New Ways of Teaching: Mark Blaine

How a teacher, a techie, and a wiki made history at the UO School of Journalism

In the parlance of wikis, “sticky” is a good thing. It means you’ve created something that people want to return to again and again.

This summer, Mark Blaine’s experimental introduction of wikis into his graduate reporting and information strategies class definitely met the sticky criterion. It’s an experiment he plans to repeat, and wikis are now an integral part of his curriculum plan.

Wikis are relatively new to the e-communications scene, but as the populist Internet revolution continues they are becoming more ubiquitous. Essentially, a wiki is a collaborative web space, a site where any number of people may contribute and/or edit content without having to know anything about HTML, php, or other web page-creating code. All they need is typing ability and a web browser.

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