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When Wikipedia Fought Back
Will Mari
In this short essay, the author explains what went wrong when he asked his students to tackle an ill-conceived project—an in-class Wikipedia edit—and what he’d do differently next time.
Teaching Fails
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The Trouble with Tags: The Challenges of Collaborative Metadata and Participatory Culture in Class Blogs
Erica Richardson
This piece describes how I tried to get students in an introductory world literature survey course to link similar ideas and themes in their blog posts by asking them to create tags. I envisioned that these tags and the corresponding connections made would form an evolving archive of literary themes and cultural issues. However, the resulting tags were overly specific to each student’s individual blog post, which obscured connections rather than forming them. Ultimately this piece illustrates the challenges and potential of tags as a form of collaborative metadata that frames and develops student understanding of literary criticism.
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Gamification Fails: Negotiating Points, Badges, Levels, and Game Play in the Basic Writing Classroom
Michael J. Cripps
A composition and rhetoric professor finds that gamification does not readily enhance motivation and learning.
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Process Over Product: Allowing Student Researchers to Think for Themselves
July 3rd, 2017
Lisa Beckelhimer
An English Composition professor learns that it takes more than screencasting software for her students to truly learn their research strengths and weaknesses. Read more… Process Over Product: Allowing Student Researchers to Think for Themselves
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A Professor Goes Overboard with Omeka and DH Box
March 13th, 2017
Jeffrey Allred
An American Literature professor finds students needed more guidance and purpose when using Omeka to create and collaborate on image exhibits. Read more… A Professor Goes Overboard with Omeka and DH Box
