Using Wikis in the Classroom

Presented by Adam Frey - Wikispaces and Vicki Davis - CoolCatTeacher Wiki

It is hard not to be impressed by Vicki's enthusiasm and effective use of wikis. She has developed two successful wiki projects - The Flat Classroom and The Horizon Project.

A wiki is a web page with an edit button
Blog - stream of journal entries
Wiki – collection of collaborative information
Faster,faster in HawaiianWikispaces has just added multiple editng

To add new page – put them in workspace surrounded with brackets

Widget – meebo

Why Wikis

• Free
• Runs on older computers
• Runs on slower internet
• Easy
• Technology – enables cooperative learning

Coolcatteacher.wikispaces.com

Use wikis – jigsaw, think pair share

Lesson summaries

Notes collaboration

Cooperative learning

Westwood.wikispaces.com/work+ex+5

Introductory & Exploratory projects

What’s a wiki – google it – to have it become their knowledge

Wikis are for facts

Blogs are for opinion

Photobucket is not searchable – great for students

Rewards – Vicki has an awards wiki – Award winning wikis

Classroom organization

Master Wikis

Small edits

Communicate

Use the history

Discuss

Refresh before writing

***doesn’t allow copying off the internet**

Students have editing names. Every student is responsible for their uses name.

Classroom Considerations

Making student accounts

Private vs public

Structure vs free form

Installation options

Moodle has a wiki option

Educationalwikis.wikispaces.com – teachers share examples

100,000 wikis free wikis for teachers

http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=38

Look at Wikis

Horizon Project Students

http://horizonproject.wikispaces.com

Look at rubric for this project

Training materials on the wiki

Educational Ning

Classroom run as wikicentric class

Clustrmaps

You can’t join Horizon Spaces – only experts can edit on this site – students that mastered the skills in Flat classroom

The Effective Web 2.0 Classroom – Coming of age 2.0

The Engaged Teacher

What is?

• Evoca
• Elluminate
• Ning
• IM
• Skype
• Twitter
• Wiki
• E-Mail
• Wikipedia
• Meebo
• Second Life
• Facebook
• Flickr
• Youtube
• Teachertube
• Google Video

Look at her wiki for more

Coolest Things to Embed

• Meebo
• Slideshare.net
• Youtube, teachertube,photobucket
• Odeo
• Toondoo.com
• www.airset.com
• delicious tags
• http://del.icio.us
• www.dr2ooo.com/tools/maps
• www1.meebo.com/rooms
• www.bubbl.us – like Kidspiration and can be embedded in your wiki
• voicethread.com
• edubloggercon.wikispaces.com
• www.librarything.com
• netvibes
• pageflakes
• www.slurl.com – embeds coordinates from SL, creates the URL, paste in the wiki

Have students create a creative commons license

Allow you to connect students all over the world in a new way.

Wiki on social networking

Flat Classroom Project – Used wikis as primary tool

Video Questions

What social networking skills do you use?

From the Bloggers Café

David Warlick’s Handout

http://tinyurl.com/2223v2

http://neoworx.com

A school that wikis together stays together.

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