Membership

This wiki is open to the public for reading and making comments, but it may be editied only by instructors or instructional technology staff at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. You can request membership by sending an email here (please indicate your relationship to UMass Amherst).

Origins

This wiki was created in Spring 2008 as a result of converging efforts by the staff and faculty involved in the Instructional Design Sub-Committee of the Ad-Hoc Committee on Online Learning (ACOL) of the UMass Amherst Faculty Senate, the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Online Fellows Program, and the Provost's Office. We hope to engage a critical mass of interested faculty and staff who will take this wiki beyond its limited beginnings and provide the faculty and staff of UMass Amherst with an up-to-date resource and a community of peers who will support creative and perceptive use of technology in our classrooms and beyond.

Purpose of this Wiki

Because faculty and staff with strong interests in using new technologies for teaching are spread across the University (and beyond), it is our hope that this wiki can provide a central, online resource for individuals who are engaged in the topic.

• For faculty who are new to UMass Amherst or new to the use of technology, this wiki will provide an easy, up-to-date resource for them to locate information about the many tools and services that are available on campus.
• For faculty who are passionate about teaching technologies, this wiki will provide a place for them to post their own discoveries, experiences and opinions about applying technological tools in their teaching.
• For staff who support faculty, this wiki will provide a central location where they can post information about the services they provide, locate other services on campus, and engage in discourse with faculty on how technology is being applied in the classrooms on campus.

How to Contribute to this Wiki

If you are interested in participating in the expansion of this wiki, follow the instructions at the top of this page to get access to the editing features. Once you have access to the editor, simply add comments or add or edit pages to include your own discoveries and perspectives. In the spirit of a wiki, all authorship is collective, so while individual posts and edits are tagged with your username, the intent is that the final product be a group effort. If you spot a typo, fix it. If you can't find your favorite technology or campus resource, add a page about it. If you wish to take issue with a point of view on a page, use the "Comments" to start a conversation about it. The more contributors we get, the more useful and dynamic this site will become.

Our ideal would be to have at least one instructor and one instructional technology staff person monitoring each page to help keep it accurate and up-to-date. If you would like to know more about being a "page monitor" for one or more pages of the wiki see the Guidelines for Page Monitors.