User:Donnaquayote/Sandbox

Welcome to my Sandbox

I just finished reviewing the Session 2 syllabus - see brief outline

Summary of Ward Cunningham Interview video

Ward was interested in how ideas move around communities; wikis were a way to enable seeds of thoughts to grow and evolve
Initial ‘gift’ economy concept of anonymous editing to erase negatives (e.g. spelling edits) and highlight positives (e.g. idea dev)
Wikis enable collaborative knowledge-building; which is good when you want more minds to solve problems and/or to share ideas
Ward sees wiki collaboration as playing to each other’s strengths; which is especially useful when project outcomes are open-ended
He says we can learn enough about each other in wiki work to develop trust relationships beyond familiar 'in-groups' to
- build intercultural communication across many languages
- recognize contributions across diverse cultural contexts, including 'other' as well as dominant culture views, and so
- contribute to world peace through a process of open, respectful dialogue

Initially didn’t build in open licensing; but later Jimmy Wales built it into Wikipedia

Images for your enjoyment to show use of VisualEditor and wikitext media tools: Besides the fact that I like coyotes, these images make me think about the value of both independent exploration and cooperative work in learning.