Group Wiki Activity

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For our Group Wiki Analysis activity, I'm going to break you up into groups and ask each group to check out 2 wikis (of your choice) in the wiki links section to the right of the screen. The wikis weren't chosen because they necessarily exhibit the best characteristics of wiki-ing, but because they represent authentic working wikis in different disciplines for different purposes. Please discuss and take notes on the following questions, since you'll be responsible for reporting what you've noticed/seen back to the whole group.




1. What kind of wiki was it? What is its purpose? Who was writing in the wiki?

2. How is the wiki being used? Is it a course management system in which the teacher is doing most of the writing? Or, are students engaged in activities on the wiki?

3. Does it look like the wiki is still under production/being used? Does it look like it was effectively designed?

4. What could you adapt from what you've seen to fit a wiki for your course/discipline? Or, if the wiki had shortcomings, how would develop something better?



If your group finishes early, check out the some of the other wikis at the bottom of the links list...Kim Brown's wiki is a part of a larger class project connected to her course blog. While the blog served as a place to gather and share information the wiki served as a online collaborative environment to actually compose their formal document in.

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I was recently visiting the state of Ohio's Web site and noticed a chart that related to state government, which we've been discussing for the last few days. (Since then, the graphic has been removed from the state Web site and added to an "elect Collier" site. This image is currently hosted there.)

For this blog entry, I'd like you to consider how this particular chart works to convey information. Think about layout, color schemes, etc. as you analyze the different parts that contribute to the impact of the whole.

Finally, is this chart more than just a means to convey information? How is it rhetorical? You'll remember from our writing classes that rhetoric is the art of persuasion.

If you click on the picture, you can get a better image of it.

Please click on the comment button below and post a short comment in response to the questions...