Welcome to the UNOH Faculty Wiki!

We are glad you decided to CHECK OUT OUR WIKI!

This is meant to be a collaboration of thoughts and ideas for
the betterment of our profession.

Finding Pages!

Click on the desired links below!

Who are the College
Students of Today

Faculty on Facebook - What Do You Think??

ANIMOTO Examples

Scrapblog

Ideas for UNOH

Interactive Software - things like Interactive Jeopardy
Test Reviews

WIKI Dos and Donts

Discussion Forum
Ideas

MIC Training Options and Schedule

Audio Clip Creation

How are you using
Audio - add your ideas here

Adding Youtube videos to PowerPoints

What is a WIKI

WebEnhanced Ideas - add your ideas
here!

VC Course Set Up and Design

Second Life

Screen Shot creation

Adding Video or Web Links to your Power Points

Set up an RSS feed to our Wiki!

Angel Audio
Announcements

About UNOH The University of Northwestern Ohio was founded in 1920. It is a
private, not-for-profit institution. The University of Northwestern Ohio is a
co-educational institution authorized by the Ohio Board of Regents to grant
master’s degrees, baccalaureate degrees, and associate degrees. We are
located in Lima, Ohio and serve a student body of approximately 4000. We have two
separate colleges on campus, the College of Business and the College of
Technologies. The College of Technologies offers degrees in auto, diesel,
agriculture and heating and cooling.

UNOH Faculty Because of the variety of disciplines represented at UNOH, the faculty come from very different backgrounds so creating a
tool that is useful to these diverse curricula is a goal. We have approximately
100 full time faculty with about 75% of them representing
the College of Technologies.

Why a Wiki Page? Our goal was to define a place for
faculty to brainstorm collectively, share knowledge and expertise, practice
multimedia strategies, and communicate with other faculty. We wanted a way to
educate faculty regarding the technology available to enhance teaching and
learning in their classrooms. We found that the best way to introduce a new
technology to faculty is to involve them in using it outside of the classroom
first. We created a Faculty Wiki to help faculty become more comfortable with
using Wikis as a forum for sharing and collecting knowledge.

The Outcome

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Faculty have joined us in
discussions regarding student-related issues.

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They have also tried out some of the technologies and also
uploaded their own examples that they hope to use in the classroom.

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Faculty are becoming more
involved and interested in implementing these technologies into their own
classrooms.

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Instances of resistance by some faculty members have decreased and
evolved into curiosity.

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An increasing number of faculty are
interested in attending training sessions on the use of various technology
applications.

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With the help of the faculty, we have created an extensive
resource with many perspectives and ideas for using technology in teaching and
learning.

The CHECK OUT MY WIKI Campaign

In an effort to advertise the Wiki and increase the user
traffic, we created the Check out My Wiki Campaign. We had t-shirts designed
with our UNOH Logo and the Faculty Discovery name on the front with the words,
"CHECK OUT MY WIKI" on the back. These shirts were given to all
members of the MIC Committee to wear at one of our annual all -faculty workshop
days. The shirts caused quite a buzz (and much good laughter). We presented a
quick overview of the Faculty Wiki, how faculty could contribute and benefit
from the wiki, and we promised a wiki t-shirt to all faculty who contributed to
the wiki. Over the next two weeks, the wiki traffic exploded with over 25
faculty contributing to the wiki. To date, we have had almost 40 faculty
members contribute to the wiki.

To continue to promote the wiki, we recognize faculty
contributions at faculty meetings. We also recently had a CHECK OUT MY WIKI
T-SHIRT DAY. All the faculty who had a wiki t-shirt
were invited to wear the t-shirt to campus that day. We had many participants.

CHALLENGES

One of the challenges we had was helping faculty get over the
hurdle of being afraid to "mess something up" on the wiki. Many of
our faculty were not used to Web 2.0 and commented that they had things to
contribute, but didn't want to do it "wrong." To combat this
challenge, we presented at a faculty meeting to show all the ways one could
contribute. We showed how to add and edit text, and we also showed how to
simply add a comment to a page. We also promised them that it is impossible to
"break the wiki." We have been encouraged by faculty getting on the
wiki to add comments after that presentation.

Another challenge is trying not to overwhelm faculty with too
much information. We have, time and time again, encouraged faculty to browse
the wiki to get one idea for one class and to start small. Many of our faculty
who have been successful in making adjustments to
their teaching style have been faculty who decided to try just one thing. Once
they see the success in student learning - as well as how easy it truly is to
use technology - they have continued on trying more and more things. Faculty
testimonials from the "usually not so techno-savvy" holds much weight
with the rest of the faculty who may not be as eager to try new things.