Reflections on WebGuide
Published 1 January 1999Open access
Gerry Stahl
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In this paper, seven of the major issues encountered while piloting WebGuide in a middle school classroom and a graduate seminar are reviewed with an eye toward suggestions for future work.
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A number of software environments have been developed as media to support collaborative knowledge building, typically featuring a Web-based threaded discussion facility. We have recently developed such a system, known as WebGuide. The distinctive feature of this system is support for structuring collaboration and knowledge construction with personal, group and comparison perspectives. While piloting WebGuide in a middle school classroom and a graduate seminar, we encountered a variety of issues related to both software design and classroom practices. Some of these issues are common to experiences with similar systems and some have to do specifically with support for perspectives. In this paper we review seven of the major issues encountered with an eye toward suggestions for future work.
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