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You can review the wiki page and quickly see who’s on the team and what role they
play. Later, as students complete their assignments, you can link the assignments from
the wiki page so students can easily see what they’ve worked on.
Ask students to tag the group projects with their names, so that later you can review
everything the student worked on as part of a team.
Using Wikis for Persistent Projects
You can use wikis to create persistent projects, projects that last beyond a single
semester or classroom.
For example, in a history class, you can create a class project where everyone works
on a shared timeline. In the following semester, you can create a project where the
class splits into teams and focuses on different areas of the timeline, building on the
work of the initial class. Future semesters create more detailed information in the wiki,
resulting in a detailed, rich timeline that isn’t possible in a single semester.
There are many issues with creating a cohesive, integrated, large scale, persistent
deliverable in paper format:
Issue Paper Solution Wiki Solution
Access to previous students
source materials You must store accompanying
source files for printed reports
on a file server. The content is the source.
Previously created material
that gets lost You must store backup copies of
printed materials. Content can’t be lost. If content
is deleted, you can restore it.
Finding areas to improve or
build on You must read through volumes
of material or rely on notes from
previous students. You can browse through
content, looking for pages that
don’t have much content.
Referencing previous work You must create a
bibliographical reference for
every reference. You can create a link to other
pages.
Combining work into a
cohesive set You must physically arrange
reports in an order that makes
sense. You can link from related pages
to created content.
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