[Web4lib] The Wikipedia Gotcha -- the student perspective

[Micah Stevens]

Not knowing the requirements of the project, this may be misplaced, but 
it sounds like knowing the final format, perhaps a wiki wasn't the best 
collaborative tool to use? Did you investigate Google's word processor? 
It's not ideal, but for a collaborate paper would perhaps work out better.

Just curious on your thoughts, this list may not be the place for a 
discussion on collaborative tools, but that's part of my job, so I have 
quite a bit if interest in the subject.

-Micah

On 03/02/2007 06:19 AM, Sharon Foster wrote:
> I'm finishing up a group assignment this week with three other 
> classmates. A wiki had been set up for purposes of collaboration on 
> the group project, but the result is still required to be in the usual 
> term paper format. We had already written the "paper" on the wiki, so 
> for each of us to cut and paste it into a Word document is needless 
> extra work, in my biased personal opinion. And just for the record, I 
> am not a member of the "younger generation" by a long shot.
>
> web4lib-request at webjunction.org wrote:
>> The academy is changing very slowly (just
>> look at the tenure process) but a younger generation is being weaned on
>> a very different experience of collaboration and sharing.
>>
>>
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