Twitter: #MARC11_SESS48 Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/amsdiane This special "Experience IT" session is designed to offer a hands-on, highly interactive introduction to an emerging tool and explore its potential impact for professional development and the classroom. Please bring a laptop to the session to ensure you can engage with the presenter. Seating will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Wikis allow multiple users to edit the same web page while tracking individual contributions. Their inherent simplicity gives users direct access to their content, which is crucial in group editing or other collaborative activities. But how can you use wikis to effectively provide collaborative opportunities in the classroom and elsewhere on campus? How do wikis compare with other collaboration applications? This session will take a look at the use of wikis in online courses and discuss other effective uses.

3. Designing the Course Dr. Karen Swenson

9. Student Survey Data Amber D. Evans

10. Demographics

11. Demographics

12. Prior to this course how often did you contribute content to Wikis (Wikipedia, course wiki, etc.) for school, work, or recreation?

13. What is your opinion about the following statement: I get more actively involved in courses that use information technology?

14. What is your opinion about the following statement: The use of IT in my courses improves my learning.

15. What is your opinion about the following statement: IT makes doing my course activities more convenient?

16. Which of the following best describes you?

17. I learn best through: (choose all that apply)

18. I like to learn through contributing to websites, blogs, wikis, etc.

19. What are Wikis? Amber D. Evans

26. The SciFi Wiki Dr. Karen Swenson “ Student writing has meaning, power, and significance in this course. Students are shaping both their own words and the words of others in order to create a web of interconnected writings.”

29. Wiki Pages – Creating Infrastructure

30. Wiki Pages – Hypertext Essays, Images, Words

31. Wiki Pages – History of Collaboration

32. Wiki Development The success of this course wiki led to the creation of a community wiki – the Virginia Tech Speculative Fiction wiki, around which is growing a community of practice beyond the boundaries of the semester. “ Play Well and Prosper”