User talk:Profe Kee

useful page
This page might be useful to you: School and university projects. --JWSchmidt 14:39, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

"introductory sociology or my lower division class on communities" <-- Here at Wikiversity we are very interested in the problem of how to use wiki technology to support online communities of learners. Personally, I like the idea of students who are learning through their involvement in on-going research projects. In one sense, all of Wikiversity is a sociology research project. We have projects such as Learning to learn a wiki way, but I know that in my own case, as a biologist, I know nothing about how to conduct sociology research projects. I think it would be a great benefit for Wikiversity to have the participation of someone who has experience in the field of sociology.

"advice on how to get started" <-- I hope you found School:Sociology. At Wikiversity, a "School:" page is a content development project, a collaborative effort to create, organize and develop learning resources for a particular subject area. If you have a particular topic area within sociology that you are interested in, then be sure that Wikiversity has a page specifically for that more narrow topic area. Some teachers seem to assign their students specific wiki editing tasks, but the true nature of wiki is to let people work on editing wiki pages that are of personal interest to them. You have to decide on an approach that you are comfortable with.

"projects that are limited to my students or groups of students" <-- this is reasonable. Feel free to mark Wikiversity pages that you create as being for a limited group of editors. See Page protection templates.

"the wiki network seems a little overwhelming" <-- it does lead to a whole new way of thinking about how to organize information and new ways of collaborating with people. The technology is new and ever-changing....we are inventing everything as we go along. One trick I use is to take notes...if I find a useful page I make a link to that page from my user page. Wikiversity is very new and not very user-friendly...this is the "wild west"! There should be no self-deception about the fact that investing one's time here involves working at the bleeding edge of online education. Feel free to ask questions as they arise and good luck! --JWSchmidt 16:16, 7 February 2007 (UTC)