Faculty Spotlight: Wikis for group projects

After attending an Emerging Technologies workshop Psychology professor Lisa Scott decided to have her students use a wiki for a class project. Professor Scott selected PBwiki, a free wiki service that we recommend as one of the more user-friendly wikis. Her students used PBWiki to build informational Web resources about the effects of different teratogens on a developing fetus or embryo. Because they used a wiki, student group members were all able to access and edit the pages directly through a browser. The pages they created were also readable (but not editable) by the general public.

Student wikis:

Effects of Radiation:
http://radiationteratogen.pbwiki.com/

Effects of Lead:
http://teratogenlead.pbwiki.com/

Effects of Marijuana
http://teratogenmarijuana.pbwiki.com/

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