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Disappointment with revisewise so far
Having been working on revisewise for several months now, along with various other odds and ends, I am rather disappointed in the lack of people creating debates. While the vast majority of responses we get back are positive, think it is a good idea and is helpful no one seems to be using it... or while they might be using our debates they are not creating their own. As this is the main point of the project it is therefore not going too well!Possible reasons for this
1, students are being stubborn and like me do all their revision late!
2, students may well be discouraged at the work that needs to be done to put their debate online, or else think that they need to do a big long debate for it to be valid on revisewise.
So any ideas on what we can do about this?
Well not really... we are still attempting to market to student unions and lecturers so hopefully this will eventually bring results. We also don’t have any guides to writing debates on revisewise yet (one exists, and sooner or later we will have a screencast). We obviously don’t have the answers so if any of you can think of anything... or as you are reading this then tell us why you are not using revisewise then hopefully we can take any comments on board and improve things.
Comments
no sooner do I add this then we get a revisewise debate up… and another on the main site that looks like it is meant to be a revisewise debate, so a step in the right direction