Potential+Wiki+Online+Education++Projects

=What are some potential uses of wikis in online education you are thinking of developing for your class or counseling group?=

Dan
I am in the process of learning how to use Wiki on my Moodle site that I have had available for my students for the past four years. I have noted a Wiki activity item on the site but now I have a better idea as to how to use it. I have considered including this tool for an introductory summer activity where the students will create, save, edit and save different assigned activities throughout the the summer months. This will be done to introduce my class to the students and the students to introduce themselves to the classmates. Group collaborative reports created during the two webquests (Disaster, King Tut) will be enhanced by using Wikis to bring together the information the teams gathered. I've even considered a virtual seminar with my faculty members to bring them an understanding of how useful Wikis can be in their own classrooms. It will start out with listing ten events the classroom participated in and evolve into different "interest" presentations by groups of students. Math tutoring help can be enhanced with the Wiki format of write, save, edit, save.

Deb
I'd like to get a group of students together who have come for counseling in the last year and who have identified themselves as having poor social skills and problems making and keeping friends. I would ask these 5 or so students who are recruited from our counseling clientele to be the experts on what one needs to learn in order to feel competent in social situations. I would then have them start using a wiki to write a User's Guide to Social Skills. In the process of identifying what social situations they feel are uncomfortable, or haven't gone as they would like, they can write an outline of what questions they need to answer in order to write a "how to" book. The two counselors who will participate can guide some of the discussion and help steer the group members to information. I would include a real time, face to face experiential part to the class where they are practicing with some modeling the social skills that are essential to good relationships. I would have them use the Discussion part of the Wiki to talk about these experiences and what they learned to formulate the answers to the questions they ask.

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