Following the face-to-face session

The objectives of this course activity are to:

• make contact with participants of the face-to-face
• share ideas emerging from the course so far.

As explained by your facilitator in the face-to-face session, the course forum is available to all participants in the course after the end of the two hour facilitated session.

Go to the forum and post a message to the other participants. You may wish to reflect on the course so far, or post some ideas that have emerged from your planning of how to create appropriate projects or activities for learners to engage with on a wiki.

The objective of this course activity is to make use of some of the ideas shared in the face-to-face session together with your reading to plan teaching and learning activities that could be carried out collaboratively using a wiki.

The face-to-face session introduced some ideas for collaboration using a wiki. You may have already thought of some activities that your learners could engage with that will allow them to contribute collaboratively through wiki pages that you will provide. Think now about an actual activity that could give you and your learners opportunity to work together on wiki-based collaboration.

You may want to divide your large group of learners into smaller groups that may be deliberately structured to work together effectively. Each group could have one small activity to work on that altogether makes a larger project. For example, small groups of learners could take measurements locally of environmental or community-related factors, for example, amount of litter, different availability of public transport, or local provision of facilities. These could then be added to the wiki to generate a larger data set. Students could find out one historical fact about their local city, town or village and add it to the wiki. A project on war poetry could include asking each learner to find one war poem they like and add it to the wiki.

Plan your collaborative activity, keeping it simple if it is the first time you have used a wiki, and work out how you will divide your learners into groups. Several groups will need several wiki pages.

You can share your ideas for activities, and find out more about what other participants on this course have thought about, by visiting the forum and posting a message.