Appendix J: Common Wiki Uses and Problems in Pedagogy
From WolfWikis
Uses
Collaboration (COL)
- Centered location (CL)
Facilitation of work (FOW)
- Analytical skills (ANA) and Synthesize Info (SI)
- Direct interaction with primary materials (DIM)
- Respond to reading (RTR)
- Ease of use (EOU)
Authorship/ownership (AUT/OWN)
- Student ethos (SE)
- Publish content (PUB)
Audience extension (AU)
- Peer-review (PR)
- Social space (SP)
- Facilitates community (FC)
Enhancing teaching and learning (ETL)
- Think creatively (TCRE)
- Think critically (TCRI)
- Improve reading (IR)
- Increase study skills (SSK)
- Learn content (LC)
- Understand technology (UT)
- Technological literacy (TL)
- Time management (TM)
- Increase self-esteem (SELF)
- Teacher as guide (TAG) http://biro.bemidjistate.edu/~morgan/wiki/wiki.php/NoteBook/VirtuesOfWiki
Knowledge Building/Reflection (KBR)
- Collaborative/critical/communal knowledge building (CKB)
- Critical knowledge reflection (CKR)
- Raises rhetoric issues (RHET)
Course management software (CMS)
Effective writing (EW)
- Improve writing (IW)
- Writing as process (WAP)
- Gets students writing online (SWO)
- Multiple drafts (MD)
- Transparency of writing (TRAN)
- Changes understanding of nature of writing (NOW)
Facilitates research (FR)
Multimodal literacy (ML)
- Linking (LINK)
Problems
Initial student interaction (ISI)
Unclear role/definition of topic (UDT)
Comments (COM)
Privacy/security (SEC/PRI)
Experience with software (EXP)
Freezing content (FC)
Track individual changes/contributions (TIC)
Easier Interface (EI)
Faculty-to-student interaction (FTSI)
More engagement w/wiki activities (WACT)
Less Wiki use (LESSW)
More capabilities (MCAP)
More Access (MACC)
Better Commenting (COMMENT)
Veracity/Truth of Content (TRUE)
IT Support (ITSUP)
Things needed for a successful wiki
Clear Topic
Understood Rhetoric
Clear assignments
Good Communication skills
NPOV (understanding that POV is a good thing)
Strong and clear pedagogy
Technical Consideration
Possible Assignments
Students post assignment for revision
Portfolio
Journal
Website
Notepad
Agenda
Teacher can post new assignments for students to submit
Teacher can create organic (naturally evolving) syllabus
- Assignment posts
- Calendar (Due Dates, Holidays, etc.)
- Grading Scale
- Required Texts
- Posting Grades (anonymously through social security number of come random class number assignment)