A wiki is a website that allows collaborative editing of its content and structure by its users. The document discusses how wikis can be used for collaboration in education, providing an example of its use in an ELEP writing course where students contributed to and edited a Wikispaces site. Students were assigned to work in groups on the Wikispaces site to add and improve content for different lessons over the course of the course.

1. WIKIS Wednesday 23 May 11:00 – 12:30 A302

2. Wikis 1. What is a wiki? 2. How can it be used? 3. How a wiki has been used in an ELEP course? 4. Your turn!

3. Wikipedia Wikipedia Collaboration History function Edit and Add information PolyU entry Edit for 24 th February 2007

4. Usefulness of a Wiki? Collaboration between users ‘ History’ function Editing and Adding information Fully exploited?

5. Wikis in Education Wikipedia banned Wikispace example Marked for writing on Wikipedia

6. Wikispaces Free to use site Advertising Tendency to hang!

7. ELEP Write 5 13 students enrolled 7 completed Basic Writing skills 22 hours

8. ELEP and Wikispaces ELEP Write Wikispace Members and Permissions New Page Lock Page

9. ELEP Write5 Wikispace History Function Lesson 1, Group 2 Discussion function Lesson 6 Fairy Tales Frederick Matthew and Jacky

10. Student Feedback Wikispaces Blogger (semester 1) Blogger (semester 2)

11. Your Turn http:// polyuelc.wikispaces.com / Work in groups Use the username / password that you are given to log in 5-10 minutes to express your ideas Then move on to the next page Read, Edit, Add, Improve