Dear students,
you will be assigned to tasks for today:
- Write posts on your blog about your experience with working with wikis. Some already wrote about it, but many didn’t write much so far. Please consider the following aspects:
- what is your personal experience in collaborating with wikis?
- how would you use wikis for language teaching
- Subscribe to the class blogs in Google Reader
- go to google reader and sign up (if you haven’t got a google account, you have to create one)
- subscribe to the class blogs (you can find them here on the seminar blog)
- Read the blogs in your reader and write comments on at least 4 blogs
Dear fellow students,
please make sure that you “approve comments” made by others on your blogs. Because once someone leaves a comment, this comment is “awaiting moderation” before it finally appears on our blogs. This means, the blog’s owner has to log in into his/her (wordblog)-account, go to “Comments”, tick the boxes of the comments one wants to approve and finally click on the “approve” button. Otherwise the comments will be held captive and it says “Your comment is awaiting moderation” forever. And we don’t want Mr Raith to think we didn’t do your homework, do we?
Okay, what I wrote is only partially true. You can change settings on discussions by going to your blog, click on “Settings”, then “Discussion”, then look at “Before a comment appears”. By default, every FIRST comment of a visitor has to be approved by you, all following comments by that same visitor are approved automatically. If you tick the “Comment author must fill out name and e-mail”-box only, every wordpress member can comment without your approval. Hope this helps.
I already posted about wikis a long time ago (May 6) on my blog. I thought this would be the task. And only the persons who did not blog already had to write a post. I name all the posts concerning this course “Web 2.0″ and then the number of the post. So, this is the link to my post about wikis: http://neeri.de/studium-ph-heidelberg/web-20-seminar-2/
If this is not appropriate, please let me know!
All the best,
Ireen Harlaß