Collaborating on the Internet with a student Wiki Developed by Susan Gaer For Annual English Teaching Conference 2009

What is a Wiki? Its focus is on collaboration. It was named by Cunningham, who remembered a Honolulu International Airport counter employee telling him to take the " Wiki Wiki " shuttle bus that runs between the airport's terminals. According to Cunningham, "I chose wiki-wiki as an alliterative substitute for 'quick' and thereby avoided naming this stuff quick-web."

Its focus is on collaboration.

It was named by Cunningham, who remembered a Honolulu International Airport counter employee telling him to take the " Wiki Wiki " shuttle bus that runs between the airport's terminals. According to Cunningham, "I chose wiki-wiki as an alliterative substitute for 'quick' and thereby avoided naming this stuff quick-web."

Features A wiki invites all users to edit any page or to create new pages within the wiki Web site, using only a plain-vanilla Web browser without any extra add-ons . Wiki promotes meaningful topic associations between different pages by making page link creation almost intuitively easy and showing whether an intended target page exists or not. A wiki is not a carefully crafted site for casual visitors. Instead, it seeks to involve the visitor in an ongoing process of creation and collaboration that constantly changes the Web site landscape.

A wiki invites all users to edit any page or to create new pages within the wiki Web site, using only a plain-vanilla Web browser without any extra add-ons .

Wiki promotes meaningful topic associations between different pages by making page link creation almost intuitively easy and showing whether an intended target page exists or not.

A wiki is not a carefully crafted site for casual visitors. Instead, it seeks to involve the visitor in an ongoing process of creation and collaboration that constantly changes the Web site landscape.

Wikis in Plain English Wikis in Plain English

Wikis in Plain English

Wiki Ideas for ESL Collaborate between 2 schools or programs book reports: students write a book report collaboratively or individually to a book report wiki brainstorming wikis: student use a wiki to brainstorm ideas for a project or assignment poetry: students compose poems together class wikis: students use the wiki as the class website school history wiki: students collaboratively write a history of the school

Collaborate between 2 schools or programs

book reports: students write a book report

collaboratively or individually to a book report wiki

brainstorming wikis: student use a wiki to brainstorm ideas for a project or assignment

poetry: students compose poems together

class wikis: students use the wiki as the class website

school history wiki: students collaboratively write a history of the school

More Wiki Ideas exercise wikis: students create exercises for each other project wikis: students use a wiki to plan a project and present their work in a wiki planning a party/barbecue/concert: students use a wiki to plan and divide duties for a class or school activity the graduating class wiki: student use a wiki to keep in touch with each other after they graduate quizzes: students construct quizzes for each other to respond to short stories: students collaboratively write and develop a short story letters to the editor: students write letters to the ‘editor’ on a current issue assigned by the teacher

exercise wikis: students create exercises for each other

project wikis: students use a wiki to plan a project and present their work in a wiki

planning a party/barbecue/concert: students use a wiki to plan and divide duties for a class or school activity

the graduating class wiki: student use a wiki to keep in touch with each other after they graduate

quizzes: students construct quizzes for each other to respond to

short stories: students collaboratively write and develop a short story

letters to the editor: students write letters to the ‘editor’ on a current issue assigned by the teacher

Organizing Students for Collaborative Writing Given the versatility of wikis, there are many possible ways of grouping students for collaborative writing projects. The following are some examples: the class as one big group; anyone can write to the class wiki the class divided into sub-groups; students write within their sub-group, but their work can be read by anyone in the class joint writing projects involving different classes joint writing projects involving different schools "community writing projects”, eg, a wiki for all students in a school or in a school district who are interested in NBA writing projects involving schools from different school districts or countries.

Given the versatility of wikis, there are many possible ways of grouping students for collaborative writing projects. The following are some examples:

the class as one big group; anyone can write to the class wiki

the class divided into sub-groups; students write within their sub-group, but their work can be read by anyone in the class

joint writing projects involving different classes

joint writing projects involving different schools

"community writing projects”, eg, a wiki for all students in a school or in a school district who are interested in NBA

writing projects involving schools from different school districts or countries.

Making a Wiki Step 1: Click on Get Started

Choose Education

Click Try it Now

Select Basic (Free)

Choosing A Name We are going to make a class wiki. Get into small groups and brainstorm names for the class wiki.

We are going to make a class wiki.

Get into small groups and brainstorm names for the class wiki.

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Add a Page and Collaborate Start working on your page now. Write you’re the address to access the Wiki on your handout Go home and add to your page! Comment on other pages Ask Me questions Let’s keep in touch with this wiki!

Start working on your page now.

Write you’re the address to access the Wiki on your handout

Go home and add to your page!

Comment on other pages

Ask Me questions