Week+11

no online meeting =Readings= We will focus on online collaboration this week. 1. What's online collaboration and how does it work? Learning Together in Community: Collaboration Online 2. B est practices and current thinking on online student collaboration. [|An overview of a 32-page report] The full report 3. Tools used in online collaboration A collection of online collaboration tools 5 Great Sites for Student Collaboration 20 Online Collaboration tools for college students.

=Wikispaces= Wiki is one of the most typical online collaboration tools. HERE is video to explain what wiki is in plain language. You may also want to check HERE to get a deeper understanding of how wiki works. A list of educational wikis can be found here.

Assignment
For this week, you are going to create a Wiki using www.wikispaces.com. You may use this assignment to set up a draft site and get a taste of how you may or may not use wikispaces for your final project. Wikispaces has a whole lot of tutorials if you don't know how things work. Click HERE to watch. You can also check the Help Page if you have more specific problems using it.

The followings are required for this assignment:

1. Create a new Wiki. Change the name of this wiki to something meaningful to your course. (You can change it in __Wiki info>settings>manage wiki__) 2. Add the following pages This is how it should look like-
 * Home
 * Overview
 * You instructor
 * Week 1
 * Week 2
 * Week 3
 * Week 4
 * Resources

3. On the "Home" page: 4. On "Your instructor" page, do the following: 5. On the "Resource" page, embed one of the Youtube videos you made for EDCT 2030 (i.e screencast, instructional movie). 6. Change your wiki permissions to "Protected" and verify your account so that everybody can view your site but only members can edit. 7. Submit the Wiki link to Blackboard. - Please test it in a new browser and make sure it is public! * If you don't want to make it public, invite me to your site through this email account tl102929@yahoo.com
 * Write an introduction to the Wiki and the purpose of the Wiki.
 * insert a picture that represents your content area to the Wiki.
 * Write a paragraph that introduce yourself as a course instructor
 * Insert a picture of yourself underneath the text
 * Resize the picture so that the picture of you is not too small/large

Note: For Contents for week 1-4 You don't need to pull any weekly contents for pages in your wiki site for this assignment- this assignment only aims to familiarizing yourself with the wiki environment.

Rubrics 100'
 * || Points ||
 * Added the required pages || 20 ||
 * Have an appropriate course name || 10 ||
 * An intro to the course on the home page || 10 ||
 * A picture inserted on the home page || 5 ||
 * An intro of the instructor of the course || 10 ||
 * a picture of you as a course instructor || 5 ||
 * Appropriate size of the picture || 5 ||
 * Embedded video on the resource page || 5 ||
 * The site is accessible to the public || 5 ||
 * Link submitted on BB || 5 ||
 * Overall functionality of the site || 15 ||
 * Overall visual appeal || 15 ||

=Blog #11= We will reflect on this week's readings and the tool- wikispaces. Consider the following questions in you blog:
 * 1) What is your perception of online collaboration? Do you think it's worth doing? Why or why not?
 * 2) How to conduct collaborative learning activities in face-to-face/online/hybrid learning environments?
 * 3) What tools have you used to facilitate online collaboration? Please share your experience or tell me your plans of using some in the future.

=Checklist= All due @5pm.
 * 1) wikispace
 * 2) Blog