Wikis That Work
Practical and Pedagogical Applications of Wikis in the Classroom
Slideshow
(Wikis that Work on slideshare.net)
Wiki Nuts and Bolts
Common Craft and 'Wikis in Plain English'
Some common questions and issues
- Wikipedia: reliability and authenticity of information questioned, however it can be a great resource for students to research and an authentic project that students can contribute to
- Wikipedia School and Universities projects
- The 'fake professor' controversy
- Students assessed with wikipedia
- Andy Carvin's Learning.now: When is an expert not an expert?
- Wikipedia Schools/Teachers' Guide
- Essential features of a wiki: web pages, discussion tabs, history trail, management and control
- Different management levels to suit user needs
- Potentially, anyone can contribute, edit and delete
- List and print pages
- Explore the history of each page and 'revert' back to a previous version
- Use of discussion/comments tabs
- Embed multimedia: audio, video, images, RSS
Anatomy of a Wiki
The Anatomy of a Wiki video (embedded here) uses the Flat Classroom Project 2007 wiki to show how a wiki is used for interaction and collaboration by 7 classrooms and many othere educators from around the world.
Wiki as a disruptive technology in education
(a definition of disruptive technologies: innovations that drastically change the course by which users connect, engage, and relate with the world and transform society)
- WikiHow: The 'How to' manual that anyone can write and edit
- Amopedia: A community for sharing information about the products you like most
- Citizendium: The general public and experts collaborate, using their real names. A new knowledge society.
Pedagogical uses of wikis in the classroom
Essential features of a Wiki-centric classroom
- Collaborative: shared experiences
- Engaging and supports social learning
- Opportunities for publication: teacher and student
- Opportunities for interaction
- Ability to use Web 2.0 tools
- Online learning, 24/7
- Fosters development of information literacy skills
Best practice use of wikis to support curriculum objectives
- ITGS wiki
- Course content development and syllabus outlines and timetable
- Online assignments and projects
- Provides for student-student and student-teacher interaction
- Assessment, presentation
- North Shore Reflections (Vinnie Vrotny)
- Westwood Schools wiki (Vicki Davis)
Some other uses of wikis
Teacher professional collaboration wiki
ISTE: SIGHC Wiki
Mont'Kiara International School Technology Integration curriculum planning wiki
K12 Online Conference (October/November 2006)
Professional Learning Environment / Digital Portfolio
Other presentation wikis:
A selection of best-practice use
- Warlick's CoLearners Wiki (David Warlick)
- Improving instruction through the use of weblogs (Anne Davis)
- Podcasting and All That Jazz
- Cyberbullying
- Information Fluency (Joyce Valenza)
- The Connected Classroom
- More examples
Resources
- Wikis in Education (portal)
- Cool Cat Teacher: How I Use Wikis and Wiki Collaboration Across the Curriculum
- 7 Things You Should Know about Wikis (from EduCause)
- Julie Lindsay's Delicious tags for 'Wiki best practice'
- MediaShift: Your guide to wikis
- Are wiki's worth the time? from Dec/Jan 0506 Learning and Leading Magazine
- Wikipedia Schools/Teachers' Guide
Collaboration and global communication
- Project Topics
- Project Resources
- In the News
- Winning student page on Virtual Communication
- Main features of student output:
- Personal video embedded on the wiki page
- Collaborative information using text and other multimedia
- Evidence of collaboration via discussion tab
- International Edublog Awards winner 2006 for Best Wiki
Web 2.0 tools used with the wiki to support online collaboration
- Audio recording, podcasting and wiki page embedding (e.g. Evoca)
- Video hosting and and embedding (e.g. YouTube and Google Videos)
- Communication tools (e.g. Skype, IM)
- Social networking: Ning
Other best practice examples of wiki-centric projects
- 1001 Flat World Tales (Clay Burell) and MS 1001 Flat World Tales (Kim Cofino)
- International Teen Life
- Expert Voices (Darren Kuropatwa)
- A Million Penguins
- Voices of the World (Sharon Tonner)
- Life 'Round Here (Chris Craft)
Getting started with wikis
- Wikispaces for teachers: Advertisement free for education
- PBWiki: It's as easy as making a peanut butter sandwich
- WetPaint: Now advertisiment free
Video: How to embed a video onto a wiki page
This video was created for the Flat Classroom project and shows how to embed a Google video onto a wikispaces wiki. The same principle applies to other video hosting websites and alternative wiki sites.
Julie Lindsay, Last updated November 23, 2007