1. Making Wikis Work For You -- Fast Dr. Lesley Farmer California St. Univ. Long Beach

2. Criteria for Choosing Technology Teaching Tools Content Authenticity Ease of use Versatility Relevance Interest Constructivism Assessment

3. Wiki (wiki): Fast Web Collaborative web pages without markup language knowledge Started in 1995 by Ward Cunningham (sitting at the airport wanting to make a web page fast…) More than Wikipedia http://www.commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain- english

4. Wiki Features Anyone (permitted) can edit (history kept) Insert text, images, sound, video, links, pages Tags Frames/sidebars Email/RSS feed Export Statistics Levels of privacy

6. Choosing a Wiki By objectives: what you want to accomplish By features By ease of use www.wikimatrix.org to compare www.wikimatrix.org Popular wikis: pbwiki, wikispaces,curriki, seedwiki, mediawiki, pmwiki, socialtext, xwiki,twidi. wetpaint

7. Skills, Knowledge, Dispositions Knowledge synthesis and generation Communication skills: Writing, media Collaboration Information literacy Technology literacy Organizational/management skills … and student engagement

8. Uses Knowledge management Group projects Point of view study Planning (learning activities, units, grants) Lists/bibliographies Literature circles Text commentary Case studies

9. Wiki as Peer Review Tool

13. Management Student comments/peer review Monitor use – and delegate Responsible use (history tracks) Use of tags