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Category Archives: Wikis forTeaching/Learning
Will Richardson’s Book
I just finished reading Will Richardson’s book, Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms. As you might expect, it’s an excellent entry-level primer for incorporating Web 2.0 tools into the classroom, including both why you would want … Continue reading
Final Project for My Seminar
This semester I’ve been teaching a seminar on contemporary economic issues. I’ve blogged about this course before, most recently this morning. A key part of the course is a wiki that we have used to identify the topics we wanted … Continue reading
Another Wiki Event
Today is our last class of the semester in the seminar which is using a wiki. I am trying something today for that class, which in retrospect isn’t that big a deal–it seems very straightforward for me, and yet, I’d … Continue reading
Another Wiki Success
Last week at more or less the last minute I ran into a family conflict that required my missing class. I quickly took what I had planned to do in class: collecting and analyzing data on the size of the … Continue reading
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Hosting Another Faculty Conversation
About a month ago I mentioned that I was participating in our school’s new first year seminar program next year. In that post I asked for help designing a digital environment to support my seminar. We took the first step … Continue reading
Preaching Again Without a License
Social software like blogs and wikis, and perhaps more importantly, rss feeds change the processes of academia. This includes administrative processes, as well as teaching and learning. [I wonder who’s more resistant to change: faculty or administrators & staff. I … Continue reading
Wiki as Substitute Teacher?
Ten minutes after dropping my younger children off at school this morning, I received a phone call from my 6 year old’s teacher. He had left his backpack in my car and was beside himself. I decided to turn around … Continue reading
Wikis for Just-in-Time Teaching
I just got a buzz. Maybe it’s the strong coffee I’m drinking (Whole Foods Market Pleasant Morning Buzz). But maybe it’s that I just finished reading the wiki postings for my seminar. Granted, I only have ten students in this … Continue reading
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Wiki for Collaborative Notetaking
We tried something different in the seminar today. Because our “official” notetaker was late to class, everyone took notes on paper. At the end of class, I solicited a volunteer to post her notes on the wiki–I tried to get … Continue reading
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Wiki as Whiteboard
One of the shortcomings of using a whiteboard (or blackboard) in the classroom, especially for open-ended activities like brainstorming, is that there is no record of what was written down. Because of that, in recent years I’ve taken to opening … Continue reading