the that shades Phaedrus plane-tree is deliciously nonliving systems!

bringing that "old school multi-modal nuggetry" to USFSP since 2006

Trey Bio

4311 6319 link pile

trey.conner@gmail.com

AIM: "rhythmizomenoid"

Trey Conner basking reverently in the dappled sunlight reaching the base of Devil's Millhopper, Gainesville FL, August 16, 2009.

August 25

mood: open

listening: Robert Fripp, "Let the Power Fall"

wiki dervishing:(yet another) ode to wiki

Wikis are community-formation technologies within classrooms (and, potentially,  between classrooms across the curriculum). Wikis are best known  as tools for distributed non hierarchical knowledge production. Participants at Wikipedia, for example, gather, distribute, and edit a wide spectrum of information that touches on, but does not always quite engage, a diverse range of important issues. While broadcast and print media often raised doubts about the efficacy user-generated content, in education, many have found that this participatory turn is precisely what promotes active learning and engagement. As we move towards outcomes-based and student-driven curricula at USFSP, working with students in wiki has proven effective for seeding student-driven, issues-based culture of engagement among students.

It is true that in educational contexts, writing in wiki lets individual students revisit their best work, and continue to grow ideas over time. This encourages the practices of recursivity, reflection, and response-ability that we in the USFSP writing community believe are elemental to both (trans)personal growth and civic engagement. Because wikis are multimodal, and the content and design of projects grown in wiki are easily exportable to eportfolios, even the busiest student can find time to experiment with new ideas and forms in their writing.

Perhaps even more exciting, though, is the potential wiki harbors for helping each one of us, as writers, experience the collective force made possible when a group of writers, writing in concert, endeavor to make a difference in our world through learning, research, and writing. Wyrd to the wiki!

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