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Download full textMcKenzie, Brian – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2023
Collaborative worldbuilding is an ideal digital writing project for promoting critical thinking about contemporary issues, developing and applying disciplinary expertise writing transfer, and building digital literacies. In the context of the global COVID-19 pandemic where the student experience was characterised by isolation, collaborative…
Descriptors: Games, Collaborative Writing, Cooperative Learning, Student Projects
Direct linkMcKenzie, Brian; Brown, Jonathan; Casey, Denis; Cooney, Adeline; Darcy, Eamon; Giblin, Susan; Ní Mhórdha, Máire – College Teaching, 2018
Wikipedia can serve as an effective, engaging tool for teaching key information literacy skills. This article examines the experience of seven faculty members and over four hundred students who edited Wikipedia as part of a first-year seminar. We review the literature surrounding the pedagogical value of Wikipedia and then discuss our goals in…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, Information Literacy, College Faculty, College Freshmen
Knoester, Matthew; Gichiru, Wangari P. – Journal of International Social Studies, 2014
The University of Evansville, like many universities, requires a seminar for all incoming first-year students to prepare students for college-level writing, along with the reading and discussion of challenging texts. Often, these courses share particular books to allow in-coming students to share a "common experience." This article…
Descriptors: Democracy, First Year Seminars, Social Studies, Foreign Countries
