wsuwiki:Teaching Learning Use Cases
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Example ways that a wiki might be well suited to teaching and learning activities. Please add more kinds of activities/uses, elaborate on the ones below, and make pointers to examples of these various uses (in this wiki or another).
What won't work well in this wiki? If your material must be private, or if it is not community property (for example, editing should be restricted), it probably won't work in the wiki.
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Home Pages
Course Home Page
Since there is no way in this wiki to prevent others editing the page, WSU Wiki might not work for a syllabus, but, courses might collect together one or more of the other document types below: Articles, Bibliographies, FAQs, Procedures, etc. Think of the analogy to how the WSU Libraries work. They collect books, journals, etc, on topics. Faculty put those materials On Reserve for a specific term. The WIkiWay to put a wiki article on reserve is to add a category tag to the page, see the how to. This item is disputed, see discussion page for this page. (How-to) (Examples)
Club or Group Home Page
Since there is no way to prevent others editing the page, WSU Wiki might not work for a organizations' home page, but groups may wish to create Articles, Bibliographies, etc and collect them together for people with an interest in the Club or group. (How to)
Personal Home Page
Use of the User page to create a profile of oneself as a member of this wiki's community, and a portfolio of one's contributions to the community are appropriate. (How to) Also, see Vanity/ Personal Page, below.
FAQ on a Topic
Frequently Asked Questions could be managed in the wiki to supplement another web site. Students might both ask and answer these questions. FAQs could reference, or be the progenators of, Articles, Bibliographies, or Procedures and Instructions. (How to)
Procedures and Instructions
One or more courses might make assignments to use a specific technology or technique (e.g, scan and upload documents; research a topic using Proquest.) Multiple users, staff, etc, could revise and improve these instructions as needed. (How to)
Topic Bibliography
Create, maintain and annotate a bibliography on a topic. This work might be done by students in a course (over multiple semesters); several courses with overlapping interests in a topic; a graduate student researching a dissertation; and/or a faculty member for research. (How to)
Other tools to consider would be [CiteULike] and [del.icio.us].
Collaboratively Written Article
An author and collaborators create an article, and invite peer comment (Discussion page) and/or editing. A Bibliography may evolve into an Article over time. (How to)
Electronic Portfolio
The "my contribution" page tracks the work of a given user, and the "diff"s on that page show the change made by the user. Users could make some reflection (on their User page) on the meaning of the diffs that they have created. (How to)
What this Wiki is not
Restricted Access
Uses that depend on restricting visibility of a page to a group, or restricting the ability to edit to a person or group are not supported by the current implementation.
Vanity/ Personal Page
Uses for creating personal web sites or vanity pages are not appropriate.
Non-Teaching or Learning Uses
WSU users with other uses for wiki can consult CTLT for advice on implementing a Wiki for other purposes. Community uses of Wiki are invited to explore MoscowWiki, a community wiki resource.