6. Project Challenge How do we get students to work together when they don’t even have time to be together? BB does not allow collaboration between sections. Using alternate technology allows this to happen.
7. Wiki Software Requirements Work in all browsers Allows links in and out of the wiki WYSIWYG Supports HTML Media insertion (You Tube, other tools) Tables RSS feeds
8. PbWiki PbWiki was one of 25-30 wikis to chooose It is rated very highly with educators Provided usernames/ passwords for 100 students. Did not need an email account. Private vs. public
9. Wiki concerns Someone may post inappropriate content Monitor all website postings via RSS Someone can delete another students work inadvertently There is a history of all work and you can go back to a previous edition of the work that was created
11. Educate users First Provide tutorial/help pages/videos/orientation: http://www.screencast.com/users/drcercone/folders/Jing/media/a069ee4c-b7f0-427c-9140-1662c64570d0 Practice page with introductory activities Allow creativity Students are encouraged to comment across topics Create a culture of trust
12. Guidelines Clear expectations posted on the wiki/BB Vista Clear grading criteria with rubric posted Timeline recommendations/Final Date Communication ideas shared Instructor discussed the project in class
16. Communication Comments allowed on every wiki page. Picture following slide. Unless you subscribe via RSS, you do not know a comment was made. This was not like a discussion board The problem: How to get my 2 classes to collaborate together???????
18. Inter-class collaboration Several methods were attempted: Collected all emails and made a list. I then emailed the entire class so they had the email listings. Sharing also was encouraged in class. Tried Google Groups for discussions but students had to enroll in it and no one did Tried embedding a Discussion board http://test.quicktopic.com/about.html Students did not use it once. Announcements were done many times. I feel that this board was too “busy” and looked complicated
21. Student use issues The F2F class was more active and did more on the wiki, earlier. Several students formed groups easily. The hybrid class was more resistant and complained more about doing a project. Making sure that they referenced and cited all of their work. Some of them copied material.
22. Problems with PbWiki Not a typical web page layout Right sided navigation with several different boxes that were not similar to other web sites Unable to get a site map of links Instructor added the side bar and had to keep adding links to the projects or else no one would know where to go- I finally fixed it when the project was done
25. Since the wiki is so “open” I used the file menus to find the files
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27. Student Survey was completed at end “I thought it was interesting and it challenges you to think about certain topics and lets you discuss topics with other classmates” “I had a lot of fun working with others for the project. It was fun working with the teacher too.” “ I thought it was a great way to share information” The tutorials helped me understand what to do “Could be a useful tool to students for taking and sharing notes” “ I thought it was a great project, very interactive”
28. Student Survey Results These are all that were negative: Interesting but occasionally distracting from the class material The site was confusing as there was no map to the pages Right navigation and panels were confusing The sidebar was the only thing I found disorganized
33. Plans Action Research Continue to want collaboration between groups and classes Overall Goal to have students learn in an interactive method and share with other students. Possible: Google Sites and Google Groups for discussion. Instructor set up and led. Possible Wikispaces or Zoho.
34. Action Research Action research is a form of applied research whose primary purpose is the improvement of something in which the researcher is personally involved. Action research allows researchers to test ideas in practice in order to improve social conditions and increase knowledge.
35. Other Sites to consider Ning: http://learn-online.ning.com/ Gou.pshttp://grou.ps/hcc_science/home Zohohttp://www.zoho.com Wikispaceshttp://www.wikispaces.com/
36. Websites used Jing http://www.jingproject.com/ YouTube http://www.youtube.com/ Authorstreamhttp://www.authorstream.com/MyUploaded-Presentations/All Picasso http://picasaweb.google.com/home Diigohttp://www.diigo.com/user/drcercone Xoho and Google Forms: http://www.zoho.com/ Flickrhttp://www.flickr.com/ Animotohttp://animoto.com/ Voicethreadhttp://voicethread.com/#home GoogleSites: http://sites.google.com/site/sciencehcc/
Editor's Notes
Welcome, introductions
The project included 2 classes……
ASK:How many know what a wiki is?How many have used one?Wikipedia!So- let’s go over the type of tool that was used. As I indicate it is a Web 2.0 tools that allows collaboration by authorized users. The owner can control single page access. It can be private or public. It can allow you to be a writer or just able to view the page. This was highly controlled by me.
The student can actually leave their own imprint on the course if this is used in the futureWriting for a real audience can be very motivating which may increase the students desire to write better
So, I actually had control over the process. I was able to set page configurations and only allow public viewing of those pages I felt able to be viewed publicly. I gave students write access so they could edit and see the pages. These pages were not public. Due to the reverse chronological order it is often difficult to find informationWikis tend to expand and may become similar to a permanent knowledge baseBlog- go over the notes and explain why a blog was not used but is appropriate for many situations.
BB is a great tool and I use it all the time but I wanted to get classes together. The tool has the potential- but did it work? I will let you know! Let’s talk about them first and then I will present my findings. Brandon will follow
What you see is what you get- looks like a word processorSome of the wikis have different forms of how to input text and you need to know this “markup language” to use it. The easiest to use are the wiki with the wysiwygMany wikis use a simplified hypertext markup- they strip HTML to simplest formSome wikis allow anyone to edit- there are no controls, permissions, passwordsSome wikis do not allow spaces between words in the title of the pageMany wikis allow anonymous postingAuthorship and ownership is altered in many wikis as They are organized by context or other categories and concepts that emerge.As you can see, there are many wikis and what they can and can not do. I reviewed wikis all summer in preparation of this course.
Same biology class,Same material,Same sequence,Same labsObjectives and outcomes are the sameF2F class has access to most of the mateial that
There are also problems- I have yet to find the “perfect” solution but here are a few that we may see.
Practice makes perfect- and here it was very important to allow practice. Students need to get comfortable so there must be time in class to practice as well as a practice pageI added how to videos and there was a help section from the wikiIn the end I helped students posting powerpoints and other more complex activities. My goals were to just get them on, post up to 500 words on a topic either of their own choosing or one that I suggestedGive topics but allow them to choose how they want to do themAllow to work in groups or not
Clear guidelines were in place and discussed in class as well as online and on the wiki.
Comments are not the same as a discussion thread. It is just a block of text under the page. For me, they were useful as the students would often ask me questions about the wiki project.
Here is a graphic from the wiki and it shows how comments could be added at the end of the wiki page. Here there was active communication between me and the student doing that page. They are not threaded nor like a discussion board. Unless you have RSS enabled, no one knows that these comments are there.
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