The document discusses wikis and their uses for education. It begins with common questions about wikis, explaining that they are websites that allow anyone to easily create and edit pages without technical skills. It then outlines several benefits of wikis for classrooms, including facilitating collaboration on group projects, serving as platforms for discussion boards and study guides, and allowing students to create online stories and glossaries together. The document also provides step-by-step instructions for setting up wikis using the Pbwiki platform and introduces other related web 2.0 tools like blogs, podcasts, and social bookmarking.

1. The Wide World of Wikis Benjamin Curran University Prep Academy November 1, 2007 http://upa.curran.googlepages.com http://mrcurran.pbwiki.com

3. Part One: Wiki FAQ

6. Q: How come I’ve never heard of wikis before? Oh, but you have…

7. wikipedia.org

8. wikitravel.org

9. wikihow.com

10. wikianswers.com

11. wikiquote.org

12. Q: Ben, this is all fairly interesting, but you still haven’t answered this important question: WHY WIKI???

13. Reason #1: It makes life easier. Work smarter, not harder.

14. Scenario: Life Before Wikis Your group project is due this week. You and your colleagues have each worked hard on your separate parts. But how will you put it all together into one final product???

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16. Scenario Two: Life With Wiki With that same project, team members can post their individual work to a wiki, edit it together, and share the work of creating the final product

17. WIKI Source: blogswikisandmore.pbwiki.com

18. Reason Two: Which century are you preparing your students for?

19. That one???

20. Or this one???

21. This ain’t your father’s Oldsmobile World Wide Web. 20 th Century = Web 1.0 21 st Century = Web 2.0

26. Reason #3: What kind of learners do you want to grow?

28. Time for questions…

29. Part Two: Teacher Uses

33. Time for questions…

34. Part Three: Classroom Uses

39. Online Storytelling Promote creativity and collaboration by creating online stories, complete with images and/or illustrations.

40. Example: Choose Your Own Adventure Source: http://terrythetennisball.wikispaces.com/

43. Study Guide Example Source: http://studyingsocietiesatjhk.pbwiki.com/

47. Time for questions…

48. Part Four: Wiki How-To

50. My Wiki Farm of Choice:

53. Edit page

54. Which gives you the Point-and-Click Editor…

55. And the Save button… Without it, your changes won’t be made!!!

57. Other important PBWiki Buttons…

58. Add a page to your wiki…

59. Images

60. Links Just highlight the text that you want to become a link (either to a page on your wiki or to an outside URL) and click this button.

61. Plug-Ins…

65. Time for questions…

66. Part Five: Web 2.0 Tools to Use

68. My Favorite: del.icio.us

71. A Great Podcasting Resource: EPNWeb.org

72. Video Sharing—Beyond YouTube

73. Last chance…