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J IANHAO CHEN, SMAT AREA COORDINATOR

TERESA SMITH, NURSING PROGRAM FACULTY

CRAIG LAMB, DIRECTOR OF ACADEMIC SUPPORT

JOSHUA GAUL, O. I .T. INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGIST

MODERATOR: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

LISA RAPPLE, C.D.L . CURRICULUM DESIGN TEAM

Supporting Collaborative Initiatives in Wiki-mediated Environments:

A Panel Discussion

Overview of the program:

Lisa Rapple Intro: What is a WIKI? (student orientation video), and

Why choose a WIKI, educational implications?

Introduce the panel members.

Joshua Gaul – WIKI features that facilitate educators’ needs

Teresa Smith – Student collaborative work (Student Artifacts)

Jianhao Chen – Student feedback after using a WIKI

Craig Lamb – Professional development on a WIKI

Joshua Gaul – future of wiki-mediated tools at Empire State College

QUESTIONS FOR THE PANEL -

Who knows what a WIKI really is?

What is a WIKI?

Educational Implications

of a WIKI?

Wiki-mediated learning environments facilitate social constructivist design models. The students are brought into close proximity with one another, the content, and the instructor so that collaborative learning activities that support improved learning outcomes are possible.

JoshGaul

TreSmith

JianhaoChen

CraigLamb

The technology exists

Students quality of

work improves

Students buy-in.

Great for colleagues

to collaborate.

Wiki Discussion Panel

Joshua Gaul - WIKI key functional features for educators’• Create a post with an image, a table, and a bulleted list.

• Edit that post after the fact.

• Go back and revert to the first version of the post.

• Edit another person's post. (Can they see who made which

edits?)

• Export a post as another format (PDF, doc, html - which ones

work?).

• Print a post - how's it look?

• Use the search function to find a post you have created.

• Add a member to the wiki giving them the lowest possible level

of access.

• Comment on someone else's post.

• Change the theme of the wiki.

• Make the wiki private.

• Make one page of the wiki private. (?)

• Wiki Taskforce, ESC 2011

Joshua Gaul - WIKI key functional features for educators’

Teresa Smith – Student collaborative work

http://www.wikispaces.com

Jianhao Chen – Student feedback on using a WIKI

Craig Lamb – Professional Collaboration on a WIKI

Based on the results of our project, Wikispaces has made us lean in its direction, however we have determined that a good solution for us would be to build this in-house. This is for a few reasons:

---Login is easier to handle if its within an already owned software (Open Atrium)

---We aren't sure of the immediate buy-in, so spending $6000 a year on an enterprise software

doesn't make sense to start. If we get lots of interest, we'll re- consider at that time.

---A little more control over use may ease the minds of end-users; we will offer this as an alternative option. If people would like to still use their existing wikis in Wikispaces, PBWiki, etc., they are welcome to.Wikispaces will be the best solution when we have a high volume of buy-in. For now, we can "duplicate" its capabilities in house, based on what you have told us are priorities in a tool like this. We are hoping to be setup for testing for the summer term or, at the latest, the fall term.

Wiki Taskforce, ESC 2011

Joshua Gaul –

Future of wiki-mediated tools at Empire State College

QUESTIONS FOR THE PANEL