Wikis for Collaborative Learning and Knowledge Construction
Title:
Use a wiki to develop an emergency action plan in the event of a grain elevator entrapment
Target Audience:
Participants in GEAPS 545 - Grain Elevator Entrapment: Causes, Prevention & Rescue
Learning Objectives:
Understand the procedures necessary in the event of an entrapment
Consider all aspects of an entrapment, including personnel and fire/rescue
Utilization of the wiki for gap analysis
Materials Needed:
Template of emergency action plan which can be found here.
Additional resources regarding grain entrapments, which are provided in the course work and here.
Process:
Locate your group in the group area with K-StatePro. Use the Group message board to coordinate the wiki layout, design and interaction. Join the wiki, via the link shared by the instructor. Some resources available to support the wiki building process can be found here:
Collaborative Effort (as seen in the history and individual bibliography) – 5 points.
Peer Assessment (as determined via the Axio survey sent post wiki) - 10 points.
Content – 15 points. Content provided is accurate, resources suggested are used and cited when appropriate. Content is organized and could be utilized as an action plan in the event of an emergency.
Visual appeal and Interactive Component – 10 points. Wiki is visually interesting, using different font sizes and headings when needed. Graphics/widgets are leveraged in an appropriate way to bring attention when necessary and don't take away from the content of the page. There is an interactive component on the page to engage visitors to the wiki.
Your lesson plan is so clean and concise. Very nice! I will admit, I have no frame of reference for the content, but I still think I could complete your assignment. You gave plenty of supporting materials for students to accomplish the task. I also think it is a good choice for knowledge construction. West and West (2009, p 33) base wiki projects on Bloom's Taxonomy and give us several words to define knowledge construction, like define, describe, list, label, summarize, organize, interpret and elaborate. By having your students create an emergency action plan, you not only help your students process factual information, but you also encourage them to make real meaning out of that information by organizing it in a way that it practical and useable in an emergency situation which ties it back to relevant work and needs.
West, J. and West, M. (2009). Using wikis for Online Collaboration. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA.
Although grain elevator entrapment is a topic remote from my urban world, I think even I could make effective contributions to the wiki project because of your effective framing, scaffolding and provision of outside resources, as envisioned by West and West (2009). For students in a graduate-level course on this topic (do such courses really exist?!) who would obviously bring some theoretical knowledge and practical experience to the project, this lesson would very likely fulfill the potential of wikis to provide meaningful contextual learning that “engages students in significant and relevant activities that help them connect their academic learning to real-life situations and problems” (West & West, p. 22).
Your relatively minimal (but not incomplete) framing seems appropriate for the level of the course, and reminded me of something I read in Lamb (2004) about the need to let the students have complete control of the wiki’s content if the learning experience is to be truly constructive.
To top it all off, this really is a ‘life-or-death’ topic!
KSU Cuz
References
Lamb, B. (2004). Wide open spaces: Wikis, ready or not. Educause Review, 39(5), 36-48. Retrieved from http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/wide-open-spaces-wikis-ready-or-not
West, J. A., & West, M. L. (2009). Using wikis for online collaboration: The power of the read-write Web. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Your lesson plan is so clean and concise. Very nice! I will admit, I have no frame of reference for the content, but I still think I could complete your assignment. You gave plenty of supporting materials for students to accomplish the task. I also think it is a good choice for knowledge construction. West and West (2009, p 33) base wiki projects on Bloom's Taxonomy and give us several words to define knowledge construction, like define, describe, list, label, summarize, organize, interpret and elaborate. By having your students create an emergency action plan, you not only help your students process factual information, but you also encourage them to make real meaning out of that information by organizing it in a way that it practical and useable in an emergency situation which ties it back to relevant work and needs.
ReplyDeleteWest, J. and West, M. (2009). Using wikis for Online Collaboration. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA.
Hi Miller,
ReplyDeleteAlthough grain elevator entrapment is a topic remote from my urban world, I think even I could make effective contributions to the wiki project because of your effective framing, scaffolding and provision of outside resources, as envisioned by West and West (2009). For students in a graduate-level course on this topic (do such courses really exist?!) who would obviously bring some theoretical knowledge and practical experience to the project, this lesson would very likely fulfill the potential of wikis to provide meaningful contextual learning that “engages students in significant and relevant activities that help them connect their academic learning to real-life situations and problems” (West & West, p. 22).
Your relatively minimal (but not incomplete) framing seems appropriate for the level of the course, and reminded me of something I read in Lamb (2004) about the need to let the students have complete control of the wiki’s content if the learning experience is to be truly constructive.
To top it all off, this really is a ‘life-or-death’ topic!
KSU Cuz
References
Lamb, B. (2004). Wide open spaces: Wikis, ready or not. Educause Review, 39(5), 36-48. Retrieved from http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/wide-open-spaces-wikis-ready-or-not
West, J. A., & West, M. L. (2009). Using wikis for online collaboration: The power of the read-write Web. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.