Wiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom

✍ Scribed by Matthew Barton, Robert Cummings

• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 277
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

When most people think of wikis, the first---and usually the only---thing that comes to mind is Wikipedia. The editors of Wiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom, Robert E. Cummings and Matt Barton, have assembled a collection of essays that challenges this common misconception, providing an engaging and helpful array of perspectives on the many pressing theoretical and practical issues that wikis raise. Written in an engaging and accessible manner that will appeal to specialists and novices alike, Wiki Writing draws on a wealth of practical classroom experiences with wikis to offer a series of richly detailed and concrete suggestions to help educators realize the potential of these new writing environments.Robert E. Cummings began work at Columbus State University in August 2006 as Assistant Professor of English and Director of First-Year Composition. Currently he also serves as the Writing Specialist for CSU's Quality Enhancement Plan, assisting teachers across campus in their efforts to maximize student writing in their curriculum. He recently concluded a three-year research study with the Inter/National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research and continues to research in the fields of computers and writing, writing across the curriculum, writing in the disciplines, and curricular reform in higher education.Matt Barton is Assistant Professor, St. Cloud State University, Department of English-Rhetoric and Applied Writing Program. His research interests are rhetoric, new media, and computers and writing. He is the author of Dungeons and Desktops: A History of Computer Role-Playing Games and has published in the journals Text and Technology, Computers and Composition, Game Studies, and Kairos. He is currently serving as Associate Editor of Kairosnews and Managing Editor of Armchair Arcade."Wiki Writing will quickly become the standard resource for using wikis in the classroom."---Jim Kalmbach, Illinois State Universitydigitalculturebooks is an imprint of the University of Michigan Press and the Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan Library dedicated to publishing innovative and accessible work exploring new media and their impact on society, culture, and scholarly communication. Visit the website at www.digitalculture.org.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 20
What Was a Wiki, and Why Do I Care? A Short and Usable History of Wikis......Page 22
Wikis and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning......Page 38
Wikis in the Classroom: A Taxonomy......Page 40
Wiki Justice, Social Ergonomics, and Ethical Collaborations......Page 65
Building Learning Communities with Wikis......Page 92
Success through Simplicity: On Developmental Writing and Communities of Inquiry......Page 111
Wikis in Composition and Communication Classrooms......Page 128
Disrupting Intellectual Property: Collaboration and Resistance in Wikis......Page 130
Agency and Accountability: The Paradoxes of Wiki Discourse......Page 144
One Wiki, Two Classrooms......Page 158
Content and Commentary: Parallel Structures of Organization and Interaction on Wikis......Page 165
Above and Below the Double Line: Refactoring and That Old-Time Revision......Page 181
Wikis and the Higher Education Classroom......Page 196
An (Old) First-Timer’s Learning Curve: Curiosity, Trial, Resistance, and Accommodation......Page 246
Is There a Wiki in This Class? Wikibooks and the Future of Higher Education......Page 198
Writing in the Wikishop: Constructing Knowledge in the Electronic Classroom......Page 215
Wiki Lore and Politics in the Classroom......Page 225
GlossaTechnologia: Anatomy of a Wiki-Based Annotated Bibliography......Page 237
Bibliography......Page 258
Contributors......Page 268
Index......Page 274