Designing an Effective Collaborative Wiki Project
Online Teaching Practices
Collaborative learning projects are a great idea … until you try to schedule them.
You look for a time to bring students together.
- But this one has football practice.
- Those two have jobs.
- That one’s a commuter with a family.
- This one volunteers most nights.
- That one has classes every afternoon.
How can students work collaboratively if they can’t even show up in the same place at the same time?
Fortunately, technology offers some solutions, and there’s one web-based tool in particular that can help you eliminate the scheduling headaches associated with collaborative projects and make them convenient, simple and efficient.
Rhonda Ficek, Ph.D., Director of Instructional Technology Services at Minnesota State University Moorhead, demonstrates how well-suited wiki projects are for collaborative learning, and shares with you a web-based application that’s easy to learn, easy to implement, and absolutely free.
You’ll learn about:
- Elements of a successful instructional wiki project.
- Recommended wiki project types for the classroom.
- How wikis streamline and support the collaborative process.
- How to create the all-important opening page.
- Best practices for page structure.
- How wikis help develop student organizational skills for digital and other assets.
- How to monitor and troubleshoot wiki projects.
Who will benefit from this 90-minute seminar:
- Faculty (adjuncts, assistant professors, associate professors, full professors)
- Instructional Technologists
- Instructional Designers
- Instructional Media specialists

Recorded: 12/2/2009
Running Time: 90 minutes
Audio with PowerPoint
3 WAYS TO ORDER:
- Supplemental Materials
- PowerPoint Handouts
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