As a teacher I want to offer student groups a contemporary method of evidencing their learning from inquiry-based learning activities, via a collaborative wiki development.

My students can develop a group response to an inquiry activity through developing and tracking their dialogue in a collaborative webspace. 

Example design considerations for collaborative inquiry-based learning using WordPress as a wiki:

• With WordPress integrated with CloudDeakin, there is a choice for setting up blog spaces as individual or collective spaces: site per student, site per unit, or site per group.
• To create a collaborative communication and authoring environment:
  • ‘Site per group’ allows student groups to author a blog space, thus effectively allowing for wiki functionality. 
  • ‘Site per unit’ allows for whole of cohort editing and may suit a smaller sized cohort of enrolled students.
• As part of a group inquiry activity, students can build and evidence a dialogue to respond to a complex scenario or case study, taking into account the various perspectives within the group and the various topic-related resources available to them. 

As a teacher I want to provide a platform for my students to individually create a blog or a website that is relevant to the discipline learning and allows them to demonstrate industry relevant web development and/or media communication skills.

My students can consolidate key ideas while generating a blog/website to evidence their learning and showcase contemporary workplace and digital literacy skills.

Example design considerations for website/blog production using WordPress:

• With WordPress integrated with CloudDeakin, there is a choice for setting up blog/website spaces as individual or collective spaces.
• To create an individual authoring production space, use the setting of ‘Site per student’ so that each student can maintain their individual blog or website to submit as evidence of their learning.
• Students can articulate their ideas and easily share these (e.g. in the public domain) to reflect their conceptual understanding of key ideas presented.
• Using different formats such as websites and blogs enables students to experience different software that can be used to communicate in different ways.
• Learning and assessment activities involving website/blog production can:
  • be highly authentic in disciplines where demonstrating such skills are valued by the industry
  • help toward developing digital literacy, which is an important skill for all students to build while studying at Deakin.

As a teacher I want to provide a blog platform for students to progressively collate evidence of their practical experiences, from on- or off-campus locations, and to reflect both in-practice and on-practice.

My students can collate artefacts and evidence of learning throughout the trimester to progressively demonstrate what are experiencing and learning, and support this with journal entries as they iteratively reflect in and on their practice.

Example design considerations for portfolio and journal collation using WordPress:

• An online blog can provide an easy to access site from various placement settings, for students to individually build their blog sites.
• Students can collate evidence of practical experiences and reflect in and on practice across the placement journey.
• Depending on the discipline, representations and evidence of practice may take different forms:
  • a WordPress format can allow for multiple formats including text, reports, links, video, audio, images, and more
  • some disciplines and workplaces will have different privacy requirements, which may place some boundaries around allowable evidence.
• A reflection or e-journal component allows students to articulate what they have learnt, including their conceptual understanding and personal meaning-making along the learning journey.