I started a little collaborative writing activity the other day. Learning so far:
- It might not be the best way to create an ‘easy’ commenting, collaborative feeling
- Comments from my mum included ‘not everyone is going to want to do some creative writing’
- I only have a little network of people so it’s probably not going to get legs
What are the best ultra-simple ways that everyone regardless of experience can participate in a purposeful collaboration? Eg commenting on a movie
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Just let it emerge – like this:
http://flickr.com/photos/97643330@N00/sets/72157602214190156/
My wife Mandy doesn’t really care for social networking or online collaboration but she does like to upload images to flickr and engage in discussion there:
http://flickr.com/photos/97643330@N00/2301354493/in/set-72157602214190156/
Fang – Mike Seyfang
That’s really cool. I guess it’s a matter of slowing down. I think I still struggle to get out of the – it has to be completed quickly and fully – mindset. Not really the way web2.0 works.
I think it has a lot of potential with students – let them work in pairs or groups and then that gets over the problem of some not bing confident writers.
Another issue I can see, what if student a continues the story but then student b also continues it before you have had a chance to moderate the previous comment – so that way you will have 2 divergent strands – maybe it is an opportunity not a problem.
This seems like a good application for a wiki. You could let contributors go back and update an earlier entry.
There is also a possibility for links to the next page based on a choice – did she go through the door? Yes – go to page 34. No – go to page 35.
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