Integrating Wikis into the Curriculum
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Using the Blackboard "Assess Wikis" Tool
Blackboard has a built in wiki grader that can make it easier to review student contributions across wikis and within date ranges. We suggest that this tool be used in conjunction with the guidelines set forth in the beginning of the wiki unit and a comprehensive rubric.
The following instructions will step you through accessing the tool and reviewing student contributions.
- Click on the Control Panel link located on the lower left side of the main course page.
- Click on the “Assess Wikis” link located under the Course Tools header. A listing of all course wikis will be displayed.
- Click on the [View Participation] button for the wiki that you want to review. A listing of all wiki participants will be displayed.
- Chick on the “Show participation for:” dropdown arrow to select a date range.
- Then click n the [View Details] button for participation details.
- Next click on the [See Change History] button to view a list of modifications to a page by the selected student.
- Then click on the [View Diff] button to see the page changes made by the student.
- Deleted items will be highlighted with a line drawn through them.
- Added items will be highlighted in yellow.
Click on the following tabs and links to learn more
- Planning & Design
- How-to Tutorials
- Resources
- Samples
Planning and Design Considerations
How-to Tutorials
Guidelines
- For Teachers New to Wikis (At the University of Southern Florida) - site provide summary of how wikis can be used in teaching and learning.
- Using Wikis as Collaborative Writing Tools (At Texas A&M) - An instructor's account of how she used wikis in her courses.
- Seven Things You Should Know About Wikis (From Educause)
- Wiki Pedagogy (by Renée Fountain, Université Laval) - author addresses some of the pedagogical issues associated with using wikis in the teaching environment.
Articles & Blogs
- Barton, Matt. "Embrace the Wiki Way." Posted May 21, 2004. http://www.mattbarton.net/tikiwiki/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=4
- Lamb, Brian. "Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not." Educause Review vol. 39., no. 5 (September/October 2004): 36-48. http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm04/erm0452.asp?bhcp=1
- Lamb, Brian. "How to Start a Wiki." Posted March 23, 2004. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wiki_Science:How_to_start_a_Wiki
- Madder, Stewart. "Using Wikis in Education." Using wiki in education blog
- Mangan, Katherine S. and Jeffrey R. Young. "Students Create Online Legal Manual for Hurricane Survivors; U. of New Orleans Students Will Take Some Courses Online." The Chronicle of Higher Education. http://chronicle.com/weekly/v52/i08/08a03102.htm
- Read, Brock. "Romantic Poetry Meets 21st-Century Technology." The Chronicle of Higher Education. 15 Jul 2005. http://chronicle.com/weekly/v51/i45/45a03501.htm
Some Courses Using Wikis
- BIOL 414/614: Eukaryotic Genetics And Molecular Biology Biology course at UMBC using a wiki as course web site. Here's an assignment asking students to research a topic in current literature and present their analysis to a scientifically informed lay audience on a wiki page. Taught by Dr. Philip Farabaugh
- Blogs and Wikis - a course on blogs and wikis in the English Dept. at Bemidji State University
- Computer Management Courses - Associate professor, Gerald Kane of Boston College uses wikis to replace textbooks in his Computers in Management and Computer Information Systems courses.
- Teaching Social Software with Social Software: A report Ulises Ali Mejias writes about a graduate course he taught at Teachers College, Columbia University, in which social software tools (blog, wiki, rss) were used to teach students how to use and critically evaluate social software.
- English 15 Rhetoric and Composition one of three required core courses in Rhetoric at Penn State University uses a wiki for students to blog about their experiences during the class, develop ideas for their writing projects, and benefit from community input. There's even a section where students can leave advice for the next group to take the class.
- Rebuilding the Seventh - Nils Gore, a professor of architecture at the University of Kansas uses this wiki to coordinate a joint project with architecture students at Tulane University (LA), to help rebuild a New Orleans community center ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. Through it, students use the wiki as a password protected place to share and edit documents.
- The Collaborative Writing Project - SUNY Geneseo. Administered by Paul Schacht, Department of English. He created this wiki in Fall 2005 to enable students in his classes to do various types of collaborative writing.
- Wikipedia school and university projects - The projects "exists to provide guidance to educators who incorporate Wikipedia writing assignments into their classes. Post questions for experienced Wikipedia volunteers at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Classroom coordination. Wikipedia:school and university projects - instructions for teachers and lecturers and Wikipedia:School and university projects - instructions for students are useful resources. There is also a syllabus boilerplate that you may want to use."
- WolfWikis - a wiki service that is available to current students, faculty, and staff at North Carolina State University.
