcomers who aren't accustomed to the look and feel of this type of collaboration. However, this can open up some interesting conversations about the relative importance of process and product :-) Thanks for this David – a nice, simple illustration of what wikis can do for enabling collaborative learning. I’ve always liked that ‘camping trip’ example in the Plain English vid; the first time I set up a wiki myself was to enable our gospel choir to collaboratively organise costume colours for a performance as we didn’t have enough time to sort it out in rehearsal – I find that’s usually hits the spot when demonstrating to people what a wiki is!

Finding some great educational examples of wiki use to show newcomers to the technology is a little more challenging; there is some fantastic collaboration taking place on educational wikis but they can look a little chaotic to newcomers who aren’t accustomed to the look and feel of this type of collaboration. However, this can open up some interesting conversations about the relative importance of process and product :-)

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