JOINING THE COLLABORATIVE KNOWLEDGE-BUILDING SPACE OF WIKIS

Scaffolding participation in increasingly public spheres

Scaffolding participation across activities

Position Paper:Wikipedia in the classroom

Reading the Moby-Dick article

Learning the norms

Following the talk

Tracking the history

Analyzing information

Checking facts Judging credibility Reading & comparing information from other sources

Looking for gaps Probing the information for what it doesn’t say Conducting research (e.g., between what years did

Melville write the book?)Evaluating validity of their knowledge (e.g.,

Wrath of Khan as an appropriation) Considering the value of potential contributions to the

Moby-Dick community

Joining the community

Using the tools

Adding information

Noted that Moby-Dick was selected as the state book for MA

Added Wrath of Khan as an example of appropriating themes of Moby-Dick

Added Moby Dick: Then and Now as an example of a contemporary remix