(Hawaiian for fast) "Wiki" is a backronym for "What I Know Is" A Cool Tool to enhance Student Learning
What is a Wiki? wiki A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who has permission to access it to contribute or modify its content. Wikis Wikis are collaborative websites. A wiki is a website where users can add, remove, and edit every page they have been given access to using a web browser 2
How can a Wiki help with 21 st Century Skills? Learning and Innovation Skills o Communication and Collaboration Life and Career Skills o Social and Cross-cultural Skills Information, Media and Technology Skills o ICT (Information, communication & technology) Literacy 3
Looking at it another way… 4 Click on link below to see video
Soooo... How can they be used? Classroom Webpage- posting assignments Forum for writing Build Classroom Community online Communication for students Use with other teachers to share information 5
6 Common Websites with free Wikis for teachers: –PBWorks –Wikispaces We use PBWorks at the Middle school. I like it better than wikispaces
7 An Example… Social Studies Current Events Project – John Deserto, Middle school Student posting: Students can upload pictures, videos, write text, include links to websites, insert glogs, widgets, etc. Teacher can put project information into wiki
8 An Example continued… Social Studies Current Events Project Students and teacher can comment on student work Teacher can monitor comments and student work Teacher controls user privileges – writer, editor, view only or make administrator. PBWorks generates usernames and passwords for students under teacher account.
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10 Create Your Own cont. Go back to moodle for more information on how to create your own account.
Resources Wikispaces example and information about wikis n%20and%20Stand%20Forhttp://spacewithapurpose.wikispaces.com/Wikis+Home#What%20Does%20Wiki%20Mea n%20and%20Stand%20For? Web 2.0 Tools for the Wiki speaking avatarwww.voki.com uploaded videoswww.schooltube.com build cartoonswww.toondo.com create and embed pollswww.polldaddy.com Glogsterhttp://edu.glogster.com/ 11