Proficiat Mark!
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From: Mark Guzdial [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 3:14 PM
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Subject: [pws] FYI - Swiki wins Computer & Writing Conference Design
Award
The below is the announcement from Robert Kolker, Chair of our School
of Literature, Communication, and Culture. (CoWeb is what we call
Swiki around here, so that we don't have to explain about Hawaiian
creole :-) Kudos to Je77 -- the interface they're raving about is
all his.
Also, FYI, there are several new papers on our research with Swikis
at http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/csl/Papers (including more empirical
data on learning benefits).
Mark
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>Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 09:38:39 -0400
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>From: Robert Kolker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: More Cause for Celebration!
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>This year Lissa Holloway-Attaway, on behalf of LCC's Wesley Center
>for New Media and the College of Computing's GVU Center, submitted
>CoWeb, a collaborative online writing application, to the
>McGraw-Hill Technology Design Competition. After a successful
>demonstration on May 19th at the Computers and Writing Conference in
>Muncie, Indiana, CoWeb was awarded top national honors for Teaching
>and Learning Technologies for Rhetoric and Writing in University
>Education. The award was received for the quality of CoWeb's
>technical design, educational value, and for its innovative
>pedagogical applications within model courses designed by Dr.
>Holloway-Attaway for LCC's freshmen writing curricula. Offering a
>rich electronic environment to conceptualize the rhetorics of
>hypertext and other modes of conventional and computer-mediated
>discourses, CoWeb provided students in the pilot courses with
>collaborative opportunities to explore a number of rhetorical
>reading and writing practices.
>
>Initially developed by Dr. Mark Guzdial in the College of Computing,
>CoWeb supports a variety of interdisciplinary writing activities and
>has been integrated in over 100 courses at Georgia Tech. With grant
>funding provided by the Mellon Foundation, Dr. Guzdial and Dr.
>Holloway-Attaway have been engaged in the first year of a 36 month
>study to explore the cost-effectiveness and student-learning
>benefits of CoWeb in English Composition, Math, and Computer Science
>courses at Georgia Tech. Preliminary research and assessment results
>demonstrate CoWeb's effectiveness for creating student-centered
>electronic learning environments to facilitate a wide array of
>critical and rhetorical writing practices in interdisciplinary
>education. As a dynamic complement to an already innovative
>technology-infused writing program in LCC, CoWeb provides increased
>opportunities for students and faculty to explore the possibilities
>of electronic communication in collaborative online communities.
>
>CoWeb's successful integration into GT curricula and the national
>recognition it received from the McGraw-Hill award is the result of
>a dedicated number of faculty and students who worked to develop and
>refine the application and its pedagogical uses. In CoC, graduate
>students Jochen Rick, Bolot Kerimbaev, Colleen Kehoe and Karen
>Carroll assisted Dr Guzdial in a number of technical and research
>initiatives, including interface and software design and
>development, as well as data collection/analysis. In LCC, Brandy
>Walker, Brittain Fellow, worked with Dr. Holloway-Attaway to develop
>pedagogical and assessment models for the freshmen writing curricula.
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Mark Guzdial : Georgia Tech : College of Computing : Atlanta, GA 30332-0280
Associate Professor - Learning Sciences & Technologies.
Collaborative Software Lab - http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/csl/
(404) 894-5618 : Fax (404) 894-0673 : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/Faculty/Mark.Guzdial.html
