Collaborative+Authoring

**EdTech Activity 1**
//Using wikis to create shared content.//

Welcome to the first EdTech Activities. While we are trying to **show you how** to use a wiki, we are also trying to show the **benefits of** using a wiki.

In this particular EdTech activity, we will show you how to use a wiki to collaborate and share information.

Hopefully you will extend the discussion to identify where collaborative aurthoring may foster creative learning opportunities for your students in the future.

Please follow the simple steps provided.

Step 1
First complete your wiki profile. Click on your name at the top of the page and select edit profile. We don't wish to be too proscriptive, somewhat of a wikipedia entry about yourself. Nothing personal, just general academic related details. Here are two we prepared earlier.

user:Maryhricko and user:Kristianstill

Now that you have tried to complete this task, successful or unsuccessful, post a comment in the discussion post about completing this task.

Step 2
Creat a NEW page (TOP LEFT). Title that page as your RealName. For example, there is a page titled: Sample Portfolio.

This will become your wiki portfolio page. Your name is the name of the page.

include page="span_centre"**Use the template to save you time in planning out the page.**include page="span_centre_end" Each students will have their own page to showcase their "portfolio" of what they have created as part of this collaborative project.

Step 3
Add yourself to the class list below using the "user:KristianStill" function (copy the format when in edit mode) and then create a link to your Portfolio Page hereby creating a class list to everyones profile and portfolio page.


 * **RealName** || **Portfolio Page** || **EdTech 1** || **EdTech 2** || **EdTech 3** || **EdTech 4** || **EdTech 5** || **Total Completed** ||
 * user:Kristianstill || My Portfolio ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * user:Maryhricko || My Portfolio ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * user:markeymarc || My Portfolio ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * user:akotasek || My Portfolio ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||

Step 4
Comment on the process in the discussion forum. Where could a collaborative task such as this be used in teaching?

[|Here] is an example of Collaborative Authoring: Students were asked to review a series of Health and Safety in Sport topics and create a Wiki Chapter.

An otherwise dry and tedious subject area came to life as students synthesized, analyzed, created, evaluated and published their own work.