Appendix I: Wikis in Education

Wikis Being Used in Education

Educational – Generic

This is a wiki developed for the above-named course in the Ph.D. program in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media at NC State University. It is designed to provide a resource within the course, across multiple sections of the course over time, and across the program. CRD 704 students are expected to contribute to the wiki, based on their research projects, but others may contribute as they wish. The wiki focuses on the relationship between technology and pedagogy specifically as related to the teaching of communication (writing, public speaking, etc.) in all higher-education disciplines.

This book is a deep extension of the focus and content on my blog, Using Wiki in Education It contains 10 case studies written by teachers that describe how they're using the wiki to transform courses and engage today's students in a range of environments including high school, small college, major research university, online/distance learning and research lab.

The goal of this wiki project is to provide a repository for information related to social media.

Welcome . . . Teaching Wiki aspires to be a community for college-level faculty, particularly faculty teaching rhetoric and composition. However, as we invoke the wiki way here, we invite all college faculty and instructors to be wikiteachers with us. Feel free to use this site to reflect on teaching practices, cite resources and provide lesson plans.

Participants in the Summer 2005 first-term section of Technical Writing and Editing at Penn State are using this Wiki to facilitate collaboration on world-wide web writing and design projects, to post news and information about design, and to experiment with their own evolving conceptions of design.