Flipping the flip: Organizing students around a wiki and training colleagues to do likewise

Organizing students around a wiki and training colleagues to do likewise

Fall Blog Festival Sept 21, 2014Vance Stevens

HCT / CERT / KBZAC Al Ain UAE

Flipping the Flip:

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I’ve noticed that in the first few slides on sets posted at Slideshare.net the hyperlinks don’t work. So, there are

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Vance Stevens Fall Blog Fest 2014 rev.24/9

Combined Learning2gether and Fall Blog Festival 2014 event


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Toolkit for Shared LearningThis is part of an ongoing PD blog initiative where I work

http://toolkit4learning.blogspot.ae/2014/09/organizing-students-around-wikis-and.html




Flipping the flip? • I use a wiki with my students where I teach at

http://kbzac.pbworks.com • Colleagues have started to appreciate using the wiki in

courses we teach mutually• I have been asked to help train teachers to create

their own wikis at http://kbzpd.pbworks.com

• As I teach my colleagues I model how a wiki can archive the learning in such as way as to train others who might use it later in a flipped context

http://kbzac.pbworks.com/

http://kbzpd.pbworks.com/


Flip-as-You-GoThis begs the question• Is it best to prepare the course in advance

(so that students can theoretically use it to prepare beforehand?)

• Or to create the course as you teach it?(You explain, demonstrate, archive what you did at the end of each lesson)

• Or both?This presentation is an examination of the latter approach, a sort of Flip-as-You-Go method


Fall Blog Festival Recording Link

This presentation was recorded in WizIQClick on picture to access the recording

This session demonstrates a wiki developed for my classes over time that colleagues in my teaching context started collaborating with, and how I created a wiki to help my colleagues create their own, in such a way that it modeled how learning can be facilitiated through a wiki, at http://kbzpd.pbworks.com


http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/2092922-fall-blog-festival-organizing-students-and-teachers-around-a-wiki


Why this works for students

• Clear assignments• Clear tasks with

links to course documents, other materials, media, and online spaces used

• Archive of past assignments



Introducing http://KBZAC.pbworks.com

http://kbzac.pbworks.com/


Affordances for teachers

• Clarity in setting up courses so others may follow them

• Create record of syllabuses taught, useful when repeating similar courses

• Create library of materials used; media, documents, etc.

• Open and shareable– Can share resources by links– Can GOOGLE for resources


Open and shareable

• A colleague remembered I had set up instructions for students to download and install Audacity

• She asked me where are they?• (I didn’t know offhand; it’s an organically

developed site)• I suggested we Google “kbzac” and “audacity”• We were feeling lucky Bingo!


Open means you can Google it


How best to deliver materials for a new course

– Dropbox– Google Drive– Google Docs

– Showbie– LAN– WIKI !!

• I am a teacher on a newly restructured aviation English course

• Welter of new materials drove colleagues to explore online spaces to organize resources; e.g.


Some preferred the Wiki Way

• Small team used my wiki for collaboration on course development and implementation– We could set up common materials, notices,

assessment strategies on one page– Each team member could have own page– Facilitated sharing because wiki members

uploaded files to the wiki (each has a link)– From the wiki we could link to spaces others were

using (though not the other way around )


Introducing http://KBZPD.pbworks.com

Other teachers wanted to use the wiki approach • I started teaching them by creating a wiki

where I could archive lessons so others could catch up

• The archive can then morph into a flipped lesson

• This models approach to online course design that teachers could adopt in creating their own wikis organically for students



http://kbzpd.pbworks.com

This presentation is about the modeling

This is the space where the modeling was done



Wiki approach to designing blended learning environments

• Develop your site as a tutorial• Lots of links to – resources subsumed under tutorial

(annotated, not just list of resources)– Other participants’ wikis to showcase other’s work and

promote collaboration• Illustrate concepts with screen shots from Jing– Get it free from http://jingproject.com

• Set headings (H1, H2, etc) to create Table of Contents

http://jingproject.com/

http://jingproject.com/


Drawbacks to wikis

• Text-ish• Navigation needs to be designed• Clunky placement of graphics• HTML sometimes needed to correct bugs in

wiki display(This can be an affordance!)


Affordances of wikis• Revision history, can revert to previous versions• Sidebar and Table of Contents to facilitate

navigation• Education resources stored at the wiki– Each resource has a link– File sharing; others can download

• From the wiki itself or• from those links

– generous space allocation• HTML can be used to augment, embed, etc.


Revision History

An old page from development of this wiki is used to illustrate how to generate a Table of Contents


Why Table of Contents?

This is from Revision History

This is the current pager


How to create a Table of Contents


Finding my workshop on Link Loops


Why Link Loops?

http://vanceposterous.wordpress.com/2012/06/13/teaching-teachers-how-to-create-simple-link-l/





What are link loops?

• Not everyone understands the concept of hyperlinking, so in training we may have to start there

• Link to from a teacher’s portal to anything else, and from there link back again

Find this explained here in KBZPD wikihttp://kbzpd.pbworks.com/w/page/85843726/purpose_page#Section2hasthreepartsletscallitLinkLoops

http://kbzpd.pbworks.com/w/page/85843726/purpose_page#Section2hasthreepartsletscallitLinkLoops





Example link loop … This portal http://tinyurl.com/ncpd2012june

Loops back to here

http://tinyurl.com/ncpd2012june

http://tinyurl.com/ncpd2012june


Just in Time vs. Just in CaseModeling evidenced in what a colleague created

Thanks for your interest in this presentation by Vance Stevens at

the Fall Blog Festival, 2014

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