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= **12th Annual Massachusetts Community College Conference on Teaching, Learning and Student Development** = = April 17, 2009 = = Springfield Technical Community College = = 10:45 am - 12:00 pm =

= = =**Bill, Ted, and Gena’s excellent wiki adventure!**=

Gena Pliakas: gpliakas@rcc.mass.edu

 * Description:** This workshop is designed to show how the RCC Library use wikis to create time saving, collaborative and engaging research guides which emphasize collaborative efforts between librarians, faculty and students. Librarians, faculty and students create a true Library 2.0 tool that has been accessed over 16,000 times this year.

Our wiki guides emphasize collaborative efforts between librarians, faculty and students. RCC librarians work with faculty members on the content of the guides for their classes and solicit feed back from students who use the guides. Faculty and students have requested content be added, and message boards allow student interaction, truly making this a Library 2.0 tool.
 * Abstract:** For years the RCC Library handed out printed research guides to classes during bibliographic instruction; that is, until we discovered Wikispaces with the help of UMASS-Boston. Now, we use wikis to publish our class specific research guides, subject guides and faculty workshop guides. The use of wikis to create research guides have proven to be time saving, collaborative and engaging, not to mention a great hit with faculty and students, who have accessed them over 16,000 times this year.


 * Objective:** This presentation will include a brief introduction into wikis, and their advantages over a static webpage, a demonstration and discussion on how we use wikis at RCC to include how to embed multimedia into wikis. The workshop will discuss and show examples of how the wiki research guides are a collaborative effort between staff, faculty and students and a discussion on where we would like the collaboration to be in the future. Finally, a portion of the workshop will be set aside for hands on instruction on setting up a wiki research guide.


 * Let the adventure begin : Activity**


 * 1) Go to your new home page and Click on "Edit This Page" button.
 * 2) Type table of contents code on the top of the page. Code
 * 3) Type the name of your page (anything you want) under the table of contents. Highlight the page name and click on the pull down menu, select "Heading 1" located in the floating editor tool bar.
 * 4) Type " Wikis are fun!" under your heading and highlight it. Click on the text button [[image:text.gif width="39" height="40"]]on the floating tool bar. Change the color of the text to red by clicking on "Text Color".  Click "Apply Styles."
 * 5) Pace a horizontal line below text to divide a section by clicking [[image:hor.gif width="30" height="39"]]on the floating tool bar.
 * 6) Insert Image: go to https://rcclibrary.wikispaces.com/photo and right click on photo. Copy Photo and then return to your home page. Paste photo on to your page.
 * 7) Type : "Bill, Ted and Gena's excellent wiki adventure" and highlight it. Link by clicking[[image:link.gif width="35" height="34"]] on the floating tool bar. Click on "External Links" tab and enter this address: https://rcclibrary.wikispaces.com/TLS.Conference. Click "Add Link"
 * 8) Click "Save" on the tool bar.