I'm wondering how I happened upon COM125 (the 2007 source of yesterday's notion) to have it in my bloglines. I guess it might have been a link Michael Stephens shared as he was doing a class using a blog around that time too. And I am so very intrigued by the notion of using web2.0 tools for study programs.
Which brings us to the other reason I pinned that last post: 'theory' reminded his class (and attracted my curiosity) of the class studyguide wiki. The teacher appears to have used this as an assessment tool (points for submissions) while providing a mechanism for study in which students collaboratively built notes on the designated topics.
I wish very much that the collaborative components of one of my recent classes could have been done by wiki rather than e-portfolio. Both because I believe more workplaces are experimenting with wiki-style intranets and because it is easier to learn how to use and collaborate with a straightforward wiki than the multiple features of e-portfolio.
In e-portfolio for our separate contributions to be evidenced we were stuck with a jumbling method of commenting (like to a blog post) on someone else's work (with the backwards and forwards of quote and suggestion). While it is possible for group members to edit and work on the same document in eportfolio, it does not keep a history of the edits to evidence who has made what kind of contribution (relevant for assessment).
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