1. Fair assessment. Peer editing is one big advantage of wiki, which means it is easy for you to edit other's work and yours will be easily edited as well. This may cause a problem for teacher to assess the contribution of individual learner, since their contribution may be changed or erased.
2. Timely feedback. Since wiki is a new tech applied in my class, teacher's involvment and encouragement are rather necessary in order to smooth over students' recoginition of wiki's role. However, this may prove to be a tough mission as we normally have 50 students in one class and we are teaching 2-3 classes in the same term. If I attempt to organize the blocks and give comment, I may have to skip all meals.
3. I am thinking about the third problem, coming soon!
Some suggestions/comments…
ReplyDelete1. You, as the administrator, will have access to the "page history" and will be able to see who changes what (and at what time). This may help you to assess the individuals and the groups.
2. If you are putting the students into groups of 5-7, perhaps you could focus on grading one wiki for each group. This seems a lot less daunting than looking at 50 wikis!
3. I look forward to hearing the third one... :-)
Hi, Nikki, thank for solving my problems. To keep you by my side as an instrutor, I will definitely come up with the 3rd, the 4th....haha!
ReplyDeleteGood solution Nikki! Another idea is to grade students on their contributions as a learning activity and not based on the final essay outcome of one individual.
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