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Enhancing Noyce Scholar Development with a Wiki Platform

Explore how Michigan State University's Noyce Program uses a wiki for research, evaluation, and scholar support. Discover the challenges, benefits, and contributions of this innovative approach.

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Enhancing Noyce Scholar Development with a Wiki Platform

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  1. Using a Wiki to Support Noyce Scholar Development and to Serve as a Research and Evaluation Tool Gail Richmond, Angela Calabrese-Barton, and Amal Ibourk, Michigan State University

  2. MSU’sNoyce Program • Part of a set of initiatives at our institution • Other programs include: • Urban Educators Cohort Program • Global Educators Cohort Program • Broad Scholars • Chicago Internship Program • WK Kellogg Fdn/Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellows Program (coming on board Summer, 2011) • Woodrow Wilson-Rockefeller Brothers Fund Fellowships for Aspiring Teachers of Color (coming on board Summer, 2011)

  3. Setting/Program Description • Context: Structure of MSU TP Program • Context: Noyce Program w/in TP Program • Monthly Noyce activities • PD sessions: discussion groups, speakers, workshops, sharing/critiquing resources, sharing experiences • Field trips • Wiki Postings and Discussions • Opportunities for self-nominated PD • Support during position search • identifying schools, districts • interview preparation & decision process

  4. Challenges • Making activities relevant to diverse group (by background and year in program) • Keeping tasks and resources relevant to practice and needs of Scholars (content, school placement site • Supporting Scholars at a distance (e.g., Detroit, Chicago) and in between face-to-face meetings • Creating a format that is user-friendly and in alignment with community-based nature of program • Promoting Scholar ownership

  5. Why a wiki? • Easy to design • Flexible--responsive to changing needs and priorities of group/program • Easy to update, share, control membership access and rights • Multi-modal (audio, video, print artifacts) • Institutionally supported for instruction and programmatic work • Potential as research tool

  6. Role of Program Wiki • Support of program goals • Recruitment • Responsiveness to Noyce Scholar needs • Vehicle for program evaluation • Data source for learning more about Noyce Scholar development

  7. Anatomy of the MSU Noyce Wiki • https://msunoycefellows.wikispaces.com/ • http://msunoycefellows.wiki.educ.msu.edu/

  8. Examples of Contributions (Individual & Co-Constructed) • Introduction of MSU Noyce Scholar attendees

  9. What have we learned? • Programmatic • Resource for supporting alums as they move forward in their professional trajectory • Bringing resources from the field into the university context • Provides feedback for program revision • Research: Professional Identity and Virtual Communities of Practice • Potential vehicle for expression & support of developing professional identity • Dynamic space for creating & maintaining virtual professional communities • Potential to support developing professional identity • What does it reveal about voice and authority? • Who claims space and how is expertise distributed? • What experiences are contributed and how are experiences made to matter to participants? • How is knowledge leveraged? • In what wiki spaces do these developing identities appear? What prompts matter?

  10. What changes will we make? • Retaining immediacy of teaching-related postings in two categories • Support for immediate needs • Venue for sharing strategies, resources • Creating more opportunities for fuller participation by Scholars • Posting of “dynamic teaching moments” for supportive peer critique and to track growth • Creating opportunities for alumni participation

  11. Acknowledgements • NSF Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program Award DUE-0833287 • Michigan State University Colleges of Education & Natural Science • Our 2009-2010 Noyce Phase II Scholars • Adam Alster (KY) • Stacey Ancona (MI) • Chelsey Dunning • Christina Fritz • Mattea Juengel (CO) • Amanda Pease • Liz Trexler (CO)

  12. MSU NOYCE PROGRAM WIKI http://msunoycefellows.wiki.educ.msu.edu/

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