example of using the group wiki tool in a virtual learning enviroment

Miles Weaver

1. 1. Click on group wiki tool in

blackboard

2. 2. Select your tutor

3. 3. Find your wiki group

1. Click on the group wiki tab

2. Select your tutor

3. Select your group wiki

1. Prepare each tutorial case using the wiki with your group Share the workload (e.g. questions)

Collaborate and share answers

Add material from different members to one page

You may wish to use your wiki in class (technology dependent)

Arrange meetings and share contact details

Record feedback

2. Work has a team to prepare, analyse and share information for each assignment

Assignment 1: Identify management issues, research and analyse each management topic together

Assignment 2: Form the report and its contents together as a team

Exam: From the wiki content prepare a dossier on management and strategy issues so that it can support you to apply theory to practice in the open book exam

You may wish to use your wiki in class to communicate

your findings on each tutorial case and the organisation

you have chosen to study for each assignment.

Receive feedback from peers and tutors

Add your research

Prepare your assignment

Share material

Add your analysis so that you can

obtain feedback

Collect and add your news items on

each organisation

Analyse each tutorial case together has a group.

You can add detail at different times and

locations.

Another example of how the wiki has been used to

prepare for tutorials

Another example of how the wiki has been used to

prepare for tutorials

Record feedback from tutors

Arrange meetings

Make observations that you wish to share

Discuss work plans

View page history

Make revisions and undo previous work

Monitor who has contributed sections of the page

Record any feedback from your tutor and

draw some useful lessons for the future

Wiki structure will include pages on tutorial answers and

any pages you have added to conduct your assignments

You can print parts of your wiki to form the dossier

of papers you may take into the exam

You will find that by applying the theory to practice you are actually an ‘actor’

applying the theory for real. E.g:

Do you need to motivate someone in your group, how?

Has a leader emerged, why?

How did your group form, were there any issues?

What are the dynamics in your group?

To answer each of these questions you could use management theories (e.g.

Maslow, Belbin) – This is exactly what we wish you to reflect on in your pre-

appraisal report!!!

Why not blog about it over the duration of the module, you will soon see what

you have learnt and the skills gained ...

The aim of the wiki is to make learning

management and strategy theory fun, apply it in

a collaborative environment and encourage

students to share good practice.