The document discusses using wikis to organize teacher and student work in a "wiki-centric classroom", where wikis are used as a place to store and publish student work, organize ideas and resources, and present final drafts. It provides information on what wikis are, examples of wiki use in education, the tools needed to implement a wiki-centric classroom approach, and important ethical considerations around privacy, source citation, and protecting creativity when using wikis. The presenter encourages attendees to create their own wiki to experience the approach firsthand.

1. Wiki-centric Classrooms
Using Wikis to Organize
Teacher and Student Work
Presented by Amity Beane
Dirigo High School

2. What is a wiki?
What is a wiki-centric classroom?
What tools are needed
What are the ethics
Make your own wiki
Share/reflect

3. What is a wiki, anyway?
• Wiki comes from the Hawaiian word for “quick”--wiki wiki means something
is done quickly
• Wikis are websites that facilitate publishing and organizing multimedia
• Wikis can be private and password-protected or made open and public
• Wikipedia is a well-known example of how wikis are public, communal ports
of knowledge
• Wikispaces is a web-host for wikis that offers free private wikis to educators
• Wiki-centric classrooms are being used in k-12 and higher educational
settings.

4. Wiki Examples
Dirigo World Languages
MSAD21 Spanish
Vicki Davis

5. What Are Wiki-Centric Classrooms?
Wiki-centric classrooms
use wikis as:
• A place to store data for assessment
• A place to publish work
• A place to organize ideas
• A place to present final drafts
• A place to keep a calendar
• A place to host videos and screen-casts
• A place to organize photos
• A place to list resources

6. What tools are needed for a
wiki-centric classroom?
• One to one computers
• Internet access
• Accounts with different data services
• Knowledge of how the web works
• Off-line instructional strategies
• Assessment rubrics for final drafts

7. What are the ethical issues of
a wiki-centric classroom?
• Teach that the network represents an ecology: something alive
• The best filter is the human conscience-- teaching ethical behavior and
modeling ethical behavior is essential
• Teach source citation and copyright law
• Protect creativity
• The flow of knowledge has a human side
• Protect the human side

8. It’s time to make your wiki .....

9. Share/reflect