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Wonderful World of Wikis
Chrissy Hellyer
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What’s a wiki?
Adam Frey, co-founder of Wikispaces, describes wikis as:
•A page with an edit button
•easy+history+groups
•Compared to a blogblog – stream of journal entries, a conversation
wiki – pages edited by groups
‘a web page with an edit button’
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http://www.wikihow.com/Main-Page
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Pedagogical Uses of the Wiki
• Lesson Summaries
• Notes Collaboration
• Introduction & Exploratory Projects
• Think-Pair-Share
• Individual Assessments (efolios)
• Classroom Organisation
From: Vicki Davis: www.coolcatteacher.blogspot.com
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Why Wikis?
• Free
• Runs on older computers
• Runs on slower internet connection
• Easy
• Technology-enabled cooperative learning
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Introduction to Wikis• Westwood School (Vicki Davis: CoolCatTeacher)
• Code Blue (Kim Cofino)
• ProjectFeelGood (K.Cofino & C.Hellyer)
• Room231 • Global Collaborations (Inspired by Learning2.0 Shanghai 09)
• Soar 2 New Heights (Y7 & Y8 Collaborative Wiki)
• New7wonders (Y7 & Y8 Collaborative Wiki)
• Room15 Wiki (Mr. Lindsay’s 6th grade classroom wiki)
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The Basics of Using a Wiki
• Creating a space
• Editing a page
• Creating a link
• Page history
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Good Wiki Habits
• Small edits
• Communicate
• Use the history
• Discuss
• Refresh before writing
• RSS feed the edits for monitoring
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Which Wiki? Free Wiki Hosts
wikispaces
PBworks
Seedwiki
XWiki
Wetpaint
(paid version only now)
(download)
(formally PBwiki)
(personal favourite)
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Classroom Considerations
• Making student accounts
• Private vrs public
• Structure vrs free-form
• Installation Options
• Policy for wiki use
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Using wikis in the Classroom
• Make a wiki with wrong information – have students correct it
• Students start a wiki on a topic – others in the class add to it
• Classroom Organisation (Hub)
• International Languages
• Maths Classroom Textbook
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Using wikis in the ClassroomCollaborative writing:• Class newspaper• Story telling• Poetry• Correcting teacher samples of writing• Classroom wikipedia
Other ideas for wikis:• Brainstorming• Group work
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Pros
• Web-based – no single student hogs the file
• Encourages collaboration
• Everyone can easily contribute & edit
• Teachers can pop in to comment or monitor progress and see the variety and level of student contributions
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Cons
• Could be vunerable to hacking
• Could inspire editing quarrels as groups negotiate content
• Only one person can edit a page at a time
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Things to Think AboutNote: Different hosting sites have different degrees of functionality.
• What type of access have you granted to your wiki?
• Is the wiki you have set up appropriate for your age group?
• Have you communicated with your parents and your principal?
• How will you address the idea of Internet safety/security for students?
• How will you monitor student activity?
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Cool Things to Embed in a Wiki• GoogleVideo, Photostory, MovieMaker• YouTube, TeacherTube – www.youtube.com www.teachertube.com/index.php• Photobucket / Flickr - http://photobucket.com/ www.flickr.com/• Blip.tv - http://blip.tv/• GoogleMaps - http://maps.google.com/maps• Clustrmaps – http://clustrmaps.com/admin/action.php• Twitter – http://twitter.com• Meebo – www.meebo.com• Voki - www.voki.com/mywebsite.php• Odeo - http://studio.odeo.com/create/home• YackPack - http://w.yackpack.net/yackpack/index.jsp• VoiceThread - http://voicethread.com/• Bubbl.us – www.bubbl.us• Bubbleshare – www.bubbleshare.com• Slideshare – www.slideshare.net• Splashcast – http://web.splashcast.net/console• Elluminate - www.elluminate.com/index.jsp• Gickr - http://gickr.com/• Airset – www.airset.com• Toondoo – www.toondoo.com• WebsitePolls - http://www.free-website-polls.com/
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Useful Links
• Wikispaces for Teachers• TeachersFirst Wiki Walk-Through• Educational Wikis• Wiki That! (Scroll down to: Good Ideas for the classroom)
• Wiki in a K-12 classroom• What’s a Wiki?• Wikis
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Questions & Answers
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Wiki Workshop Practical
Exercises 1 & 2
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Wiki Practical 1
• Register for Wikispaces
• Create a username & password
• Join this wiki
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Wiki Practical 2
• Add a title, highlight it & change to Heading 2• Bold, italicize• Add bulleted items• Add a numbered list• Insert a horizontal rule• Insert a hyperlink to your school’s website• Upload a document or photo• Find a video on TeacherTube & embed it into
your wiki
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