Collaborative creation of a course glossary in Wiki
Brief description
all participants in a lecture or seminar provide contributions to a glossary on the course topic.Goals
- Active involvement with the course contents and concepts
- Expansion of active vocabulary
Tools
- Wiki in the Stud.IP course
Procedure
On the Wiki page for your course create a list with sub-pages for letters A to Z. The Wiki page may appear like this:
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Seminar Lexicon
Dear Participant,
Please write your glossary contributions on the pages with the appropriate initial letters:
LeXiA, LeXiB, LeXiC, LeXiD, LeXiE, LeXiF, LeXiG, LeXiH, LeXiI, LeXiJ, LeXiK, LeXiL, LeXiM, LeXiN,
LeXiO, LeXiP, LeXiQ, LeXiR, LeXiS, LeXiT, LeXiU, LeXiV, LeXiW, LeXiX, LeXiY, LeXiZ
Thank you for your contribution.
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Author attributions and version management in Stud.IP mean that Wiki at all times shows who posted what contribution and when. If after a reasonable time there are still not enough contributions, you may need to call for them. Posting contributions should be a part of the workload and you could define it as a necessary preparation for participation in examinations. You might take a selection of the student contributions as a model for exam questions, but if you intend to do this you should announce it.
Possible variations
- For larger courses: division into groups (if necessary use Stud.IP group administration), which then have to clarify and revise their contributions internally as a group, represented by one team leader. Risk: the group does not work together, but just shares out the work (everyone just makes one contribution).
- Assigning individual participants/groups to specific lecture/seminar dates or topics. Advantage: covers the entire spectrum of topics. Risk: finding terms can be far more difficult for specific topics (insufficient equality of opportunity).
Documentation
The individual pages can be exported as a PDF and then combined into a document.Literature/Links
Häfele, H. & Maier-Häfele, K. (2004): 101 e-Learning Seminarmethoden. managerSeminare Verlags GmbH, Bonn (ISBN 3-936075-07-7), Kapitel C1.1 S. 63Notes:
A Wiki installation offered by the GWDG is recommended for comprehensive Wikis that cover the entire university http://www.gwdg.de/index.php?id=1063This blended-learning-scenario is based upon a project realized within the „Win a Tutor“-programme at Bremen University (ZMML).