Tuesday, December 09, 2003

Dannswiki?

Over the past couple days I have been feeling almost back to normal and have been making some headway on my research 'though I still have an awfully long way to go (on top of that realization I also made the last payment on my fall UM grad school tuition today...Yikes!) Anyway, you are probably wondering what dannswiki is all about. It is not part of my anatomy and has nothing to do with cancer. Wiki (or more formally WikiWikiWeb) is a tool for doing collaborative writing on the internet. WikiWiki is Hawaiian for quick. Essentially it allows visitors to a webpage to edit and make changes drectly to that page -- no webpage experience necessary -- if you can use a word processor you can write to my page. Sound pretty chaotic? Actually, it works amazingly well and I am planning to use this approach in some upcoming classroom research later this spring. Dannswiki is my wiki website and you can visit it using the link provided. It would be a great help to me if some/many/all?!? of you would visit and go 'play' in the Sandbox. You'll find out more about what that means once you get there. I put down a couple lines about human nature to get things started -- have at those and feel free to introduce other topics as well. Wiki writing is a strangely daunting and yet liberating experience. Play with it...you won't break anything! /dps

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