Wiki While You Work

Wiki While you Work
Kristin Hokanson
an introduction to wikispaces

What is a wiki….?
a website that allows visitors to add, remove, edit and change content.

What is a wiki….?
It also allows for linking among any number of pages and websites.

What is a wiki….?
It also allows for linking among any number of pages and websites.
It is easy to use and an effective tool for collaborative authoring.

How are wikis being used around the world...

What the Experts are Saying
In what's been dubbed the "wiki workplace," a growing number of organizations have begun shifting from traditional hierarchical structures to self-organized and collaborative networks, using wiki software—a basket of technologies that include wikis, blogs and other tools—to foster innovation across organizational and geographic boundaries.
Power in Numbers: How wiki software is reforming bloated bureaucracies and changing the face of communication - Newsweek, August 6, 2007

What the Experts are Saying
The information and communication technologies that are transforming media, culture, and the economy are also reshaping how companies and employees function. New social computing tools such as wikis and blogs put unprecedented communication power in the hands of employees.
The Wiki Workplace - Business Week, August 20, 2007

Who is Using Wikis?
FBI, CIA, NSA
House of Representatives
European Union
United Nations
World Health Organization
Canadian Parliament
Thousands of businesses . . .

How Businesses Are Using Web 2.0
80% reported the current use of some kind of system that shared their data with their partners on an automated basis
48% claimed that they had some kind of collective intelligence tool in place to allow employees or customers to make collective decisions
47% utilized some kind of peer to peer file sharing
37% made use of some kind of social network
32% initialized blogs for internal or external communication
21% aggregated information by using mash-ups
78% claimed that web services were the Web 2.0 technology/tool most important to their business
How businesses are using Web 2.0: A McKinsey Global Survey – July 2007

COMMON CRAFT SHOW

Web 1.0 vs Web 2.0

Philosophy of Wikis
The process is the product.
Meaning is developed and guided out of the social interactions at the point where text is created.
One of the most obvious benefits of using a wiki is the ability to offer a quick way to collaborate textually, while creating a content rich web site.
Where the knowledge of the group is greater than that of the individual, and the end product is the result of the group’s interactions.
http://www.teachinghacks.com/wiki/index.php?title=Wikis

Each Wikispace has these elements
Wiki Name
Discussion Tab Page Content Space History Nav Bar: Other pages within the wiki User Information

http://umwikiworkshop.wikispaces.com Click Join this space

http://umwikiworkshop.wikispaces.com IF YOU HAVE A WIKI ACCOUNT NOT MAKE A SPACE NOW IF YOU DON’T HAVE A WIKI ACCOUNT

To add your ideas You join a space to edit the content. Once your membership is approved you can edit the content on any page in the wiki.

Navigation Pane
The navigation on the left frame shows all of the wiki pages in the space.

Creating Pages

There are several ways to create a page in a wikispace Way #1 New Page Note: It is a good idea not to leave spaces in your page names

Task
Create a page using your name. You can use this page for any notes or information from today’s workshop.
Use an underscore or dash in place of any spaces in your page’s name

Editing Pages

Click Edit This Page

The Editing Toolbar Will Appear

Basic Editing Functions
Bold
Italicize
Underline
Font Size
Numbered List
Bulleted List
Insert Horizontal Line
Insert Hyperlink (URL)
Remove Hyperlink (URL)
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Inserting Links
If you have a website that you want to add to your page…
Click on <Edit this page>.
Highlight the text
Click on the globe icon
Choose external link
Paste the weblink from another source.

You can also create pages in the link menu Way #2 Click on Link icon

Inserting Tables
Click on the table icon
Select the number of rows and columns
Click Insert Table

Formatting Tables
Clicking on any cell in the table will open the formatting menu
Individual cells, rows, columns, and the entire table can be formatted

Inserting Special Characters
Click on the Special Characters icon
Select your character by clicking on it

Inserting Code
Click on the Insert Code icon
Select the code language from the pull-down menu
Paste the code
Click Insert Code

Adding a Table of Contents
Add this bit of html code to the top of your page
[[toc]]
The html code will pull all text designated as Heading into the Table of Contents as hyperlinks

Table of Contents
Heading 1 text will be left most justified, Heading 2 will be slightly indented, and Heading 3 will be slightly more indented, etc.

Math Formulas
LaTex support allows you to include mathematical formulas in your Wikispaces.
Wrap your LaTex formula in [[math]] tags, and you can generate a formula like this:
For a comprehensive listing of LaTex math symbols, visit
http://snipurl.com/21psr

Explaining and Tagging Page Edits
When you edit a page, you should complete the following two items (located on the bottom of your edit screen)
Note: short sentence or phrase to summarize what and why you edited the page (e.g. corrected spelling, inserted rubric, uploaded group product, etc.)
Tags: several keywords that indicate the nature/topic of your edits (e.g. Teaching The Tools, Class Contract, Podcast, etc.)

Saving Page Edits
After you have completed your edits, notes, and tags, click Save.

Task
Add some content to your page
Play around with the font, color
Add links to another wikipage, a external website.

Inserting Images and Documents
Click on the Tree icon
Click Browse to locate your file & upload it to the wiki server
Select if you want the document to be inserted as a file icon or hyperlink
Place your mouse on the page where you want your document to appear
Double click on the document’s icon on the menu
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Changing the Nav Bar
New pages are automatically added to the sidebar.
You can modify the nav bar by clicking edit navigation

Editing your page
NOTE
ONLY ONE PERSON can edit at a time. You may want to cut and paste your work from MS Word and save right away.
Use the discussion tab to communicate with a group.

Discussion Board
Reading, Creating, and Replying to Discussion Topics

To add your ideas Each page has its OWN discussion tab Click on the discussion tab to add your thoughts.

Discussing your work
Be sure your message includes a subject so people
know how to respond

Task
Reply to the discussion on the HOME page
Click on one of the pages on the left nav bar and leave a comment for another workshop participant

Other Features

Wiki-messaging

Task
send a message to someone within the workshop group

Profile

Account Settings

Task
Change your time zone and set account information
create a basic profile

Application of New Literacies
Appropriation — the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content
Multitasking — the ability to scan one’s environment and shift focus as needed to salient details.
Distributed Cognition — the ability to interact meaningfully with tools that expand mental capacities
Collective Intelligence — the ability to pool knowledge and compare notes with others toward a common goal
Judgment — the ability to evaluate the reliability and credibility of different information sources
Transmedia Navigation — the ability to follow the flow of stories and information across multiple modalities
Networking — the ability to search for, synthesize, and disseminate information
Negotiation — the ability to travel across diverse communities, discerning and respecting multiple perspectives, and grasping and following alternative norms.
Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century - Henry Jenkins

Are Wikis Safe?
Thus while wikis are very open, they provide a means to verify the validity of recent additions to the body of pages.
The most prominent, on almost every wiki, is the "Recent Changes" page—a specific list numbering recent edits and discussions within a given timeframe.
With an educational wiki, you can also change the settings so that only site members can see the page

Tracking Changes

Recent Changes: Edits

Recent Changes: Discussion

Recent Changes: Notify Me

Creating a New Wiki
Make sure you are signed into Wikispaces
Go to:
http://www.wikispaces.com/t/x/teachers100K

Managing Space

Managing your space
As the wiki site organizer, you can manage all of the following from the Manage Space link.
Name, description, copyright license
Look and feel (colors, template)
Members and permissions
Subscription

Look and Feel

Members and Permissions

Widgetize Your Wiki

Inserting Dynamic HTML: Widgets
Click on the TV icon
Select the icon that corresponds to the widget type you are inserting.
I usually select Other HTML .
Paste the Embed HTML code from your widget into the text field and click Save.

Some cool tools to embed http://www.slideshare.net http://polldaddy.com/ http://slide.com http://www.scribd.com http://www.voicethread.com http://www.xtimeline.com http://www.viygo.com http://video.google.com http://teachertube.com http://www.glogster.com

Common Questions... Photo by bast (Creative Commons License: Attribution) http: //flickr.com/photos/-bast-/349497988/

Is there an easy way to register students?
If you don't want your students to have to create accounts themselves, just email [email_address] with a list of usernames, email addresses (if you have them - if you don't just leave them out), and passwords in the following format and they’ll create the accounts for you.
user1,email1@address.com,password1
Length of Usernames and Passwords
Please make sure that usernames are at least 3 characters long (we allow letters, numbers, underscores _, or dashes -) and that passwords are at least 6 characters long.
Which Space?
Finally, make sure to let us know which spaces we should add them to as members.

MORE INFO Kristin Hokanson k r i [email_address] ht tp://www.wikispaces.com/use r/view/KHokanson Skype: kristinhokanson

http://umwikiworkshop.wikispaces.com	70
http://eclassresources.wikispaces.com	15
http://trainking.wikispaces.com	13
http://esmithnorleb.wikispaces.com	12
http://clydesavannah.wikispaces.com	7
http://ncassano.wikispaces.com	3
http://mrskingsecondgrade.wikispaces.com	2
http://www.slideshare.net	1
http://wikiwhileyouwork.blogspot.com	1
http://www.wikiwhileyouwork.blogspot.com	1

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