Wikis allow for collaborative teaching and learning through sharing ideas and edits to web pages. They can be used for lesson summaries with hyperlinks, gathering ideas for policies and strategies through discussion, and collaborating on notes for topics by including links to resources. Wikis disseminate information to a wider audience and track changes made by different authors. Examples of their use include a school wiki at Court Fields School for collaborative work.

1. Wikis Developing a collaborative approach to teaching and learning …

2. What is a wiki? Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki Source: http://recap.ltd.uk/wiki/Main/Guide The main aim of a wiki is.. The collaboration and sharing of ideas A wiki allows ALL authors to read , edit and write web pages – links can be included to other pages in the wiki or extenal links on the web & incorporate other docs / audio / video etc. Changes can be tracked and who has made them.

3. What can be done with a Wiki? Wikis have many possible uses including amongst others…. Lesson summaries (to include use of hyperlinks to related material) gathering and collaborating on ideas for policies or strategies (e.g. generating discussion on the new KS3 or A’level specifications) collaboration of notes – students working together to draw together notes on a particular topic area (can include and make hyperlinks to resources – including other sites on the world wide web). disseminating information to a wider audience For examples see handout e.g. Court Fields School (Somerset) – Noel Jenkins

4. “ Now, instead of making kids power down when they enter school .. why don't we let them use their mobile computing devices and iPods to continue their high-powered learning”. Source: Ewan Macintosh http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2007/03/200_minutes_a_n.html