Jill Gannon, MA Candidate School of Communication, SDSU Patricia Geist-Martin, Professor School of Communication, SDSU

COM 428 Communicating Health at Work  Create new course in Health Com degree program  Focus on how communicating at work can contribute to sustainability  Define sustainability as “the possibility that human and other life will flourish on the planet forever” (Ehrenfeld, 2009, p. 6). Ehrenfeld, J. R. (2008). Sustainability by design: A subversive strategy for transforming our consumer culture. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

 Students will assess their own behaviors in their work lives that promote or restrict workplace wellness and employee sustainability.  Students will identify the policies that local organizations have in place that promote or restrict workplace wellness and employee sustainability.  Students will devise strategies for improving communication in ways that promote workplace wellness and employee sustainability.  Students will collaborate in teams to construct a wiki for their chosen topic.

 A wiki is a website that allows the creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser.  A wiki invites all users to edit any page or to create new pages within the wiki Web site, using only a Web browser.  A wiki enables communities to write documents collaboratively.  A wiki involves visitors in an ongoing process of creation and collaboration that constantly changes the Web site landscape.

 A single page in a wiki website is referred to as a "wiki page", while the entire collection of pages, which are usually well interconnected by hyperlinks, is "the wiki". hyperlinks  A wiki creates a learning community, a group of people that share common values and beliefs, are actively engaged in learning together from each other.

 Students investigate the meaning of a sustainability topic of their choosing.  Students analyze information about their sustainability topic to discover information for their wiki.  Students design a wiki page, making decisions about the placement of information about their sustainability topic.  Students create links to information that supports the home page of their sustainability topic.  Students present their wiki to the class in a systematic and engaging manner.

 Written=250 points; Oral= 50 points Each team’s wiki must include the following elements:  A home page that includes the information and layout specified by the design team.  A unique and engaging title for their team’s topic (optional but encouraged is a logo that symbolizes the team’s topic)  A clear definition of the team’s topic on the team’s home page 

 A minimum of six additional pages cross linked from the home page (e.g., a page that highlights organizations’ practices of engaging in the team’s topics, a page that includes photos of events that represent the team’s topic, a page that includes a more elaborated definition and sources [#5, required], a page that reveals the international interpretation of the team’s topic, etc.)  A cross link to a more elaborated definition and a list of 10 or more sources related to their topic (at least five should be from academic journals or books).  A minimum of six hyperlinks to other websites related to the content covered in the team’s wiki.

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Creating the Wiki  Phase 1: Working with Suzanne Aurillio (ITS)  Phase 2: Meeting with Design Team Students  Phase 3: Assisting in Content Insertion  Phase 4: Follow up with Wiki Design

Wiki as Writing  Unique form of reflection  Able to see different perspectives of the community-based service learning process  Active engagement  Continuous involvement of content updating

Wiki Work Thus Far  SDSU Service Learning Wiki ◦  Health Communication Program Wiki ◦  Health Communication (COMM 421) Wiki ◦ m/ m/