I just got an idea from something a co-worker said. I am now interested in starting up a blog for note taking during class. That is, using the internet during class to outline the notes from a lecture, so on and so forth. The idea being that everyone in the class will have access to the blog, not as admin, but with the ability to comment and ask questions, creating a community of students aggregating knowledge. Multiple responsible students will be given admin powers, and they can post their notes from their different class. Given that the entries might end up as very miscellaneous, tags will be employed, including course number, section, topic covered, date, et cetera. The more interest generated, the more useful the community becomes to itself. Anyone else have any other ideas and thoughts about this?
November 9, 2007 at 9:31 am
I did something similar to that in my “Age of Dinosaurs” class. I uploaded a review doc for our final and invited everyone who gave me their gmail addresses to answer the review questions. I posted the link to the document on the discussion board on WebCT so everyone had access to it, whether they contributed or not. It ended up being a very good review. Some people, however, weren’t as constructive and would delete other contributors’ answers and write their own, which were wrong.
But yea, what you’re talking about is a great idea. I’d go for that.