Hi girls! I=m really sorry that I didn't write this post sooner but 1st I got wrong with the deadlines and 2nd I had some problems in writing down my Ple because in the previous lesson I was absent (health problems). As I have already said I had some difficulties while I was thinking at my PLE, first because I didn't really understand what I had to write and second because when I made up my mind I found that there were too many things that could be written! The general knowledge we acquired during our life is huge and it depends on thousands of things that are not only linked with what we have studied but also with our family, the schools we attend and the people we meet. I learnt it while I was adding information to the page called Informal Learning in EduTech Wiki. Before writing this page I didn't know that there was also an informal way of learning things, but this is what we have done duriong all this course!
Our knowledge is like a plant, we have to take care of it and nourish it day after day.
I divided my mindmap in FORMAL and INFORMAL. In the first part I dealt with school, university, and private courses I took during my life and the Informal part gave me problems because I didn't know what to write in this area. Then I thought at what helped me outside the "academic world"during this years and I filled the schema.
What is important to say is that culture and knowledge are privileges no matter the way we learn them!
sabato 19 maggio 2007
lunedì 7 maggio 2007
Wikipedia
This second part of the semester during Prof Sarah's English lessons we concentrated particularly on blogs. Nevertheless, once we had to fulfil a page on Edu Tech Wiki. This task reminded me the first part of the semester when we worked only on wiki pages. I had an hard time during the first semester because I didn't really know how a wiki worked but I lukily knew the HTML computer language that helped me to write in our wiki site.
A couple of weeks ago I had to face Wikipedia again. I had to add new information to a stub page about Informal Learning and I found it easier because I knew how it worked.
I think that it is completely different when you have to add information to a public site instead of to our Tulane wiki site because you feel more responsible. You are writing something that is going to be read by thousands of people and you cannot get wrong.
Talking about the difference between writing on a wiki page and on a blog, I think that writing on a blog is less academic and also more amusing because you feel free to write whatever you want in a colloquial English, whereas when you are writing on the Wiki you are not asked to give your personal opinion and you have to quote other people's thoughts, findings or researches.
Eventually, I do not mean that blogs are better than wiki pages. I'm only trying to point out that they are different and that it's important to know how they both work.
A couple of weeks ago I had to face Wikipedia again. I had to add new information to a stub page about Informal Learning and I found it easier because I knew how it worked.
I think that it is completely different when you have to add information to a public site instead of to our Tulane wiki site because you feel more responsible. You are writing something that is going to be read by thousands of people and you cannot get wrong.
Talking about the difference between writing on a wiki page and on a blog, I think that writing on a blog is less academic and also more amusing because you feel free to write whatever you want in a colloquial English, whereas when you are writing on the Wiki you are not asked to give your personal opinion and you have to quote other people's thoughts, findings or researches.
Eventually, I do not mean that blogs are better than wiki pages. I'm only trying to point out that they are different and that it's important to know how they both work.
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