Collaborating On The Internet With Student Wikis

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."

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.

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

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

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.

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.

PB WORKS Manual
http:// pbworks.com/content/supportcenter

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!

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Collaborating On The Internet With Student Wikis

by Susan Gaer on Jun 05, 2009

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