1. Welcome to the Wild World of Wikis Today will be an adventure! Karin Horn, Your Guide khorn@esc11.net http://www.esc11.net/edtech/karin

2. What is a Wiki? Educator Videos Wiki Walk Through Hawaiian term “wiki wiki” means “very fast” Fast method for creating content as a group Website that permits designated individuals to jointly author and edit documents. Collection of collaboratively authored web documents No need to know HTML (web programming language)

3. Student Uses Student group work - reports, presentations Class notes refined by students/teacher Contribute research findings to a topic Constructing answers to exam questions Contribute to a writing prompt with interactive links for different story paths

4. Teacher Uses Post content, students expand Brainstorming and planning Presentation tool Develop curriculum

5. Caveats Fact or Fiction Page vandalism Intentional distortion and lies Poor grammar

6. Examples Wikipedia.org Wikimedia Projects Teach Digital, Wes Fryer David Warlick - CoLearners Wiki While You Work, Mark Wagner Adult Literacy Education Romantic Audience Project Wikitravel

7. More Examples Star Trek University of Calgary How-to manuals, wikiHow Map Projects High School Online Collaborative Writing Neighborhood Wiki Math Mazes

8. Wikispaces http://www.wikispaces.com/ http://www.wikispaces.com/examples http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teach ers100Khttp://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teach ers100K http://www.wikispaces.com/site/tour#intro ductionhttp://www.wikispaces.com/site/tour#intro duction http://horntrips.wikispaces.com/