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Team 3 Presentation. Success through Simplicity: On Developmental Writing and Communities of Inquiry; Maxwell (Wiki) Breaking up and Organizing Content: Chapter 6 (JR) Presenters: Gere Hirsch, Shannon Jones, Spencer Shields, Max Sundermeyer.

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  1. Team 3 Presentation Success through Simplicity: On Developmental Writing and Communities of Inquiry; Maxwell (Wiki) Breaking up and Organizing Content: Chapter 6 (JR) Presenters: Gere Hirsch, Shannon Jones, Spencer Shields, Max Sundermeyer

  2. Success through Simplicity: On Developmental Writing and Communities of Inquiry • Spencer Shields Presenting

  3. Success through Simplicity • The virtue of absolute architectural simplicity pays off in the real-world • Unlike a blog, a wiki focuses on the group instead of the individual • The medium of a wiki works most effectively when students can assert meaningful autonomy over the process.

  4. Educational Wiki • A wiki is a body of writing that a community is willing to know and maintain • The original WikiWikiWeb was not designed as educational technology • Idea was simply to distribute the task of assembling the collection of software “patterns” • As this collection grew, they system grew to allow anyone to add and edit content • It was the simplest thing that could possibly work

  5. Perspective Technologies • Research gains strength by bringing together both the discordant and the harmonious • Gains strength by providing a forum for variance and diversity • Successful wiki sites, like WikiWikiWeb or Wikipedia, are fundamentally “ongoing” • A wiki captures or presents the evolving now of a discourse community

  6. Using a wiki in classrooms • Our gradual adoption of the wiki has been a response to the unsustainable complexity and inflexibility of many existing tools and platforms • Use of the wiki crept in gradually as an experiment in supporting group work • Big challenge is that of scaling up the notion of “radical trust”— an essential feature of wiki-enabled communities • Experimentation with wikis in the classroom has been entirely positive and successful

  7. Wiki Writing Success through Simplicity: On Developmental Writing and Communities of Inquiry Maxwell and Felczak • Gere Hirsch Presenting

  8. CSILE • CSILE, a knowledge forum database • Apple Computer provided support for introducing CSILE into schools. • It was used in Toronto schools for five years, as well as in an elementary school in Oakland, CA

  9. Constellations • Ricki Goldman's Constellations system. This video ethnographic tool • Evolved into Orion, an online digital video tool. • The goal of Constellations and Orion is to create a collaborative environment.

  10. CaMILE • An early creation of Mark Guzdial's. He started it at Georgia Tech in 1993. This was prior to graphical interfaces. • It was followed by several other projects, including CoWeb and Swiki. • Today, Guzdial says that computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) is relevant for today’s MOOCs and other on-line learning experiments. (http://computinged.wordpress.com/2012/10/16/what-i-have-learned-about-on-line-collaborative-learning/)

  11. Radical Trust • “Radical Trust : A notion that influence, rather than control, is more effective at guiding culture, commerce and communities. ” http://www.radicaltrust.ca/about/

  12. Scaffolding • Scaffolding has been defined by Wood, Bruner, and Ross (1976) as an “adult controlling those elements of the task that are essentially beyond the learner's capacity, thus permitting him to concentrate upon and complete only those elements that are within his range of competence.”

  13. Writing Intensive Learning • Writing-intensive learning program is divided into two methods: • writing to learn course material, and • learning to write.

  14. Unanticipated Wiki Uses • Students read the work of other students • They used the wiki as a source of ideas, insights, potential counterarguments. • Search sources and writing relevant to their own topic. • Referenced other students' work • Created a collaborative study guide

  15. Breaking up and Organizing Content • Shannon Jones Presenting

  16. Letting Go of the Words: Chapter 6 • Overview • Content • Organization • PDF’s • Conversation

  17. “Information,” not “document”Redish: 102-104 • Websites are places to obtain information. Not a place for lengthy documents. • Websites must keep only the information needed; No Fluff. • Break information down into “index cards”. Create links for information to create smaller webpages.

  18. How much to put on one web page?Redish: 113-119 • Only the information the site visitors want. No extra information is needed or wanted. • Webpage length: Scrolling is OK. Only three to four scrolls per page. Anything more you run the risk of losing interest. • Download Time: Keep in mind not everyone has Broadband connection speeds. Don’t put in to much information. People with dial-up will not be happy if they have to wait for a page with to much information. • Printing matters: People don’t want to print 50 page documents. Only the information they need that will fit on one or two print pages. • Technology matters. Keep in mind the social media and smart phone users.

  19. PDF’s: When to UseRedish:120 • Paper’s • Journal articles • Reports • Fillable Forms • Or anything else a user might print that is suited for paper based use.

  20. PDF’s: When Not to UseRedish: 121 • When the visitor only wants quick information. They don’t want a full article to trudge through. • The visitor’s are on primarily mobile devices. PDF’s are not fun to read on a smart phone. • The visitors have no need to print. • The visitors don’t know how to use a PDF reader. Not everyone knows how to sift through a PDF file to find what they are looking for. • If you want your site to be focused on accessibility; don’t use PDF’s. Information is not easily accessible in a PDF file.

  21. Breaking up and Organizing Content • Max Sundermeyer Presenting

  22. Dividing Your Content Thoughtfully • Think of the questions that people ask when coming to you site. • Use “I” and “my” questions near the front of your website. • Dividing our content by topic or task • Topics are categories of information that are natural groupings for people’s questions. • Tasks answer the “How do I…?” questions. • Topics lead to tasks. • You must consider how much of one topic or task to put on a webpage so you do not overwhelm the user.

  23. Dividing Content by Product and Information Type • Separate different products or services on your website. • Examples: Best Buy, Target, Home Depot • Dividing information by type is often a successful strategy. • Make sure site visitors can easily move around related information. • Successful links – both ways • Policies and procedures pages • Move the conversation ahead through your sites links

  24. Dividing Content by People • Useful if your site offers a lot of different products or services. • Some site information might be useless to certain groups. • Have your users self-identify on your site • Does pose risks • Forces you to make assumptions about site visitors • Forces site visitors to make assumptions about themselves • In order to have a successful conversation, people must identify with the correct group. • Forces the visitor to think right away. • They may start down the completely wrong path if they choose wrong.

  25. Risks Continued • It is crucial that you use terms that won’t offend anyone. Otherwise, they may not want to identify with that group • We may not use the same language as our site visitors. • We assign different meanings to words, category titles • Each visit to your site is a separate conversation. • People will change their level of knowledge the more they visit your site, forcing them to identify with different groups multiple times.

  26. Dividing Content by Events and Time Sequence. • Some site content is based off time periods in people’s lives. • Sites on retiring or having a baby • Specific audiences • Dividing content by time sequence is effective for helping people navigate through a decision • Buying a home

  27. Putting it Together • Information architecture is a critical part of your content strategy. • Learning how to effectively organize your web content allows for smoother conversations with your site visitors. • Web content can be divided in many different ways. • It is critical that you know your audience • Know what you offer! • Some sites divide content using multiple techniques. • Risky but can be effective when done right. • Example: Verizon Wireless - www.verizonwireless.com

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