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| Name | PBwiki Address | How have you used your Classroom Wiki? What was the result?
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Janet Gleason |
"I think the product is terrific, really easy. I actually had a teacher walk into the training who had already created his pbwiki before any training. (And he'd linkedit off his podcasting blog...) Probably the first teacher to use it from the training will be the chair of the English Department - she's going to create one for her Department members." |
jgleason@cvcsd.stier.org |
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Jeff Pilon |
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"I ALWAYS have my PBWiki open whenever I am on the net, so I can easily paste in linked pages and articles from magazines, newspapers, publications and other websites into different categories in my Wiki. I have a large article archive that I am constantly revisiting. The nice thing is anyone can use it, they don't have to be computer saavy." |
Jeff.Pilon@flagstar.com |
| JL Ang |
I've set up wikis to allow my students to post questions on physics topics they are preparing for the Cambridge O level exams. This will form a FAQ repository of answers to help all students with their revision. Also set up are wikis for me to post physics revision resources by topic and permanent FAQs (posted online or asked inthe classroom). |
angjl07@gmail.com | |
| Gerry Whelan, MD | www.medteam.pbwiki.com |
Using the wiki to develop a comprehensive set of resources to help newly arriving doctors from other countries to learn about the Interdisciplinary Health Care Teams commonly found in American hospitals including the general concept but also who all the people are (nurses, PTs, social workers, etc.) and what they do. The wiki is being used by people all around the country and really facilitates long distane collaboration. |
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| Lisa Gordis | http://professorgordis.pbwiki.com | I've used a variety of wikis in the classroom. My latest addition is a simple wiki to allow students to sign up for office hours. It includes a 30 boxes calendar with deadlines relevant to students in my courses and to my advisees. I couldn't do this in any of the university systems, as they require separate access for students in each course and for advisees. | |
| Jim West | http://idt516faq.pbwiki.com/ | I set up a Frequently Asked Questions page regarding my online class on Internet Resources, then asked my graduate students to both ask and answer the questions. Believe it or not, the FAQ started as a blank page. Students provided all the questions, answers, and organization/classification themselves. | ja-west2@wiu.edu |
| Andrew Hill | Here in the UK lots of staff development sessions in what we call Further Education Colleges are using a webtools site that I developed a year or so back. Rather than just having a 'catalogue' I used a pbwiki to provide a way for practitioners to comment on how they found a particular application and, hopefully, in time, provide examples of good practice. | ahill@dunstable.ac.uk | |
| Andrew Hill |
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Am I allowed two goes here?! Since 1998 I have been sharing notes and things on-line with staff and students but the simplicity of doing so with pbwiki has made the job so much more fun than it used to be, and people can feedback and add their own pages. What particularly impressed, well amazed me actually, was how I could copy and paste complete chunks of web pages straight in to pbwiki and, with a bit of tweaking, they were ready to go! There's now a studyzone2 which is about to be launched for distance learning tutors for canine and feline behaviour degree modules. Some of these individuals are well known tv personalities in the UK, with superb pet behaviour knowledge but little by way of IT skill! So pbwiki was my first choice for such a public challenge! OK, I'll shut up now. Just love the application and greatly appreciative of the free, no-ads, availability. | andrewx.com@gmail.com |
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Sherron Burns |
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Our site was started as a way to share information about Arts Ed projects in the division and as a place to highlight resources and PD. However, the best project for us was when I set up the wiki as an online collaboration between teachers and guest artists. They live long distances apart and would not be able to meet until the day of the activity and so the wiki allowed them to plan together and to build a relationship prior to the class visit. It also gave us a way to exhibit the work and journal the process. I'm using it as the basis for some Action Research in my graduate studies as well. People were hesitant about new technology, but were pleasantly surprised to find it so easy to edit. Once they understood the purpose they bought into using it and ejoyed it.
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sherron.burns@lskysd.ca |
| Jenna Carpenter | http://calculuswithdrc.pbwiki.com | I teach college-level mathematics and we are now using a number of different online resources - course management software, online homework, online tutoring, etc. Last term my students complained that they had trouble keeping up with all of it - what was due where and when. I tried writing daily updates on the whiteboard at the beginning of class last term. This term I decided to put all of that info on our class wiki. It's great because students can log on anytime to check all of their online assignments, plus I have put links to all of the sites, so they don't have to remember the urls for everything! I also do podcasts for the class, so there is a link to our blog, where the podcasts are posted, as well. |
jenna@coes.latech.edu
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| Melinda Gregor |
http://english400atshhs.pbwiki.com
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I teach AP English Literature, college-prep 11th grade English, and college-prep 10th grade English. I LOVE PBWIKI!!!! This tool has everything you need to enhance the classroom discussion as well as extend that discussion beyond to students' homes. I love it for PBL. The link takes you to my juniors. On the home page, please scroll to the bottom to see the movemaking project they have recently completed. They are now using their pbwiki as we collaborate on color connotations in The Great Gatsby. I also use their home pages to communicate changes in HW, to answer questions, and to survey what they like/learn/etc. |
gregorm@sh.noacsc.org |
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Dan Morris
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http://digitalleadership.pbwiki.com/
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I teach a class called Leadership in the Digital Age for the administrator program at the University of Denver and have used this wiki to introduce current and future school administrators to numerous Web 2.0 applications. I use the wiki to structure our work around the National Education Technology Standards for Administrators and Teachers (NETS-A, NETS-T) and participants in the class are usually getting their first "hands-on" experience with using and contributing to a wiki. I have also used this wiki to support numerous staff development workshops I do with educators in the US and Australia. I am now beginning to create wikis as "support" sites for presentations and workshops I am doing for educators and to support work related to creating new graduation standards in Colorado. Here are a couple examples. |
dan@cmconsulting.net |
| John Martin | http://edventures.pbwiki.com/CE5560-Elements+of+the+Web |
One of my biggest frustrations with many Learning Management Systems (LMS) such as Blackboard is the proprietary and restrictive nature of the environment. In my work with our College of Graduate Studies, I recommend the use of social software such as social bookmarking and PBwiki so that our graduates have access to these resources long after their course has ended. It is my ultimate hope that many of these graduates will continue to not only use the resources they've created themselves, but to continue to contribute back to their growing community of practice.
In my class wiki, my students will be developing projects which focus on assessing new technologies, developing policies and guides to implementation. |
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| Amy Masi |
http://summermicro2008.pbwiki.com/
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I'm teaching Microbiology at a college that is striving to move towards a more student driven learning module, with collaborative projects. They would like the faculty to become more of a facillitator than just lecturer. I'm taking the summer semester to try and implement a few of these new standards using PBwiki to encourage students to summarize each lecture, list things that were confusing, and work collaboratively on case studies and disease outbreak scenarios. I've just got a few pages up and I'm asking other faculty members to comment and add to it before it is deployed. I already make heavy use of Blackboard for one way communication with students- lecture notes, due dates, labs, announcements, and grading. All the exams are given via blackboard also, but I think the wiki's encourage students to take some control of their learning, and hopefully engage them more effectively. I agree with John above about the restrictive nature of Blackboard too.
Note: 4/17/08- I've created another wiki and I'm using it for my 125 Micro Lab students this semester. I've divided them into 20 groupsof 5-6 and given them two different bacteria to research. The parameters of the project are listed on each lab section page, as are the groups. So far they are going great gangbusters. Assessment is done by the students, each student will be able to vote on the best project other than theirs. Extra points will be awarded to the top 5 groups ( there are 5 lab sections). Check the wiki out, it's HUGE.... |
masia@acp.edu |
| Hillary Jones |
I use wikis in all the classes I teach now. Two of the ones included are public speaking for first-year students and message analysis. We have a lot of speeches in these classes, and students always give half-hearted feedback in class. Instead, I have them take notes on one another's speeches in class, look at one another's work on the wiki, and post feedback to help their colleagues grow. This is helpful to me, also, as I have a written record of their feedback to one another, and I can track participation. I also use my class wikis for a dynamic class schedule, to help students get to know one another (personal profiles), to coordinate their group work and projects, and to help students make connections between course concepts and things they encounter in their everday lives.
I use ANGEL (similar to Blackboard) heavily in my classes, as well, but I think the collaborative nature of wikis is hard to reproduce in other environments. My students have responded very positively to using the wiki.
The philosophy wiki page was one I created for one of my professors. We were having a hard time coordinating everyone's discussion questions and responses in the seminar every week--this way we could all see one another's responses, print them from one place, and access them from anywhere. She liked using it so much she's asked me to show her how to make wikis of her own! |
aj120@psu.edu | |
| Vida Zorko |
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This is a wiki I use with my Sociology students in blended problem based learning.
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vida.zorko@fdv.uni-lj.si |
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Richard Glass & Marsha Spiegelman |
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A wiki used to teach applications of Database searching, Boolean Logic and Set Theory along with research techniques to play treasure hunt game.
A wiki used to teach second year computer science course. Both research techniques and programming pronciples are taught. A idea used here is that a question (page is created) on a tangential topic and the first student that correctly edits the page with the answer, receives the credit.
A wiki used to introduce students to the topic of software engineering.
A wiki used to introduce second year mathematics students the fundementals of discipline related resarch and teach information literacy. |
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