Using wikis in teaching

Michael Verhaart (@virtualmv)

mverhaart@eit.ac.nz

http://www.virtualmv.com

http://wikieducator.org/User:Mverhaart

Blended Teaching & Learning• I teach students in a face to face

classroom and provide them with my content in a wiki.

• There are three wikis I use:• WikiEducator (more recently)• One in Moodle• One I host myself (

http://www.virtualmv.com/wiki )

• On the following slides I will show some examples of how I use wikis in my teaching

MoodleOn the Moodle wiki (which is only available to students enrolled in

Moodle),I get my students to: • Organise themselves into groups• List topics for presentations (avoids the same topic being

chosen)• Make lists of useful links

My wiki• Uses the same "engine" as WikiEducator

(called MediaWiki)

My Wiki - in a Lecture

http://www.virtualmv.com/wiki/index.php?title=Internet:Email#History

My Wiki – a learning task

http://www.virtualmv.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTML/XHTML:Linking_pages

My Wiki – an interactive help desk

http://www.virtualmv.com/wiki/index.php?title=JavaScript:Interactive_Help_Desk

My Wiki – quick quizzes

http://www.virtualmv.com/wiki/index.php?title=Internet:Multiple_choice_questions

My Wiki – for connecting to other sites

Twitter (uses #vmvwiki) tag

Flickr/Picasa

Google Presenter

WikiEducator – for staff training with two facilitators

http://wikieducator.org/NZ/EIT/Open_Education_Resources_and_WikiEducator

Using wikis in teaching

Michael Verhaart

mverhaart@eit.ac.nz

http://www.virtualmv.com

http://wikieducator.org/User:Mverhaart