Overview of methods and practices for using wikis in a classroom

1. Wonderful World of Wikis:
Practical Classroom Wikis
Vicki Davis, Teacher
Adam Frey, Wikispaces
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2. Go ahead Make My Wiki!
• Sign up at www.wikispaces.com
• Make a “space”
– You will be working on your own wiki during this
session.
• If you wish to join the backchannel, go to
– http://tinyurl.com/backchat
– Passcode: necc

3. Adam Frey, Co Founder Wikispaces
Wiki Basics
1. Survey Audience
2. Wiki Basics
A. What is a wiki? Editing
and the Four Tabs
B. Why is that valuable?
Simplicity and
Accessibility
C. A Quick Look at Some
Advanced Features.
Templates, Backlinks,
Wanted Pages,
Includes
D. A Sneak Peak at the
New Tag System
E. Overcoming objections:
Student accounts,
locking, etc.

11. http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com/

12. Vicki Davis, Teacher
Cool Cat Teacher Blog
Pedagogical Wiki Examples Co-Creator, Flat Classroom & Digiteen Projects
A. Elementary
B. Middle School
C. High School
D. Assignments & Templates
E. Tags
F. Wiki Collaboration &
What to do about Wiki Wars
What it means to
collaborate - right and
wrong way to collaborate.
G. Rss page to track the
wikis.
H. Handling private issues -
USING Wikimail!!
http://tinyurl.com/classwiki

13. Citing Sources
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14. Agreements citing personal
information
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22. High School
http://archive.flatclassroomproject.org

23. Click Manage Wiki

25. • My class Wiki
http://westwood.wikispaces.com

30. Prepopulated with information

31. Final Efolio
http://westwood.wikispaces.com/Miller+efolio

32. Finding work turned in – “turnin”
tag

33. Click the tag!!

34. Tags – items turned in
http://westwood.wikispaces.com/tag/view/turnin

35. Subscribe to “turnin” tag on RSS

36. My Inbox for Wiki grading is my
RSS Reader!

37. Rubric Samples
http://horizonproject2008.wikispaces.com/Rubrics

38. Tricks & Tips
• Headings
• Table of contents [[toc]]
• Making a new Page
• Embedding documents
• Embedding videos
• Fixing things – Text editor

39. Monitoring and Assessing
• Get an RSS Reader
• Subscribing to a page
• Fixing a “wiki war”
• Reverting

40. My Seven Classroom Wiki Uses
1. Lesson Summaries
2. Notes Collaboration
3. Concept Introduction & Exploratory
Projects
4. Learn Shares
5. Individual Assessments
6. Rewards
7. Classroom Organization
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41. Wiki Examples
• My 9th Grade Wiki Assignments
• Convergence Project
• Walkers Wikinomics
• Flat Classroom Project (internal link)
–Flat Classroom Wiki

42. “Selling” Wikis to Administrators
Sometimes you have to get it
unblocked!

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44. Research Supports Cooperative
Learning Strategies
• Paulson switched to
cooperative learning strategies
and saw his pass rate improve.
• Excellent summary of the
research at: Starting Point:
Teaching Entry Level
Geoscience, Science Education
Resource Center at Carlleton
College, funded by the NSF,
http://serc.carleton.edu/introgeo/cooperative/whyuse.html
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45. What is the difference?
• Passive Learning
• Active Learning
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46. Students Must Be
• Collaborators
• Synthesizers
• Explainers
• Problem Solvers!
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47. Why I chose wikis:
• Free
• Runs on older Computers
• Runs on slower Internet
• Easy
• “Think Pair Share” for the Computer
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49. Don’t change me!

50. Wiki Wars
• Edit in sm

51. Questions & Backchannel
Vicki Davis, Teacher
Adam Frey, Wikispaces
Backchat - http://tinyurl.com/backchat password: necc
Vicki’s Resources & Hyperlinks
http://tinyurl.com/classwiki

52. Eat a
watermelon

53. Not
whole!

54. Small
bites!

55. The power of Three!
Pick three