The Texas Tides Wiki Community Making Online Project Collaboration Work Susan Clarke Head of Digital

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The Texas Tides Wiki Community Making Online
Project Collaboration WorkSusan Clarke Head
of Digital Projectssclarke_at_sfasu.edu R. W.
Steen Library Stephen F. Austin State University
http//tides.sfasu.edu/
Texas Library Association Annual Conference
April 12, 2007
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The Texas Tides Project

• As part of a 2005 Institute of Museum and Library
  Services (IMLS) grant the Texas Tides project
  website continued its development.
• Part of that evolution was the creation of an
  online community to bring together the various
  elements of the project.
• Additional partners were recruited, including
  teachers from a wider geographical area.
• The partner teachers create lesson plans
  incorporating Tides materials on Resource pages
  accessible from the site.

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Understanding Teachers Needs

• Online Learning Community
• Focus Groups
• Formal and Informal Interviews
• Surveys
• Museums, K-12 teachers from the United States
  and Texas and other multi-national organizations
  and educators provide material, input and
  feedback in a variety of ways. The teachers
  travel with the Digital Projects team from
  Stephen F. Austin State University to film field
  trips in the United States and Mexico.
  Collections from diverse sources can be digitized
  for use by anyone who accesses the website.

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The Texas Tides Curriculum Development Team
(CDT) Provides for the needs of TEKS Compliant
Lesson Plans Opportunities for Teaching
Enrichment Experiences
Elementary School teachers attended a three day
long Texas Tides workshop to learn how to
integrate the program into their teaching. The
CDT teachers are creating lesson plans for the
project Website.
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Teacher Resource Web Page
The main teacher web page integrates the
different technologies used to enhance the site.
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The Online Learning Community Wiki
The Texas Tides Wiki is an online community for
teachers, educators, faculty and community
resource members who contribute to the Texas
Tides Program. Confluence wiki software
http//www.atlassian.com/software/confluence was
chosen to be used for the Tides community.
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Texas Tides Wiki User Group
There are currently twenty-four teachers,
professors, and other educational professionals
participating and contributing to the Wiki.
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Tides Wiki Community
An example of comments and interaction with a
teacher. Each community member has their own
space.
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Wiki Content
Samples of content interaction between
participants. The community can be used for
sharing resources in various mediums, commenting
on those resources, getting clarification of
resource materials, brain-storming
and lesson plan development.
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http//tides.sfasu.edu