Wiki or blog?

Journal

In week 2 I asked students to make a list in the class wiki of all the forms of communication they experience in a day. This produced some interesting reactions.

1) Rather than post a list, the initial entry was added in a format that resembled a blog entry.
2) Subsequently, two students posted their items as comments to the wiki page rather than editing the page itself.
3) I edited the page to present the thoughts of these three students as a list.
4) This resulted in the attached.
5) One student added a new page to the wiki and posted his list there. I only discovered this by looking at the page view option. I've resisted the temptation to move it. I'll wait a while to see if anyone pick it up.

It would appear that there is a degree of ownership and an emotional element associated with text added to a wiki. I can identify with this, as I have also had anxieties when contributing to a wiki that I didn't want to cause offence by editing others' contributions.