I think everyone was having a difficult week this week, especially the follks that started a new semester this past week at their jobs.
The cool thing about a wiki is that it allows folks to add whatever they want and collaborate in a more direct, condensed way than in person. I was thinking about group work when I was in college. We would usually all meet up at IHOP or Denny's or the library and usually end up talking about everything BUT the project for five hours. Then there would be a few ideas tossed out and someone would type up the report. and present to the class.
With a wiki there is more ideas and less everything else. The problem with that is that it does cut down on the social aspect of group work (which our topic, connectivism, emphasizes). The lack of social interaction can make the topic seem like it exists in a vacuum rather than in the real world. One of the interesting ideas of connectivism is that knowledge is not an island. If knowledge doesn't connect with other knowledge or doesn't have real world applications, it's like it doesn't exist. Like food you can't eat. Food you can't eat isn't food.
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