I love the PBworks site. I've been amazed at how well it tracks posts and makes collaboration easier if your working on a single document. Making a second page for discussion I was not fond of all it seem to be good for is posting facts. It did make posting information that "might be used" easier so I can see where it has it's purpose. This seemed to deter from the actually work needed. By using the same document page it forces the writer to review and submit there facts more legibly to the group. I looked over a number of Discussion Boards and it appeared to be the same thing, just a lot of facts and link posts waiting for revision. In my opinion I believe the the discussion should take place in the comment area and work done on one page.
I will definitely be using the PBworks page in the fall with my class and I've already set up an account. like the fact that it tracks students individually what they post and you can compare document changes using the history button. Danielle taught me how to use the Star Button to concentrate on the specific pages I'm working on. Overall the collaboration has been going well despite the short time period and trying to get everyone to make changes on the single document. I think with more time lets say 2-3 weeks the collaboration would work out perfectly.
Collaborations should be a month long project. This would give students the time to coordinate more effectively. It takes at least 4-5 days to get everyone linked up online unless you have a classroom environment to prearrange everything. Tracking down the info takes about a 4-5 days then collaboration about a week or more to get a really good product. So far this collaboration has gone better than most class I've had group projects in thanks too the work some of the fellow student's have put in so far.
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