GVU Technical Report Number:
GIT-GVU-00-19
Title:
A Catalog of CoWeb Uses
Authors:
Mark Guzdial
Abstract:
Use of the CoWeb (or Swiki) is now two years long at Georgia Tech.
Over 120 of those CoWebs, across some ten servers, have been
created and used by literally several thousand students. The
inventiveness of the teachers and students has been amazing.
Teachers (and, in many cases, students) have developed some
tremendously innovative and useful activities for learning.
However, very few teachers have the time to look at other teachers'
CoWebs, so the insight doesn't get shared with others who might use
it! The invented activities are often transportable from one
domain to another, but the inventor doesn't have time (or even a
forum) for sharing it with possible adopters. There is a real need
for a kind of catalog of uses for the CoWeb in order to share them.
This document is a first pass at a catalog, to help inform other
CoWeb-using teachers about the bright ideas of others.
Preceeding the catalog is a brief section suggesting ways of
combining these activities in a real classroom. We recognize that
different styles of class will lend themselves more to some kinds
of activities than others. Our description talks about the
interaction between class style and content with our experience
with the different kinds of activities.
Keywords:
CoWeb, Swiki, collaboration
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