Wiki in web 2.0 scenerio concept emerged as a response to the technologies and setting the libraries into more user-centered, networking faculty, students, and librarians to create a vital and evolving organization designed to meet the need of the of the user in digital library era.
1 WIKIS IN HIGHER EDUCATION: THE CONSTRUCTIVIST LEARNING PARADIGMThiyagu K
Wikis are a very versatile and easy-to-use tool that is finding increasing applications in teaching and learning. Wikis are largely used in education for both teaching and learning. Wikis can be used in the classroom to support many learning approaches. Learning approaches that could most be supported by wikis are collaborative learning and the constructivist learning paradigms. A wiki is a web page that can be viewed and modified by anybody with a web browser and access to the internet. This means that any visitor to the wiki can change its content if they desire. While the potential for mischief exists, wikis can be surprisingly robust, open-ended, collaborative group sites. This paper deals about the characteristics of wiki, wiki as a learning tool and uses of wiki in education. This paper also explains the concept of STOLEN principles for using wiki in higher education.
A wiki is free, functional and fabulous. This presentation will reveal how a wiki-centric classroom can easily be developed to provide a constructivist tool for collaboration, communication, publishing, presentation and assessment. Topics covered include the nuts and bolts of setting up a wiki, ideas for classroom use and best practice use of wikis internationally. The Edublog 2006 award winning wiki “Flat Classroom Project” will be featured along with a discussion of how to integrate Web 2.0 tools into the wiki environment.
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A (University Laval) presentation about WikiWork as an adjunct to BOLD and Elluminate to 2 campuses in Monterrey, Mexico in Nov. 2009. Please note that references-sources are cited in the notes under the slide in question
Engaging And Motivating Writers with Wiki ePortfolios
What are wikis
1. What are Wikis?
What are Wikis?
A wiki is a database of pages which visitors can edit live.
The building blocks of wikis are the “comments” from visitors.
You can generally edit a page in real time; search the wikis content,
view updates since your last visit. In a “moderated” wiki, wiki owners
review comments before addition to the main body of a topic.
Explanations made easy look at
http://www.commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english
A wiki makes it easy to swap ideas and information on projects –
whether for a family vacation or a complex business enterprise. A wiki
increases creativity, expertise, and productivity all around.
Wikis end the waste of ricocheting emails and communication
breakdowns – wikis literally get everyone on the same page.
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2. What is a social NetWork?
A social network is a website, or network of websites specifically
established to allow end users to communicate directly with each other
on topics of mutual interest (www.onlinematters.com/glossary.htm.)
Below are just a few:
Why include social networking in Teaching?
Social networking sites are a central activity for younger learners,
especially teenagers.
Social networking has many educational possibilities:
1. Learners to create their own profile page.
2. Learners can post messages to each other.
3. Learners can participate in a collaborative project.
4. Learners can create and share virtual objects.
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