We’ve released the latest addition to the Digital Teaching Showcase: Geoff Proehl on Oberon, the Theatre Arts wiki. Click here to see the video or go to the Showcase tab on the navigation bar above!
Feature: The Oberon Wiki is used for the planning of play production by faculty and students of the Theatre Arts Department and also members of community theater groups. Geoff discusses how the wiki’s strength as a collaborative tool facilitates the group production process.
Extras: Prof. Proehl discusses how technology aids the process of “re-seeing” and how that is central to the very notion of education.
You can also view the videos in the following formats:
Geoff Proehl is Professor of Theatre Arts in the Theatre Arts Department. He was recently named as a James Dolliver National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Teaching Professor.
Wikis are a great tool for class or group projects where you want groups to have a central repository of all the material they have used in the projects. Wikis are the best tool for knowledge base building by groups, especially over time.
Wikis can also be used by individuals to create projects and make web sites which are much easy to make, maintain, and use than traditional highly static web pages.
Wikis being used by UPS departments
Both these wikis are hosted by the Instructional Technology group and run on Mediawiki, the wiki software that runs Wikipedia. It is recommended only for large, long-term projects.
Wikis for Class Group and Individual Projects
There are many wikis out there. Two that we recommend which are full featured, easy to use, and educator friendly are:
Resources on Teaching with Wikis
Want to set up a class, group project or individual web site or wiki?
With the amazing range of tools on the web to do sites and wikis, you don’t need learn web editing any more. Why go through all the pain of using a web editor and uploading files when you can everything simply in one place ?
Do you want the world to see your content, but control and share the editing and adding of pages and content to a selected group of others? Then:
Use a Wikispace
The online tool we recommend for student and class projects is Wikispaces.
Wikispaces is education friendly, free in its basic membership, and very easy to use. It is great for having small groups of people create a web site together. You can control who can and cannot edit this wiki. It has a good WYSIWYG editor, easy ways of adding pages and external web links, and great support for embedded files, pictures, and media links (such as audio and video links). You don’t have to know anything about “wiki markup codes” or “WikiWords” to use this simple but powerful tool.
How to set up your Wikispaces wiki
Getting started with it is easy, just like most web applications these days. Go to http://www.wikispaces.com and fill out the simple “Join Now” form.
Here are two screencasts we have made that will guide you through the sign up process for your free wiki and how to get started inviting others to share your wiki (if you want).
Wikispaces has some wonderful help, which of course is in the wiki:
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