User:Salvor References

Salvör Gissurardóttir

My contributions

I live in Reykjavik Iceland. I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Iceland, School of Education, where my field is Educational Technology and the use of computers and Internet in education. ( more information here)

My presentation from April 2008

Wikis in education (powerpoint slides in Camtasia) (The presentation is in Icelandic)

Right now I work mostly on Icelandic wikibooks. I created a project called Wikilessons - mentors in Open Learning environments (see more information http://is.wikibooks.org/wiki/wikilessons) to create learning objects about wikis for teachers and teacher education students -- more specifically, about the interaction of wikibook lessons, wikipedia articles and pictures/multimedia objects from the wikimedia Commons.

I assigned my students in fall 2007 to write one lesson in wikibooks such as this example b:is:Glerblástur (wikibook about glass blowing). The result is a collection of over 100 wikibook lessons made by students and me. These lessons are available from http://is.wikibooks.org/wiki/Námsefni

I participated in the first Wikipedia conference Wikimania 2005, where I gave a presentation about use of wikis in education, brainstorming with wikis

Abstract of my Wikimania 2005 presentation:

The author suggests in this presentation how wiki can be used in on-line distance teacher education as a brainstorming tool, peer assessment activity, and a tool to develop accessment criterias for e-portfolio based learning environment.

I participated in Wikimania 2006 in Boston and gave a presentation about wikibooks and webquests. Abstract of my Wikimania 2006 presentation:

This paper explores how educators can use Wikibooks.org and Wikipedia.org when creating constructive learning environments on the Web. Educators can design Wikibooks that link together Wikipedia articles and include student-centered and authentic inquiry-based learning tasks. These learning tasks could be Webquests. A WebQuest is a model to teach with the web that was developed in early 1995 at San Diego State University by Bernie Dodge with Tom March. A Webquest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the internet. Open content such as Webquests as part of a Wikibook can make the writing and updating of a webquest a collaborative process for teachers and can also enable learners to interact with the task -- rewriting it or making changes such as adding links to resources, maintaining link collections, providing tips and messages and adding their own findings/solutions to problems, thus changing the task for future learners travelling on the same learning path.

I have been a blogger since year 2000 and keep several blogs, some of which are in English. Here is my : Eduspaces blog . Right now my main blog (in Icelandic) is salvor.blog.is