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Encounters at the Interface: Affordances and Constraints of a Wiki Environment for Literary Study
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, Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the Arts, Israel

EdMedia + Innovate Learning, in Denver, Colorado, USA ISBN 978-1-880094-95-2 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Waynesville, NC

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This paper examines a learning context where a wiki was developed for the study and interpretation of English literature. Since poetry generates multiple interpretations, it was considered appropriate as a learning object for collaborative, inquiry-based activity. The wiki was designed to facilitate online access to selected poems by William Blake and encouraged the participants to react to the texts and to others’ interpretations asynchronously. The wiki’s affordances for juxtaposing the poetic text and the readers’ responses to it were analyzed in terms of the interface between the specific content, the pedagogical task, and the learning process. The presentation highlights the potential contribution of wiki environments to the learning process while revealing some of their limitations. It also points to the challenges that wiki-based pedagogy poses to the educator.

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Schrire, S. (2012). Encounters at the Interface: Affordances and Constraints of a Wiki Environment for Literary Study. In T. Amiel & B. Wilson (Eds.), Proceedings of EdMedia 2012--World Conference on Educational Media and Technology (pp. 998-1007). Denver, Colorado, USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved August 9, 2024 from .

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