1. 1 Collaborative Writing With Wikis

2. 2 http://go.geneseo.edu/cwp

3. 3 What is a Wiki?

4. 4 How Does It Work?

5. 5 What’s the Point? Wikis are a powerful collaboration tool for students. promote accountability in collaboration. help classrooms become communities.

6. 6 Collaboration Group members can contribute 24/7. The past is always present. “Discussion” provides a way to manage talk about the project.

7. 7 Collaboration

8. 8 Accountability Wikis permit analysis of user statistics. How many contributions has each user made? What changes has each user made to each page?

9. 9 Accountability

10. 10 Accountability

11. 11 Accountability

12. 12 Community Wikis encourage students to think in terms of community learning outcomes. encourage students to see their strengths as a community asset. underscore the power of combining assets.

13. 13 Kinds of Wiki Projects

14. 14 Articles and Essays

15. 15 Articles and Essays

16. 16 Annotated Texts

17. 17 Annotated Texts

18. 18 Annotated Bibliographies

19. 19 Dictionaries

20. 20 Dictionaries

21. 21 Study Guides

22. 22 Challenges Learning curve for faculty and students Intimidation Assigning credit for work

23. 23 Solutions Provide lots of help.  Screenshots  Screencasts Fight intimidation with encouragement. In grading, balance participation and quality.

24. 24 Advantages Wikis are more collaborative than blogs. more focused than bulletin boards. less ephemeral than either.

25. 25 Wiki Software Mediawiki Kwiki Dokuwiki

26. 26 Hosted Wikis PBWiki - pbwiki.com Wikispaces - wikispaces.com Wetpaint - wetpaint.com Writeboard - writeboard.com

27. 27 Enterprise Solutions Socialtext - socialtext.com Confluence - atlassian.com/software/confluence LMS wikis - e.g., Angel

28. 28 Learn and Share ikiw.org rowingalone.pbwiki.com