Sample Student Wiki for LS5333: School Library Media Center

This course in taught in the School of Library and Information Studies at Texas Woman's University. I have created this sample student wiki to give you some ideas about how you might set up your individual wiki for this course.

You can think of your wiki as an electronic portfolio and a repository or archive of your work in this course. As such, you can create pages that reflect your priorities for recording ideas, questions, and projects that you will want to return to during the course, utilize to successfully complete this course, and reuse in your future work as a school librarian.

The pages you see linked to the navigation menu on this wiki will give you some ideas of how to begin.

Notes:

A. Before you choose a wikispace, please review the wiki choices at: http://ls5443.wikispaces.com/Wiki_Tools

B.The reason I chose a pbworks wiki is because it is free and doesn't have advertisements. Wikispaces is a better choice if you intend to use the discussion feature. Other wiki options have benefits as well.

C. Each of the assignment planning pages includes progressively less information and support. This is called scaffolding. At the beginning, the teacher needs to provide more support for students' learning process to ensure their success. As the learning process continues, the teacher practices a "release of control." This means that students take more and more responsibility for organizing, directing, and presenting their work.

I'm wishing you a wonder-filled journey in wiki wonderland.

Best,

Dr. M.

Judi Moreillon, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

School of Library and Information Studies

Texas Woman's University

Denton, Texas

jmoreillon@email.twu.edu

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