Wikis101

Wiki-centric Classrooms Using Wikis to Organize Teacher and Student Work Presented by Amity Beane Dirigo High School

What is a wiki? What is a wiki-centric classroom? What tools are needed What are the ethics Make your own wiki Share/reﬂect

What is a wiki, anyway? • Wiki comes from the Hawaiian word for “quick”--wiki wiki means something is done quickly • Wikis are websites that facilitate publishing and organizing multimedia • Wikis can be private and password-protected or made open and public • Wikipedia is a well-known example of how wikis are public, communal ports of knowledge • Wikispaces is a web-host for wikis that offers free private wikis to educators • Wiki-centric classrooms are being used in k-12 and higher educational settings.

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What Are Wiki-Centric Classrooms? Wiki-centric classrooms use wikis as: • A place to store data for assessment • A place to publish work • A place to organize ideas • A place to present ﬁnal drafts • A place to keep a calendar • A place to host videos and screen-casts • A place to organize photos • A place to list resources

What tools are needed for a wiki-centric classroom? • One to one computers • Internet access • Accounts with different data services • Knowledge of how the web works • Off-line instructional strategies • Assessment rubrics for ﬁnal drafts

What are the ethical issues of a wiki-centric classroom? • Teach that the network represents an ecology: something alive • The best ﬁlter is the human conscience-- teaching ethical behavior and modeling ethical behavior is essential • Teach source citation and copyright law • Protect creativity • The ﬂow of knowledge has a human side • Protect the human side

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by Amity Beane on Oct 15, 2009

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