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Synergizing Wikis, Vodcasts, And Podcasts For Collaborative Class Texts, Amanda J. Rockinson-Szapkiw, Michael Szapkiw, Justin Tiucker

Faculty Publications and Presentations

This tech-savvy generation of students, known as digital natives, desires to learn and to interact utilizing the collaborative technologies that have always been a part of their lives. The purpose of this paper and corresponding presentation is to demonstrate how a wiki can be used by students and the instructor to create a collaborative text and demonstrate how multimedia can be integrated into the texts using podcasting and vodcasting. A description of the procedures used to design, to produce, and to publish a wiki class text with integrated podcasts will be demonstrated. The challenges and benefits of using these technologies …