Name
Experience collaboration in a wiki
Topic
Teacher education
Learning time
1 hour and 30 minutes
Designed time
1 hour and 30 minutes
Size of class
30
Description
This activity is based on a learning design used by Tim Neumann at the IOE to introduce trainee teachers to using wikis and other learning technologies. This design can be adapted for your own purposes by changing the initial question to one that is appropriate to your discipline or topic.
Aims
The session aims to give trainee teacher the experience of taking part in the creation of collaborative resources; The session aims to encourage trainee teachers to apply this experience to develop appropriate learning designs for their own teaching.
Outcomes
Find out/discover, Reflect
Editor
EileenKennedy
Derived from
Using wikis for teaching and learning by Administrator
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Create a shared resource of learning technologies for education
30 minutes)
  • Discuss
    10
    2
    0
    Drawing on your own experiences, discuss in pairs the ways that ICT tools can be used in teaching and learning (tools could include software, website, social media).
  • Produce
    20
    1
    1
    Choose a tool; Go to the wiki and add a new page, then ◦ enter your selected tool as the title and write a short(!) statement that describes your selected tool. • Save your page, and wait for your classmates to complete the task. 

Notes:
The teacher will have previously created a wiki for this activity using a tool such as PBworks or Wikispaces.
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Provide feedback by commenting on others' contributions
40 minutes)
  • Discuss
    10
    30
    0
    From the list of pages ◦ select a tool that you have used or plan to use, ◦ read its description, and ◦ use the commenting function to leave a comment on the page, indicating how you used or might use the tool.
  • Collaborate
    10
    2
    0
    If you feel you can add to the description of any tool, click the Edit button to the right of the page title and edit the description.
  • Collaborate
    20
    50
    0
    Categorise the various pages using tags to create a folksonomy: Go to one of the wiki pages and edit the page tags • Enter a word that you think categorises the contribution to add a tag to the page • Look at the tag cloud that has been created to see which tags have been used
Notes:
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Embedding the use of online tools in teaching and learning
20 minutes)
  • Discuss
    20
    30
    0
    Reflecting on your experience of taking part in the activity, discuss the ways that you could use ideas from the session in your own teaching.
Notes:
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