Wikis to Increase Student Engagement

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Wikis to Increase Student Engagement

• ILTL 2009 Summer Conference
• June 24, 2009
• David Thomson
• University of Denver
• http//snipurl.com/ILTL09

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Outline

• Teaching before Technology
• Whats a Wiki?
• Admin Law Sucks
• Wikis in Admin Law
• Other uses for wikis in law teaching
• Roll your own

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Teaching before Technology

• Substance in context
• Collaborative learning
• Engagement
• Teach Research
• The Hypertext mind

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Whats a Wiki?

• Web-based collaborative writing tool
• Wikipedia
• Its just software
• Many different flavors
• Blackboard add-on

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Admin Law Sucks

• Can be a dry and abstract subject
• Substantive law adds extra complexity
• Students often hate it
• Lack of connection with practice
• Hard to get/prepare an outline

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Admin Law Wiki 1

• For Group Research Projects
• 5 students on 10 Federal Agencies
• Given list of items to research
• Wiki created and presented every week
• 20 of the grade
• Lets take a look...

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Admin Law Wiki 2

• For the outline for the course
• Final exam Outline and Text only
• Nearly all students participated
• 10 of the grade
• Lets take a look...

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Other Applications

• Knowledge Management
• Legal Writing and Analysis
• Group projects of any sort
• Others?

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Small Group Discussion

• In groups of 3, discuss
• other uses of wikis for your law teaching
• Report out
• Type of course
• Educational goal
• How to use a wiki to achieve that goal

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Roll your own

• PBWorks
• Wetpaint
• Clearwiki
• Wikispaces