Week One wiki excercise

I feel this is really a facinating way of learning. It opens up a wide variety of different learning styles and also naturally produces a number of different positive affects which teachers try to produce all on their own which in a wiki can be given by other students.

I found the scaffolding worked well. From the variety of additions and varied ideas I can see that each person found a way into the learning that they were interested in.

personally I found the choice overwhelming. I specifically chose the specific De Bono hat that had not been used very much. I felt that I did have a critical view of others posts and that was reflected in my addition.

I also feel that we can be very polite in spaces on the net that we are aware of our own ideas being presented and that we really don't want to step on others toes. I can draw a couple of experiences in forums on the moodle website that have posts by a high majority praising the work of others and very few drawing attention to the fact the there are no opposing opinions on the topic.

The ability to connect a number of resources to the site is invaluable. It creates a web affect that any one can follow links to information that others have added and then add others themselves which not only allows many points of view it also puts into the forfront the kind of information that exites people. It is not compolsory for each person to add a link, and by that very nature the links that are presented are of high value to that persons point of view.

Overall I feel that the experience was positive. The open format allows many individual learning styles and open thinking