Re: [seul-edu] Reservations about Wikis: Site tools for Schoolforge

[David Bucknell <david@members.iteachnet.com>]

Ok, Larry. I don't claim to have used them much; I just want to make
sure that the needs of curriculum development by groups are taken care
of and I don't want the tool we choose to make that impossible. If I'm
wrong about Wiki's, that's great. I know you're not pushing them, but
just support them as valuable tools. Do you think they would allow
different groups to work on their own projects, each with a project
leader a la sourceforge/open source dev process?

DAvid
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001,
Prevett, Larry wrote:

> > Ok. If I'm wrong, please point out how. My reservations about Wiki's for
> > curriculum are:
>
> David,
>
> I think your reservations about wikis come from some
> common misconceptions about wikis. I have found them
> to be extremely valuable tools for curriculum and
> curriculum development. As I mentioned in a previous
> post, I don't think a wiki is the best primary tool for
> Schoolforge, but I do think that wikis are an important
> tool to include in any educational package.
>
> Rather than go on about it here, I opened a page in the
> seul-edu wiki.
>
> http://www.seul.org:8080/wiki/edu/WhatGoodIsaWiki
>
> Maybe any people interested in this topic could post
> replies to the wiki page as an experiment?
>
> Doug, is this ok? I don't want to suggest anything
> that diverts the main content of the mailing
> list. (Although for this thread that would be like
> trying to divert a fire hose with one of those
> little tiny plastic red straws ...)
>
> L. Prevett
> Mathematics Instructor
> Cochise College, Sierra Vista, AZ, US
> prevettl@cochise.cc.az.us
>