> > I haven't yet come across any > materials that really get into teaching people to collaboratively > create materials... Maybe this is an OER that is well overdue... upon > a review of the recently published OER handbook (http:// > www.wikieducator.org/OER_Handbook/educator) there isn't a lot of > materials on encouraging collaboration... > > > In "Here comes everybody", a wonderful book overall, Shirky talks about levels of interaction, listing sharing, conversation, collaboration and collective action. Unfortunately, all his examples of collective action are protests :-) I think social software can elevate simple sharing into something bigger, better and more meaningful.
One easy collaboration task is creating a collection. I've used the task many times in different settings, from international conferences to algebra playgroups for five year olds. Here is the latest online collection example: collecting math morphemes into an "English language extender" called MathLexicon <http://www.naturalmath.com/mathlexicon/index.php>. It's basically a dictionary ran with a couple of game mechanics. Maybe we can have a "lesson creation" party where we can collect some lesson ideas, collectively ;-) Everybody can contribute from the point of view of his or her discipline. We can build a whole lesson this way, which will, surely, be bigger than the sum of our individually contributed parts. -- Cheers, MariaD I write, 'In the beginning was the Deed!' - Goethe, Faust naturalmath.com: a sketch of a social math site groups.google.com/group/naturalmath: a mailing list about math maker activities --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
