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Undergraduate study skills and group wiki projects Teaching & Learning Conference Freya Jarman, Nedim Hassan, Jo Ashley, Tünde Varga-Atkins 23 rd June 2010

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Undergraduate study skills and group wiki projects

Teaching & Learning Conference

Freya Jarman, Nedim Hassan, Jo Ashley, Tünde Varga-Atkins23rd June 2010

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Rationale & Module Development

Creation of module University information literacy strategy; Subject specific skills sets; Issues with first attempt;

Creation of wiki task “Teaching is learning something twice”; Benefits of group work; Working outside the department.

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Teaching Sessions

Provided guidance on the wiki tool Advised students on the range of

resources that they could use when gathering information for their sites, identifying some of the potential difficulties that they might have encountered

The role of the teaching team was primarily an advisory one

Teaching sessions were used to facilitate student meetings

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Using wikis

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An example wiki

Group 1

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Discuss in groups

Whiteboard exercise

Thinking through what these meant

Study skills specific to Music students

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Listening to and analysing music

Place, environment, time, concentration, equipment

Instrumental practice – both individual and group

Organisation – time, place, maybe book?

The Liverpool Music scene

Some Examples

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Resources

Where to look

Books

Journals

Databases

Websites

How to look

Keywords

Synonyms

Boolean searching

Truncation and wildcards

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Academic, VITAL expert, Librarian

Demonstrates that we are joined-up

All able to help with general queries in sessions

Could refer to relevant expert when necessary

All contributed to assessment

Working together

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The best group wiki

Group 4

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Group wikis: creative ‘skills’ content

Group 4

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Group wikis: use of multimedia

Group 4

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Practising the skills

Group 3

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Dynamics of Student Groups Engagement with the task and groups

members’ approach to teamwork varied Many had clearly assigned individual

members specific roles and tasks Some students took on a leadership role –

delegating tasks and motivating their groups

Poor attendance and time management skills impeded the progress of other groups

Tendency for many groups to focus on planning of individual sections but not on uploading content to the actual wiki sites

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Reflections on areas for development Purpose of wiki.

Subject-specific issues.

Management of group process:

Self/Peer assessment Team building. Formative mid-semester deadline. More regular contact hours.

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Further information

Contact: Freya Jarman, School of Music