1. BY IRINA I. VASILIEVA
PH.D., ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
MOSCOW, 2012

2.  Since 2009, the Wiki was designed, implemented
and hosted with PBWorks (http://pbworks.com) –
one of the best and biggest US Wiki Providers.
Free for Educators.
 Blended Wiki Course Collaborators:
 2 and 3 year Bachelor Students at SU-Higher School
of Economics, Business Informatics Faculty,
Moscow
 Course Duration: 1 semester of 2009 a.y.

11. Besides 2 ESP Courses FRONT PAGE, the teacher
should design special page for each Course Syllabus
and Assignments.
It „s a simple Table with 4 columns named as:
Date-Syllabus-Assignments Description-Deadline
Apart of textual information, attached files and links,
the teacher can place embedded video clips and
recorded webinars as part of assignments.
Red - colored Deadlines are set on weekly basis
( from one weekly F2F class to another)

16.  Another page designed by the teacher - Grading
Grid - is for posting students Grades for every
assignment (both in class and on the site) and for
every Module.
 In this case, Exel table was used (offline) and then,
weekly updated, uploaded to the site for students
progress information.
 All students can view own grades and compare it
with others‟. If any questions, they can post them
on the comments to the same page.

19.  One of the first assignments to all students
groups was to write an essay, a BIO on their
own page, post his/her picture on another
Facebook table page and add a link to his/her
BIO page.
 Below are the samples of students pics with
links to their BIOs and samples of students
writings (essays)

27.  If you have 70 students total on the site at a time ( 4 groups of BI
students and 2 groups of SE students ) and have them writing and
posting their written works on site, you need to save your time
observing and checking their ready posts and home works.
 DO IT ON ONE PAGE ( i.e. each for 2 different courses).
 Create ROSTER table for each course
 To manage it, firstly, post brief instructions for students, arrange
a simple table for them and add some of your information as
example. That ‘s it.
 Then students should post links to their pages in the cell lines
when their homework in ready for revision.
 After that the teacher goes to his/her page via this link to revise
the work . If it’s OK ( graded) – paint the cell GREEN, if it need to
be corrected by the student – YELLOW, if it’s too bad – go RED.
 COLOR CODING OF ROSTER TABLE CELLS IS A MUST!

31.  Especially important for ESP (both BI and SE)
students is to get enough practice of native
professional EL speakers listening and
comprehension.
 So the wiki provides lot‟s of possibilities to
embed and use different authentic video clips,
webinars or webcasts on the topic.
 Video pages were firstly designed by the
teacher and then followed by the students!

33.  NOTE: Students‟ names are removed from the
screenshots and slides.
 Only fragments of their BIO essays, uploaded
pictures and slideshows are shown.
 All these pages are created and designed by
students.
 Students linked their BIOs(essays) to their own
pics or avatars on the Facebook page.

38.  Below are some samples of students written
assignments they posted on their pages and
then linked to their cell line on the Roster
 Some pages show teacher‟s editing (mistakes
are red colored, options are in blue) and
feedback comments.

44.  “Sorry, but we still have SE (IT) students on the same wiki”

61.  and no nightmare…

62. And Good Luck
in Wiki ESP/ESL Online Collaborative Courses
Designing and Teaching!
Author‟s contact email : inaviri@gmail.com