1. Inquiry Topic: Wikis in the Classroom Catherine Madnick

2. What I want from you Suggestions to narrow my focus Wiki activity/project ideas Bless, address, and press

3. Me 9 th Grade Social Studies Teacher 4th year at Monticello High School Tenure Year 14 years teaching experience including 10 at private school

4. My School Monticello High School has 1,087 students 53% white, 23% black, 21% Latino, and 2% Asian graduation rate is 68% 49% eligible for free lunch currently in Restructuring

5. My Classes 3 Core Classes: 1 inclusion, 1 regular, 1 Honors 2 AIS: Academic Intervention Services 1 Academic Focus: enrichment class taught in the library computer lab

6. What brought me to this topic? Technology in the Classroom/grad course Wikis were introduced. I tried it. I liked it.

7. The Big Picture: Web 2.0 recent change in internet use from “read only” to highly interactive web services Face Book, Twitter, My Space, wikis, blogs, remix spaces, multiplayer online games users create and share content

8. The Big Picture: Web 2.0 3 Main Components: 1.Participation=getting involved with content 2.Collaboration=working with others on content 3.Distribution=putting your stuff out there

9. The Big Picture: Web 2.0 a new mind set, a new ethos, a new practice, indeed a new world view (Knobel and Wilber, 21) In my words, it is a new gestalt (Madnick). – Content is co constructed – Non-experts can join – No single authoritative voice – Content is agreed upon by the community

10. Whatsawiki? website consisting of user-created pages connected by hyperlink pages are edited by using basic word processing tools message boards, discussion boards, internal e-mail uploads multi media

11. My Wiki bluewiki

12. In the Future There’s the possibility of being a wiki expert and training other teachers at my school.

13. Inquiry questions Are wikis fun? Do students build a wiki community? Do students show participation, collaboration, and distribution on a wiki? Can I measure participation, collaboration, and distribution? Am I a facilitator and how does that look?