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Use of a Wiki for the Enrichment of Upper Primary Science / Math / English

Use of a Wiki for the Enrichment of Upper Primary Science / Math / English. Presenter : Mr Christopher Chua Ai Tong School. Content of Today’s Presentation. 1 st Section: What is a wiki Uses of wiki How to create a wiki 2 nd Section: How I have used a wiki in my classroom

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Use of a Wiki for the Enrichment of Upper Primary Science / Math / English

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  1. Use of a Wiki for the Enrichment of Upper Primary Science / Math / English Presenter : Mr Christopher Chua Ai Tong School

  2. Content of Today’s Presentation • 1st Section: • What is a wiki • Uses of wiki • How to create a wiki • 2nd Section: • How I have used a wiki in my classroom • teaching. • The Do’s and Don’ts of using a wiki • Question and Answer Session

  3. What is a Wiki? • A wiki is a web site that • lets any visitor become a participant:   • you can create or edit the actual site contents without any special technical knowledge or tools. All you need is a computer with an Internet connection. • is continuously “under revision.” • is a living collaboration whose purpose is the sharing of the creative process and product by many. • One famous example is Wiki-pedia, an online encyclopedia with no “authors” but millions of contributors and editors • Let’s watch a video. This video is an excellent explanation of what a wiki is and tells you how it works and thus the power of a wiki. • Wikis in Plain English (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY)

  4. Who is wiki for? • This offer is available exclusively for K-12 educational use. K-12 means kindergarten through secondary school. It is available worldwide to teachers, students, and educators.

  5. Uses of Wiki

  6. Uses of a Wiki? • Presentation Wiki • Presentation Wiki - this presentation is using free wiki software! See more examples of presentation wikis. • Procedures Wikis • OWHL Staff Procedures Wiki • Wikis for Projects • ShipWiki • Wikis as Research Guides • OWHL Research Wiki • UMASS Boston's Healey Library • Wikis to teach classes • History 100 Wiki • Dig This! Wiki • Equiano • Collaborative Community • ALA Professional Tips Wiki • Wiki as a Web Page • Roc Wiki

  7. Wikis are a lot easier than web pages

  8. Differences between a blog and a wiki • A blog, or web log, shares writing and multimedia content in the form of “posts” (starting point entries) and “comments” (responses to the posts). • no one is able to change a comment or post made by another. • usual format is post-comment-comment-comment, and so on. • blogs are often the vehicle of choice to express individual opinions. • A wiki has a far more open structure and allows others to change what one person has written. This openness may trump individual opinion with group consensus.

  9. How do I create a wiki? • As stated in the video, there are three wiki sites you can go to to create one. • www.pbwiki.com • www.wetpaint.com • www.wikispaces.com • For today’s presentation, I’ll show you a demonstration on how to create a wiki in www.wikispaces.com which is the type of wiki I am familiar with.

  10. How do I create a wiki?Let us see how…

  11. My class wiki

  12. Wiki ideas for class • For science : mini debates, discussions about videos, collaboration among groups to present different sub-topics, reflections about assigned articles or topics, share about newspaper articles read, expert groups sharing etc. • In the pipeline : discussion on concept cartoons, concept maps. • I’ve look at how the wiki could be used for English to collaborate to give answers to comprehension passages. (previously) • Drama script ( a good way to collaborate fast)

  13. From my experience • Explain what a wiki is to the students • Demonstrate the basic functions (the rest the students can figure out on their own.) • Start with simpler collaborative assignments. • Be clear about what you want from them. • State expectations and format clearly. • Make use of the collaborated information on a timely basis so students know that what they contribute is useful and will be motivated to contribute more.

  14. From my experience • State rules e.g. use proper English, no personal attacks, only pertaining to Science, if unsure, do not erase another persons work, could add on and explain in discussion tag. • When they sign in, they need not give their full name but an identifiable name. • You may have to spend more time initially monitoring that everyone is using the wiki responsibly. You could remove their permission to use the wiki if they don’t collaborate cooperatively. • You may also want to invite parents to view your wiki so that they know what their kids are up to.

  15. Conclusion • Create your own wiki and try it out. • Bear in mind a wiki is by far one of the best for collaborative work. • There are many examples out there already as a model or guide. ……so why wait and start with the man in the mirror to get things rolling.

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