This session demonstrates a wiki developed for my classes over time that colleagues in my teaching context started collaborating with, and how I created a wiki to help my colleagues create their own, in such a way that it modeled how learning can be facilitiated through a wiki, at http://kbzpd.pbworks.com

1. Flipping the Flip:
Organizing students around a wiki
and training colleagues to do
likewise
Fall Blog Festival Sept 21, 2014
Vance Stevens
HCT / CERT / KBZAC Al Ain UAE

2. My slides are always posted
at Slideshare.net
http://slideshare.net/vances
I’ve noticed that in the first few slides on sets posted at
Slideshare.net the hyperlinks don’t work. So, there are
some intro slides here to work around this problem.
http://www.slideshare.net/vances/fall-blogfest2014

3. Combined Learning2gether
and Fall Blog Festival 2014 event
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4. Learning2gether:
Free Weekly Online PD
http://learning2gether.
net/
All Learning2gether
events are indexed
here
http://learning2gether.
pbworks.com/w/page/
34456755/archiveindex
This presentation is
done as a regular
weekly
Learning2gether event
as well as an event in
the Fall Blog Festival
2014
http://learning2gether.net/2014/09/21/learning2gether-with-the-fall-blog-festival/
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5. Toolkit for Shared Learning
This is part of an ongoing PD blog initiative where I work
http://toolkit4learning.blogspot.ae/2014/09/organizing-students-around-wikis-and.html
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6. Flipping the flip?
• I use a wiki with my students where I teach at
http://kbzac.pbworks.com
• Colleagues have started to appreciate using the
wiki in courses we teach mutually
• I have been asked to help train teachers to
create their own wikis at
http://kbzpd.pbworks.com
• As I teach my colleagues I model how a wiki can
archive the learning in such as way as to train
others who might use it later in a flipped context
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7. Flip-as-You-Go
This begs the question
• Is it best to prepare the course in advance
(so that students can theoretically use it to
prepare beforehand?)
• Or to create the course as you teach it?
(You explain, demonstrate, archive what you
did at the end of each lesson)
• Or both?
This presentation is an examination of the latter
approach, a sort of Flip-as-You-Go method
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8. Fall Blog Festival Recording Link
This presentation was recorded in WizIQ
Click on picture to access the recording
This session demonstrates a wiki developed for my classes over time that colleagues in my
teaching context started collaborating with, and how I created a wiki to help my colleagues
create their own, in such a way that it modeled how learning can be facilitiated through a
wiki, at http://kbzpd.pbworks.com
Vance Stevens Fall Blog Fest 2014 rev.24/9

9. Why this works for students
• Clear assignments
• Clear tasks with
links to course
documents, other
materials, media,
and online spaces
used
• Archive of past
assignments
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10. Introducing
http://KBZAC.pbworks.com
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11. Affordances for teachers
• Clarity in setting up courses so others may
follow them
• Create record of syllabuses taught, useful
when repeating similar courses
• Create library of materials used; media,
documents, etc.
• Open and shareable
– Can share resources by links
– Can GOOGLE for resources
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12. Open and shareable
• A colleague remembered I had set up
instructions for students to download and
install Audacity
• She asked me where are they?
• (I didn’t know offhand; it’s an organically
developed site)
• I suggested we Google “kbzac” and “audacity”
• We were feeling lucky  Bingo!
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13. Open means
you can
Google it
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14. How best to deliver
materials for a new course
• I am a teacher on a newly restructured aviation
English course
• Welter of new materials drove colleagues to explore
online spaces to organize resources; e.g.
– Dropbox
– Google Drive
– Google Docs
– Showbie
– LAN
– WIKI !!
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15. Some preferred the Wiki Way
• Small team used my wiki for collaboration on
course development and implementation
– We could set up common materials, notices,
assessment strategies on one page
– Each team member could have own page
– Facilitated sharing because wiki members
uploaded files to the wiki (each has a link)
– From the wiki we could link to spaces others were
using (though not the other way around )
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16. Introducing
http://KBZPD.pbworks.com
Other teachers wanted to use the wiki approach
• I started teaching them by creating a wiki
where I could archive lessons so others could
catch up
• The archive can then morph into a flipped
lesson
• This models approach to online course design
that teachers could adopt in creating their
own wikis organically for students
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17. http://kbzpd.pbworks.com
This presentation is
about the modeling
 This is the space where the modeling was done
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18. Wiki approach to designing blended
learning environments
• Develop your site as a tutorial
• Lots of links to
– resources subsumed under tutorial
(annotated, not just list of resources)
– Other participants’ wikis to showcase other’s work
and promote collaboration
• Illustrate concepts with screen shots from Jing
– Get it free from http://jingproject.com
• Set headings (H1, H2, etc) to create Table of
Contents
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19. Drawbacks to wikis
• Text-ish
• Navigation needs to be designed
• Clunky placement of graphics
• HTML sometimes needed to correct bugs in
wiki display
(This can be an affordance!)
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20. Affordances of wikis
• Revision history, can revert to previous versions
• Sidebar and Table of Contents to facilitate
navigation
• Education resources stored at the wiki
– Each resource has a link
– File sharing; others can download
• From the wiki itself or
• from those links
– generous space allocation
• HTML can be used to augment, embed, etc.
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21. Revision History
An old page from
development of this wiki
is used to illustrate how
to generate a Table of
Contents
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22. Why Table of Contents?
This is from
Revision History
This is the
current pager
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23. How to create a Table of Contents
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24. Finding my workshop on Link Loops
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25. Why Link Loops?
http://vanceposterous.wordpress.com/2012/06/13
/teaching-teachers-how-to-create-simple-link-l/
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26. What are link loops?
• Not everyone understands the concept of
hyperlinking, so in training we may have to
start there
• Link to from a teacher’s portal to anything
else, and from there link back again
Find this explained here in KBZPD wiki
http://kbzpd.pbworks.com/w/page/85843726/purpose_page
#Section2hasthreepartsletscallitLinkLoops
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27. Example link loop …
This portal http://tinyurl.com/ncpd2012june
Loops back
to here
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28. Just in Time vs. Just in Case
Modeling evidenced in what a colleague created
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29. Thanks for your interest in this
presentation by Vance Stevens at
the Fall Blog Festival, 2014
More information about this presentation from
vancestev@gmail.com
• http://www.slideshare.net/vances/fall-blogfest2014
• Learning2gether:
http://learning2gether.net/2014/09/21/learning2gether-with-
the-fall-blog-festival/
• WizIQ recording - http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/
2092922-fall-blog-festival-organizing-students-and-teachers-
around-a-wiki