Working with Wikis

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Working with Wikis

• Part of
• LTG Lite Byte series

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Outline of session

• The Lite Byte series
• What are wikis?
• Wikis in education
• The Blackboard wiki tool
• Joshua Bell
• Discussion

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What are wikis?

• A wiki is a type of website that allows the
  visitors themselves to easily add, remove and
  otherwise edit and change some available content,
  sometimes without the need for registration. This
  ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an
  effective tool for collaborative authoring.
• Wikipedia (http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki)
• Lets take a look
• http//www.wikipedia.org/
• http//www.wikitravel.org

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Wikis in education

• Creating a shared course resource
• Project development with peer review
• Group collaborations
• Track a group project
• Data collection

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The Blackboard wiki tool

• Part of Campus Pack
• Licence for one year
• Called Teams Group Site
• Lets take a look

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Using a Wiki at UEA

• Dr Joshua Bell (SRU)
• UG unit in WAM The Materiality of Melanesia
  Persons, Artefacts and the Environment
• https//my.pbwiki.com/

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Questions for discussion

• Is anyone using wikis?
• How could wikis be used in your teaching?
• Should we run some wiki pilots?
• Community?