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ted ingrahamBarton explains what the heck a wiki is, and why compositionists ought to use them in their classrooms.
What the heck, you may ask, is a wiki? Why would I bother to learn about a technology with such a silly name? After all, I just spent $200 acquiring Mi -
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So, what would be some innovative uses for wikis in the composition classroom?
1. Any class project with a reference or encylopedic format. Instructions, manuals, glossaries, and the like are all excellent wiki applications.
2. A class or group project with a bibliographic format. Students could gather websites related to a topic, then annotate, rank, and organize them.
3. A letter or statement presented on behalf of the class. These documents occur often enough in the business world, where the "on behalf" basically means that everyone involved signed off on a draft. On a wiki, such a project would offer everyone a better chance to make a contribution.
4. A handbook or textbook. Students could build a guide to correct punctuation and evaluated as a class. Thus, every student would have a stake in the project and likely benefit from the instruction it contained. Students are also familiar with "textbook" English and its avoidance of personal-sounding prose.
5. Any other project that does not require specified authorship or protected documents. Wikis are authored by communities, not individuals.
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Mathieu PlourdeWhat the heck, you may ask, is a wiki? Why would I bother to learn about a technology with such a silly name? After all, I just spent $200 acquiring Microsoft Office, why on earth would I want to bother with anything else? Leave me alone, you silly man.
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Birgit FerranBy: Matt Barton on: Fri 21 of May, 2004
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Barton explains what the heck a wiki is, and why compositionists ought to use them in their classrooms.
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Barton explains what the heck a wiki is, and why compositionists ought to use them in their classrooms.
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Rudy GarnsI will try to explain what makes wikis so exciting and useful for doing that little thing we do, namely teach writing.
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David WarlickLet's begin by asking a simple question: Why should we incorporate a new technology into a writing classroom? The answer, for me, is obvious. We introduce new technologies if, and only if, they make our lives as teachers of writing less stressful and our
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Let's begin by asking a simple question: Why should we incorporate a new technology into a writing classroom? The answer, for me, is obvious. We introduce new technologies if, and only if, they make our lives as teachers of writing less stressful and our work more efficient. I have yet to meet a writing teacher who would disagree with me on the simple principle that the best composition pedagogy is one that produces the best student writers at the least expense--in both time and money. Furthermore, I don't think I need to wax on here in academicese about the virtues of preparing students to write "real writing," that is, developing writing skills they will actually use in their working lives. The #1 skill I think is worth teaching to writing students is effective collaboration. Whether we like to admit it or not, the romantic conception of the author-in-the-garret is found solely in English departments (and perhaps a few fiction publishers), but never outside it. Instead, writers work together in teams, often contributing no more to a document than "layout," inserting a graphic, changing a bulleted list to a numbered list and so on. A woman earning $150,000 a year may do no more than seek permissions to use a piece of copyrighted music in the background of a Powerpoint presentation. Writer? No. Woman using skills she should have learned in rhetoric and composition? Yes.
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