Student skywriting

Student skywriting is scholarly skywriting done in a teaching/learning context. The idea is to deepen students' interaction with texts by not only having them read them and do essays on them, but also to do interactive quote/commentary on them. "Skyreadings" are posted on the course website and the students' assignment is to quote/comment them, and then also to quote/comment one another's comments. The instructor participates as well. See Student Skywriting Archives.

Professor Louis Holden at North Dakota State University has done something along these lines as part of a study in how dynamic teacher/learner relationships maybe explored through multithreaded/multidimensional interfaces (REF?].

References

• Harnad, Stevan. (1987) Skywriting The Atlantic/Technology May 25, 2011
• Harnad, Stevan. (1990) Scholarly Skywriting and the Prepublication Continuum of Scientific Inquiry Psychological Science 1: 342 – 343 (reprinted in Current Contents 45: 9–13, November 11, 1991).
• Harnad, Stevan. (1995) "Interactive Cognition: Exploring the Potential of Electronic Quote/Commenting", in Gorayska, B. and Mey, J.L., Eds. Cognitive Technology: In Search of a Humane Interface, Elsevier, 397–414.
• Light, Paul and Vivienne Light, Emma Nesbitt, Stevan Harnad. (2000) "Up for Debate: CMC as a support for course related discussion in a campus university setting"], in Joiner, R., Eds. Rethinking Collaborative Learning, London: Routledge.
• Harnad, Stevan. (2003/2004) Back to the Oral Tradition Through Skywriting at the Speed of Thought. 'Interdisciplines'. Retour à la tradition orale: écrire dans le ciel à la vitesse de la pensée. Dans: Salaün, Jean-Michel & Vendendorpe, Christian (dir). Le défi de la publication sur le web: hyperlectures, cybertextes et méta-éditions. Presses de l'enssib.