Module Leader’s endorsement

‘I approached Oli after he gave a presentation to a staff development meeting.  I was interested in the functionality, ease of use and benefits of wikis in teaching and learning for my MSc IT students. We met and  discussed what a wiki can offer and how it might be used in the context of a module for group collaboration in preparation for a presentation. We discussed some technical options around control and monitoring, design and choice of software – namely whether to choose the in-built Blackboard tool or use the public domain PB Works.

As a result we developed and implemented an approach that began with a student workshop and guidance sheet. The students immediately took up the initiative and have used it beyond its original intentions to support other collaborative work on other modules. Oli retained an interest in the work and helped in evaluating it use. The wiki is now an established part of the module teaching and learning approach.’

Morris Williams, Module Leader, Contemporary Issues in IT Management and Practice, February 2015.

Instructions for a wiki familiarisation task I created in PBworks

I used this to help students get started using the wiki system.

Report on use of wikis for a group project by first year architecture students

I wrote this report in July 2014 following the successful deployment of PBwikis in the 1st Year Architecture studio.

Video of my presentation at the faculty’s Sharing Approaches to Learning and Teaching (SALT) seminar series

https://youtu.be/5kx1xnNdd4c

I created this graphic comparing Blackboard’s wiki tool and PBworks wiki fo use in the SALT presentation.

IBEE Conference listing

I co-delivered (with James Burch) a workshop at the ‘Innovation in Built Environment Education’ (IBEE) conference, Nottingham University in May 2014. This image shows the workshop listing in the conference programme.

 

IBEE Conference presentation – Title slide

Below is the title slide we used in our workshop.