Sep 9, 2008

PBWiki page news for students

OK! We've now started our PBwiki site and collaboration! Congratulations!
But before, I had to write and post on the Front Page a Code of Conduct for those students interested in writers access and joining this teaching project. The thing is that we are all do it for the first time, and some of the students like to cheat a teacher or practice plagiarism, illegal copying both "on-line"and"off-line". Bad habits are difficult to overcome!
So trying to avoid possible abuse and in reply to some honest students worries, I did it - see how they will try to follow the rules...And how it works. Hope it will. Trying to make corrections on-the-go.
Anyway, this Internet site is of great help in paperwork and emailed attachments reducing, time saving and it's great for learning and teaching!
Unfortunately, PB wiki has limited free size of the site and it's impossible to work offline. I will try to compensate it by our students' writings activities transfer to other great option - Google docs!
When you manage about 100 students, writing min.10-15 A4 texts each a semester - it make sense to store it with Google docs, rather than to open several PB wikis... It's also my first try - a bit early to make conclusions... I'll keep you posted on the progress...