Published and unjammed

I was very pleased to see that my article 'The Good, the Bad and the Wiki: Evaluating student-generated content for collaborative learning' was finally published in paper format this morning (Yay! -paper ain't dead - it's just feeling a little off colour). Co-written with the help of Peter Yeomans and Dawn Wheeler (no relation - she's my Mrs), it focuses as the title indicates, on how wikis can be used to promote collaborative learning - for undergraduate trainee teachers. To be fair to the British Journal of Educational Technology, and editor Nick Rushby - who is a jolly decent bloke and a superb editor (that's enough of that - Ed) it has been available on Online Early for the past 9 months or so, about the same amount of time it takes to produce a baby, ironically. I wrote back in January 2007 on this blog moaning about the length of time it takes to get something 'out there' and published, so I welcome Online Early schemes even if the DOI (Digital Object Index) numbers confuse the hell out of a lot of people.

This is the first of a series of publications I am publishing soon on the work we have done studying the use of wikis and other open content software over the past two years down here in the University of Plymouth. Another article has just been accepted for publication in the Journal 'Learning, Media and Technology - this one will focus on using wikis to encourage better academic writing skills, and examines writing as a social practice. There are also a welter of book chapters on Web 2.0 tools coming out by yours truly (that means me) over the next 6 months, including one in the book edited by Stylianos Hatzipanagos and Steven Warburton, on Web 2.0 Ontologies which I have just been informed will be published by IGI Global in February 2009. I've been busy, see.