WIKImania

A wiki is a place where students and teachers can come together. As a member of Wikispaces, you can create as many wikis as you like.

Surprisingly the buy using wikispaces.com the wiki was easy to set up. The hardest part was determining what actual use it could be put to. Firstly I began to peer review (thanks Katrina) and was amazed at the diverse range of topics.You tube also provided a lot of incite to the role of a wiki within education.

By using a wiki LMQ 345 are able to be considered -How does my learner best learn? What resources do I have at my disposal? and what will constitute an authentic learning journey?

A wiki enables documents to be written collaboratively (Aldred,S,2010)To design effective learning activities we need to have specific learning outcomes. A wiki as a resource seeks to attract the student to an ongoing student centred learning process of creation and collaboration allowing them to constantly personalise and change the wiki whilst following the course.

In order to ensure that students stay on task (LMQ 7) a Learning Manager would be able to constantly monitor participation from each student and when required comment (LMQ8)and assist them to extend and refine their knowledge (Dol 3) in order to complete their learning.

Each page could reflect a term or a months work. Each student would be able to actively contribute to the page (create) the layout would be based on the how the students felt the information would be best presented. This active participation would assist students with revision of the work covered. The wiki would be able to be used by yr 11 students throughout their learning journey to yr 12.

Kearsley and Shneiderman (1999) suggest that 'the role of technology 'in theory' is facilitate engagement' . Whilst the Engagement theory concludes that by engaging learning, students actively participate in creating, problem solving,reasoning,decision making and evaluation.

Student collaboration in using a wiki would support this theory in students are able to Relate (students assist in the set up of the account and the layout) Create (students they can assist to define some of the project, comment on peer work, and collaboratively complete the task) and Donate( students are able to use this as a source document of their learning and future students will be able to use this document as a resource)(Kearsley G, & Shneiderman, B. 1999).

Reference:
Kearsley, G., & Shneiderman, B. (1999). Engagement Theory: A framework for tehnology-based teaching and learning. Retrieved from CQUniversity e-course, EDED20491 ICTs for learning design, http://e-courses.cqu.edu.au.

Aldred, S. (2010). EDED20491 - ICTs for learning design: Study guide. Rockhampton, Qld: CQUniversity Australia.