A wiki is a collaborative tool that allows students to contribute and modify one or more pages of course related materials. Wikis are collaborative in nature and facilitate community-building within a course. Essentially, a wiki is a web page with an open-editing system.
In the traditional classroom setting, teachers provide most of the classroom information. With wikis, students can collaboratively create a great deal of that classroom information. Wikis allow students to become the authors of knowledge rather than the consumers of it, making wikis an excellent resource for inspiring students to form critical thinking techniques, to learn from their peers, and to become better contributors in group settings.
Repository for recording information - not for opinions - comments or forums
Information can be directly entered text, uploaded files, links or embedded HTML code.
Convenient Webpage Generator
All Cloud Conveniences
History : Keeps a History and one can return to it.
Collaborative Lecture Notes
Searchable
Gives different roles to users.
Wikis can be Private or Public
Wiki Nature - Trust - no deleting - adding only / correction / giving resources to justify entries. Make rules. E.g. Who is God?
However Wikis repair themselves.
Helping each other
Reverse Flow of information.
Mistakes can be corrected by students - wait for them to do so - if they don’t within a week - then there is a misconception throughout the class. - e.g.. benchmarking.
Giving and sharing assignments.
Wikis are a repository for info.
Students may take their own notes but what about a collaborative note taking effort?
Raw Notes : Individual or student pairs take notes: similarly to jotting down minutes for a meeting.
Nice Notes : Encourage other students to work on the class notes. Give them an incentive to do so by telling them that Wiki engagement and responsibility for the whole group will effect their final grade.
Elaboration Page - Allows space for students to add their own interests connected to the subject. (This could even be the final assignment or course assignments / homework.)
This is all online. Decide on who the audience should be. A chosen group/ cohort/ faculty/ public. Possibility to print at any time.
A common concern among instructors new to wikis (as with blogs!) is how to evaluate a student’s work. We suggest that before implementing a wiki project in your course, you develop a rubric and explain to students how you will be evaluating their contributions to the wiki. Take a look at some of the existing wiki rubrics, like this one or this one, and adapt it to fit your needs. Consider how (or if) you will evaluate the wiki’s:
Content and writing quality Consider if the content is interesting and engaging. Does it include images and videos or slideshows? Has it been proofread?
Use and accuracy of citations and references Are there links to reliable outside resources that document student thinking?
Appearance Is the wiki easy to navigate? Is it organized?
Collaboration among your students The wiki will provide you with clues about collaboration on the “Page History” – you’ll be able to see if the wiki has changed significantly over time as member of the course added new content or revisions to existing content.
As with other types of assignments and projects, the more clear you are with your expectations, the more likely students will be able to meet them. To this end, Dave Foord created a simple acronym to get good results with wiki projects: STOLEN.
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