MacDonald Wiki What? Creating Collaborative Web Sites the Easy Way

24/F 3:30 PM Hassler

Type_Presentation: 90 Minute Concurrent session

PresentationTitle: Wiki What? Creating Collaborative Web Sites the Easy WayLearn how the use of wikis can enhance your day to day accomplishments. See how two CRLA SIGs are using wikis and how wikis could be used with hybrid classes and tutor training workshops. Create a CRLA08 conference wiki live and see how easy it is to build webpages

ProgramStrand_Primary: Technology and Distance Learning

ProgramStrand_Secondary: None

Presentation_description:

Learn how the use of wikis can enhance your day to day accomplishments. See how two CRLA SIGs are using wikis and how wikis could be used with hybrid classes and tutor training workshops. Create a CRLA08 conference wiki live and see how easy it is to build webpages

Session_summary:

With the advent of Web 2.0 tools, such as wikis, comes an emerging philosophy. The new thrust is to create interactivity, collaboration, and customization in the use of the Web. Colleges are still exploring the multiple uses of these tools. One Boston College professor uses a wiki for his classroom textbook as well as building a test bank of questions that the students submit.

This presentation will set the framework for the discussion of wikis and web 2.0 tools in the context of college learning. The presentation will combine both theory and practice in a creative demonstration of building a wiki, which can be used throughout the conference and beyond.

Learning Objectives

1. Participants will learn about wikis as a Web 2.O tool.

2. Participants engage in a discussion of Web 2.0 philosophy of pedagogy and function of these new tools.

3. Participants will learn about current CRLAs wikis and how to access them.

4. Participants will collaborate in the creation of a CRLA08 conference wiki.

Content Outline

I. Define wikis /Web 2.0 tool with examples - not just a tool, but a philosophy.

II. Show CRLA use of wikis: Online Teaching and Learning, Learning Center Management SIG, TIDE presentations

III.Discuss wiki possibilities in hybrid classes, tutor training workshops, and presentations

IV. Create a CRLA08 conference wiki

Handouts and media: The creation of the wiki will be live on the internet demonstrating creating web pages dynamically online. Handouts will include list of resources and CRLAs wikis.

Wiki becomes textbook in Boston College classroom

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyId=16&articleId=9030802&intsrc=hm_topic

Wesley Fryer

Teach Digital: Curriculum by Wes Fryer

http://teachdigital.pbwiki.com/

PresenterBio:

The presenter has been teaching online since 1992 BW (before the web) and developed the first in the nation online study skills class in 1995. She co-authored Tech Talk for over 10 years. Her first wiki was developed for a presentation at the University of Melbourne, Australia.