the sixty-sixth episode of ventriloquy launches a project i am very proud of: i have created a wiki based on my doctoral thesis.
as far as i can tell, this is somewhat of an innovation in terms of how Web 2.0 technologies are being used in academia so far.
the wiki - voxpopuli - is so named for two main reasons: first, my thesis on adolescent spatial cognition has been designed to bring out how young Singaporeans view and make sense of their local environments; second, because it is my hope that the affordances of the wiki will mean that the initial research work represented by my thesis will continue to evolve and grow beyond the confines of the original study, and it can only do so if people - such as yourselves - contribute to it :-)
as i see it, voxpopuli takes the characteristics of existing theses which are available for online-reading and download, and extends them in a very important direction - that of viewing the data, analysis and discussions as not static, but instead as something which has a life of its own.
voxpopuli is an implicit (and even, explicit) recognition that boundaries are only extended when we build upon each others' work.
i invite you to download this 4.3 MB episode, then visit voxpopuli.editme.com and take my research and run with it!
:-)
[update: turns out voxpopuli comes hot on the heels of last night's skypecast hosted by Steve Hargadon between Vicki Davis (Westwood Schools) and Adam Frey (wikispaces.com) on exploring wikis in education :-) ]
