Is there a space for the teacher in a WIKI?
Proceedings of the 2006 international symposium on Wikis
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This symposium explores central themes related to the design of specific wiki features to support collective cognition, and presents analyses of wiki use in authentic educational settings. Through the presentation of four different projects, the symposium will take up issues related to the significance of iterative design approaches for aligning social networking technologies with specific contexts, and how these 'tweaks' are in turn generating new activities and emergent forms of collaborative knowledge building. In particular the studies in this symposium all explore different means of representing and tracking group cognition in wikis - tags, chat rooms, social bookmarking, whiteboards, blogs, timelines, and transcripts - based on the shared understanding that fostering awareness of activity at group level can be productive for learning. Methods and findings from these studies have relevance for designing and learning with social networking technologies.