Browsing through NYCWP : Weblogs & Beyond thinking in terms of my proposed CS course Social Impact of Computer Technology
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Sandy posted the following:
I think there are MANY significant differences between blogs and wikis. Wikis erase authorship—there should ideally be no sign of an opinion or a personal touch to the writing. There may be a record of who edited what, but it’s not designed for the ego. Wikis are really interesting because they allow for collaboration and make the everyman an expert. Wikis are constantly changing, are always updated, and the writing that may be there one day may be significantly different from the next.
Thus wikis are good for group work. But how do you assess a student created wiki; or put crudely how does one grade a student wiki. But the problem is that if group work is anonymous (that is, individual effort is not recorded) there’s a huge temptation for some of the group to just coast and let others (or even one person) do the lion’s share of the donkey work :-). So in a group wiki I’d be looking for ways to
Posted by markp at March 14, 2005 01:41 PMBlogs, on the other hand, are usually all about the author, even in group/multi-blogs. Personal, opinion-filled writing is the norm even about “news” stories. Forget objectivity. Blogs inspire good writing (I think) and style where as wikis inspire clarity and exactness.