Steve:  This is fascinating.  I'm sure you were there but this caused me to think in a different way about seeing your students as collaborators - intelligence officers - in the business of creating the best learning communities possible.  An entire class could function on a blog and wiki with several central links to get things started.  All this positioned in a real world problem with real people in real settings.  Fascinating stuff.  Love to try it with my seniors who are student teaching and who have to implement the strongest collaborative work between and among their students as possible (to advance the leanring of all kids), often in an environment where teachers say it can't be done for 1001 reasons.  Ch.


On Dec 9, 2005, at 1:35 PM, Steve Cavrak wrote:

Wikis (and Blogs) are Not Just For Breakfast Anymore:

“The Wiki and the Blog: Toward a Complex Adaptive Intelligence Community”

D. CALVIN ANDRUS (Central Intelligence Agency) [CIA]
[Studies in Intelligence, September 2005] / Link to full-text available at

[ http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=755904 ]

found at http://theoretical-librarian.blogspot.com/

Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.


                        Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed


Charlie Rathbone, PhD.

537 Waterman

Department of Education

CESS:UVM

Burlington, VT  05401

http://www.uvm.edu/~crathbon