1. Wikis, Webquests and Wonder:
Using Web 2.0 Tools for Engaging
Students in Project-Based Instruction
Rachel Roderick, Jay Fogleman, and Mona Anne
Niedbala
https://bltc2014-webquestswikis.wikispaces.com/

2. Warm up
• Who?
• Why?
• What?

3. Session Overview
• New Ideas
– Rachel: Webquest
– Mona & Jay: Wikis
• A Chance to Discuss and Apply – Create
something worth sharing.
• Share & Publish – Explain your ideas to us and
the world.

4. Using Wikis to Support Project-
Based Instruction – 3 Big Ideas
1. Project-Based Instruction
2. Faculty and librarian partnership
3. Studio/gallery learning environment

5. Some Context
1. Introduction to American Public Education (EDC
102, 102H) (>300 Students since 2007 in 35
person classes, 20 person Honors seminar, or 80
person classes)
2. Three Projects
1. Academic Autobiography
2. Educational Context Report
3. Issues Around Reform Collaborative Bibliography and
Teach-In
3. Course experiences are blend of F2F, online
research and writing, and F2F Library Instruction.
4. Wiki: uriteacherknowledge.wikispaces.com.
(6 years old; over 9000 pages)

6. Project-Based Instruction
• Why: Learning requires engagement
• What:
– Focus on Learning Goals
– Just-in-Time Teaching & Scaffolds
– Collaboration
– Tools
– Authentic Products
• Challenges

7. Example: Project Timeline

8. Faculty and librarian partnership
• Instructional design
• Learning scaffolds
• Just-in-time learning

9. Faculty and librarian partnership

10. 3. Studio and Gallery Wikis

11. Studio space
• Research pages
• Project resources
• Collaborative pages
• Individual drafts
• Peer feedback &
editing

12. Gallery space
Final individual & team pages
Ed Issues – Team Page
Ed Issues – A Student’s
Research Page
Enduring collaboration (multiyear)

13. Findings
• Authentic research tasks
• Academic research practices
• Collaboration: team; peer-editing; responsibility
• Challenges of a persistent student knowledge
base

14. Questions/Comments

15. Applying New Ideas
• Work on small groups to…
– Discuss/Brainstorm ways to use wikis and/or
webquests in your own projects.
– Use an IdeaBoard to represent:
• Who is in your group (first names only)
• What learning goal or challenge are you
addressing?
• What is the project?
• How might you use/adapt ideas from this session?

16. Sharing and Publishing Our Work
• Share selected groups’ work
– Groups: Summarize your group’s work
– Audience:
• produce at least two “add-ons”
– I could adapt this idea to…
– You could also…
– How will you…?
– Facilitators:
• Record add-on ideas using on Post-Its
• Photograph IdeaBoards to publish on session wiki.

17. Thank You!
Slides, Links, and Resources on our
Session Handout
Session resources at
http://bltc2014-
webquestswikis.wikispaces.com/