Tricky Wiki
The first of two collaborative assignments for the year wasn’t
what I had hoped it would be. I knew it
would be a challenge – what else can you expect from a group of people you don’t
really know, conversing only on-line to create an essay? Not only do you have to agree (or compromise)
on what you are saying but how you are going to say what you are saying. Not to mention being careful of how you say,
how you are going to say what you are saying.
It was tricky and just when things seemed to smooth themselves out it
all took a turn for the worst. Then it
was horrible. Interestingly on the day
we finished I saw a retweet from Mark Forsyth ‘sometimes it’s not what you say,
but how you say it’. Whilst the quote is
a reference to his new book The Elements
of Eloquence, how apt, is all I can say.
During this episode I was aware that I was a nightmare to be
with. At work, at home, no-one got away
lightly. I’m surprised my family didn’t
move out or at least tell me to move out.
I was thoroughly horrible. The
day after we finished I felt like myself again for the first time in about
three weeks. Overnight the frowning, short-tempered beast that had pervaded my
being dissipated like a phantom dissolving into the air. What a relief.
Unless the OU and/or universities generally have a huge change
of heart and remove these team elements from the curriculum, I will have to do
another wiki next spring. Perhaps I can
get a bed in my shed? I might need it.
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