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04 Dec 07

03 Dec 07

The Mason Historiographiki is a wiki (collaborative website) written and edited by graduate students in history at George Mason University who are preparing for written or oral comprehensive examinations. Only they and their instructors may edit it, but anyone interested in their take on the literature of history is welcome to read. In its initial incarnation, it will focus on twentieth-century United States history.

25 Nov 07

Toutes ces lacunes reflètent l’incapacité des portails fermés à suivre l’évolution fulgurante des nouvelles technologies. Ce patchwork de technologies diverses n’est jamais à la hauteur des technologies de pointe qu’un utilisateur aguerri réussit à assembler dans un écosystème de méthodes efficaces. Comme le faisait justement remarquer un collègue qui a recours à la vidéoconférence pour communiquer avec d’autres professeurs de l’école, « c’est pas d’un portail qu’on a besoin, mais d’un portable! »

13 Nov 07

Récemment, Konrad Glogowski nous faisait connaître un projet métacognitif qui repose sur la vision d’un blogue à long terme (Blog of Proximal Development : How to Grow a Blog). Au-delà de l’excellente réflexion de Glogowski sur l’importance de sensibiliser les élèves à la culture d’un blogue, je m’émerveille devant la simplicité et la portée de son illustration qu’il résume à trois composantes : la finalité, l’action et l’environnement.

She required all of the 34 students in the course to write an article for their final class project and submit it to Wikipedia. By the end of the term, all of the papers had met her standards — in fact, she said the papers were generally the best she had ever had, since students worked harder knowing their work would be seen by a wide audience. But one of the papers was rejected almost immediately by Wikipedians, and four others were later removed by the community for not being up to the encyclopedia’s standards.

The structure of the traditional term paper can limit its educational value. To make the assignment more meaningful, students published their papers in Wikipedia. This session will examine how publishing for a large online community motivated students to do better work and deal with issues of voice, knowledge, and community.