WikiEducator is a community of Educators. One of our core community values is the belief that educational content is unique (i.e. it is different from other forms of content). An educational resource is different in terms of its purpose, structure and format when compared, for example, to a newspaper article, or a novel.
Those of you with experience in distance education will be familiar with the educational elements that are embeded in our teaching materials. For example, learning objectives and in-text activities etc. Working through our WE tutorials you would have noticed the special layout we use for learning objectives, discussion activities, teaching tips. In our wiki jargon, we call these pedagogical wiki templates. Templates are pre-designed to save you time with more complex layouts required of instructional materials.
Today you will learn how to set up these pedagogical templates into your pages.
Instructions:
1) Work through Tutorial
9 on Creating and Using Pedagogical Templates.
2) Insert at least one pedagogical template on your user page, this
will be required later for your certification as a Wikibuddy
under the WikiMaster
programme on WikiEducator.
Tip:
Here is a comprehensive list of all the Pedagogical
Templates. You can download a cheatsheet for Pedagogical Templates here