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Wild World of Wikis

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PBworks Workshop

Workshop links, resources, and/or materials!

Have you ever attended a workshop and thought, "I wish I had a copy of that presentation" (or handouts, links, video, etc.)? Do you want to be able save what you began working on and possibly the work of others? Did you enjoy other educators ideas and creativity and want to share each other's expertise? Wikis are the way to do it! Now, think how students feel. . .

INTRO - PAY ATTENTION

A Vision of Students Today

Anthropological View of YouTube

Comment: How does this video relate to your class environment- post-its

AGENDA

Introductions
What is a wiki? Overview
Wiki in the classroom - power point
Features of a wiki?
Examples of educator wikis
Social Bookmarking - Delicious
Brainstorming
Set up your own wiki
Resources
Student access with out email
Assessment checklist.doc
Wiki Workshop Rubric

What is a wiki? collaboration, communication, creativity, connections

This is one!

A Wiki (see Wikipedia's definition) is a easy to use webpage that anyone can edit. This site itself is an example of a "wiki." Invented by Ward Cunningham, wikis are a read/write web technology that allow for easy, fast, and collaborative websites to be built without the need for special software or a lot of training. Adam Frey, from Wikispaces calls a wiki: "a web page with an edit button." ^[1]

Features of a wiki:

Like a website, you and those with a password, can add and edit files, docs, text, pictures, links, sounds & video files. It's has muti-user web plublishing capacity.

Unlike a website, a wiki can be collaborative and ever evolving.

Unlike a blog, the strength of a wiki lies in WRITING and in UNDERSTANDING HOW TOPICS ARE RELATED.

Educational Uses

Why Use A Wiki?

There are five elements that, in combination, are the "secret sauce" to wikis:

You edit in a browser, without the need for specilized programs;
You can link to uncreated page, so the organization of the wiki can be created on the fly--without interfering with creativity or interrupting the thought process;
Wikis keep a chronological history for every page, so nothing is lost forever, no changes can be completely destructive, and revisions can always be undone;
Wikis include a discussion area, so there can be a dialogue about changes before, during, and after they are being made;
And finally, and in some ways most significantly, you can monitor a wiki or a particular page and receive notification of any changes to that page--which is why an error in a site like Wikipedia can be corrected in a matter of a few minutes.

Examples of Educator Wikis

AF School Forest Project

http://coxmath.pbworks.com/-- Here you will find pages created by math students from Sequoia Middle School ranging from algebra and geometry vocabulary to theorems to resources created by students.