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EXAMPLES OF GOOD PRACTICE WIKI - CASE STUDIES: PRAHOVA

EXAMPLES OF GOOD PRACTICE WIKI - CASE STUDIES: PRAHOVA. Mrs. Olivia Cătălina PASCU, Theoretic Highschool “Nichita Stănescu” Ploieşti Senior Trainer Intel Teach – Training in Knowledge Society. Abstract :.

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  1. EXAMPLES OF GOOD PRACTICEWIKI - CASE STUDIES: PRAHOVA Mrs. Olivia Cătălina PASCU, Theoretic Highschool “Nichita Stănescu” Ploieşti Senior Trainer Intel Teach – Training in Knowledge Society

  2. Abstract: “Examples of good practice. Wiki – case studies: Prahova” is an elearning educational case studies which describes a number of wiki sites, used by teachers from Prahova, in order to improve their activity, to be close to the interests of their students and to collaborate with parents. It contains a short overview of wiki services that may be used in education, something about history of wikis, their characteristics and security. The applied questionnaires to teachers and students have permitted to elaborate conclusions about the utility of collaborative sites and to express the point of view of teachers referring to the possibilities to use wikis in the future.

  3. Wikispaces - Wiki tool – is a service that lets you create a wiki for collaborative working; could be free, but there is a commercial version; the sites that we create are hosted. [11] http://www.wikispaces.com/ WIKI ABOUT WIKIS - Wiki sites

  4. Pbwiki - Wiki tool – is a wiki solution suitable for both business and education; could be free, but there is a commercial version; the sites that we create are hosted. [11] http://pbwiki.com/ WIKI ABOUT WIKIS - Wiki sites

  5. Wetpaint - Wiki tool – is a service to create free wikis, simple to start; easy to build and fun to share; they are free; the sites that we create are hosted.[11] http://www.wetpaint.com/ WIKI ABOUT WIKIS - Wiki sites

  6. MediaWiki - Wiki tool - the wiki engine that powers Wikipedia, so any wiki site based on MediaWiki has the Wikipedia look and feel; they are free; we can download; platform is Windows, Unix/Linux. [11] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki WIKI ABOUT WIKIS - Wiki sites

  7. Google Sites - Web / wiki Tool - lets you create simple, secure group websites; you could share information with a few people, a whole organization, or the entire world; they are free; the sites that we create are hosted. [11] https://www.google.com/ accounts/ManageAccount WIKI ABOUT WIKIS - Wiki sites

  8. TiddlyWiki - Personal wiki tool - a single file which has all the characteristics of a wiki - including all of the content, the functionality and the style sheet; they are free; we can download; platform is Windows, Mac, Unix. [11] http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ WIKI ABOUT WIKIS - Wiki sites

  9. Wikipedia - Collaborative encyclopaedia -is the biggest multi-national free content encyclopedia in the world; It has been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world and the vast majority of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the Internet; they are free; the pages that we create are hosted.[11] http://www.wikipedia.org/ WIKI ABOUT WIKIS - Wiki sites

  10. Wiki definition A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone or those who are registered users to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language.[1][2] Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. The collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia is one of the best-known wikis. [2] Wikis are used in business to provide intranet and Knowledge Management systems, but they are also used in education to improve the collaboration between teachers and students, inside and outside the classes. Ward Cunningham, the developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work".[3]

  11. History of wikis "Wiki" is a Hawaiian word for "fast". "Wiki" can be expanded as "What I Know Is", but this is a backronym. [4] WikiWikiWeb was the first site to be called a wiki. Ward Cunningham started developing WikiWikiWeb in 1994, and installed it on the Internet domain c2.com on March 25, 1995. It was named by Cunningham, who remembered a Honolulu International Airport counter employee telling him to take the "Wiki Wiki" shuttle bus that runs between the airport's terminals. [8][9] In the early 2000s, wikis were increasingly adopted in enterprise as collaborative software. Common uses included project communication, intranets, and documentation, initially for technical users. Today some companies use wikis as their only collaborative software and as a replacement for static intranets. There may be greater use of wikis behind firewalls than on the public Internet. On March 15, 2007, wiki entered the online Oxford English Dictionary. [7]

  12. Characteristics Ward Cunningham, and co-author Bo Leuf, in their book The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web described the essence of the Wiki concept as follows: A wiki invites all users to edit any page or to create new pages within the wiki Web site Wiki promotes meaningful topic associations between different pages by making page link creation almost intuitively easy and showing whether an intended target page exists or not. A wiki is not a carefully crafted site for casual visitors. Instead, it seeks to involve the visitor in an ongoing process of creation and collaboration that constantly changes the Web site landscape.

  13. Research communities Wikis are an active topic of research. Two well-known wiki conferences are: • The International Symposium on Wikis (WikiSym) - a conference dedicated to wiki research and practice in general (WikiSym 2009 will be held in Orlando, FL, on October 25-27, 2009) • Wikimania, the Wikimedia Foundation conference - a conference dedicated to research and practice of Wikimedia Foundation projects like Wikipedia

  14. QUESTIONNAIRE It was applied questionnaire to teachers and students.

  15. Questionnaire for teachers 1. How many classes did you use wiki collaboration to? 2. Have you promoted the collaboration sites during your activities (symposium, teachers’ reunion, CCD activities)? 3. Mention what do you think the biggest advantages of the wiki sites are. 4. Mention what do you think the disadvantages of the wiki sites are.

  16. Questionnaire for teachers 5. How much time have you used at home for developing the wiki sites you manage?

  17. Questionnaire for teachers 6.How many lessons for using a wiki site did you carry on in the Informatics lab in 2007-2009? 7. Do you think the students would like using the computer and Internet for homework for different activities instead of the classical way? 1. Yes 2. No 3. Not always 8. Do you think that the time the students use for playing video games can be reduced by using wiki sites and other online collaboration instruments? 1. Yes 2. No

  18. Questionnaire for teachers 9. Have you worked with parents using wiki sites? 1. Yes 2. No Did you mention the existence of these sites to the parents? 1. Yes 2. No 10. How do you intend to use wiki sites? As before I don’t intend to use them any more Scholar partnerships with teachers that teach the same course as me in our country Partnerships with teachers from other countries

  19. Questionnaire for students 1. What courses did you use wiki collaboration sites to? 2. Have you shown your aquiantances the collaboration site?Why? The parents The friends Haven’t shown 3. Mention what do you think the biggest advantages of the wiki sites are. 4. Mention what do you think the disadvantages of the wiki sites are.

  20. Questionnaire for students 5. How much do you think you use the computer for these wiki sites?

  21. Questionnaire for students 6. Aproximatively how many lessons in the Informatics lab consisting the usage of wiki sites did you attend to in 2007-2009? 7. Would you like to use the computer and Internet for homework at various courses, instead of making them ordinary? 1. Yes 2. No 3. Not always 8. Did the time used for video games reduced by using the wiki sites?

  22. WIKIS IN MY DISTRICT – WIKIS ON THE WORLD On the world, between 30 July and 25 January, was enrolled (recorded) 2185 wiki sites from Romania, on http://www.wikispaces.com/, from 235 043 wiki sites recorded in the world in this period.

  23. CONCLUSIONS - Students It was questioned 242 pupils aged between 11 and 19 years old. Most often students used collaborative Sites in Informatics and Mathematics, then Romanian, Geography, Physics and Chemistry, and civic education. The sites have been less used on other disciplines. Most students of small age (grades IVth, Vth and VIth) showed the collaboration sites to their parents and friends, demonstrating a greater enthusiasm than their colleagues of higher grades.

  24. CONCLUSIONS - Students Popularization by students of wiki sites

  25. CONCLUSIONS - Students On the question “Would you like to use the computer and the Internet for homework at various courses, instead of making them ordinary?”, most of the students prefer the affirmative answer.

  26. CONCLUSIONS - Students Among the advantages of using wiki sites, described by students are: • searching information for school • collaboration with teacher and colleagues • captivating way of teaching • studying the homework, the projects posted by colleagues • keeping the information for a longer time About the disadvantages, most of students do not see any, but there are students who mentioned the lack of connection to the Internet at home computer, the possibility that the topics to be copied.

  27. CONCLUSIONS - Students On the question "Did the time used for video games reduced by using the wiki sites?" The students answered according with the graph in Figure 02. Only 22.97% of students said that the time spent on entertainment has decreased, compared with 72.27% of teachers.

  28. CONCLUSIONS - Teachers The questionnaire was applied to 34 participant teachers on the course Intel Teach - Training in Knowledge Society. In case they have chosen to use wiki sites, teachers have allocated a larger number of hours (in the order of tens) than the number of hours the wiki site was used by students. The number of classes in which were used such sites varies between 0 and 8, the average being 2.45 classes. 63% of teachers have promoted the use of wiki sites in various activities involving: symposiums, educational teachers’ reunions, CCD activities etc, because they consider it useful in the training activity.

  29. CONCLUSIONS - Teachers Among the advantages of using wiki sites, teachers mentioned: • they easily to be made and managed • they ease collaboration in a secure area • they can be used for expressing opinions • they offer feed-back on time because they allow monitoring the activity • they offer the possibility of revision in time to review posted materials • rational use of the time needed for lesson • they are suitable for various uses: dictionaries, libraries, themes, travel journals, etc.

  30. CONCLUSIONS - Teachers Among the disadvantages of using wiki sites, teachers mentioned: - unwanted changes to them - technical failure may occur during their use - no help in Romanian supplied- involve consumption of time in classes - require knowledge of IT for administration - facilitate copying themes if they are not differentiated - not all students have a computer connected to the Internet at home

  31. CONCLUSIONS - Teachers Referring to the opinion of teachers about students’ preference to solve several issues for home computer, 72.7% of them believe that students prefer more themes to be made on computer, while only 27.27% believe that students do not always want this. 72.27% of teachers believe that using wiki sites it is possible to reduce time spent on computers by students, for entertainment. Only 54.54% of teachers told to the parents about these sites and only 27.27% of them have used the sites for collaboration with them.

  32. CONCLUSIONS - Teachers In the future teachers have decided to use wiki Sites as they did before, but also to collaborate with teachers from our country and from other countries, to prepare students for the baccalaureate, in the school counselling activity, to maintain a link with the family. Although in our country the use of wiki sites is still at the beginning, students are open to this kind of collaboration, meeting the situations when a wiki site created for a subject was used for other subjects to post projects or other materials in digital format.

  33. BIBLIOGRAPHY Oxford English Dictionary (draft entry, March 2007) Requires Paid Subscription Encyclopædia Britannica. 1. London: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.. 2007. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1192819/wiki.Retrieved on 2008-04-10. "Hawaiian Words; Hawaiian to English". Retrieved on 2008-09-19. Cunningham, Ward (2008-02-25). "Wiki History". WikiWikiWeb. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiHistory. Retrieved on 2007-03-09. (Ebersbach 2008, p. 10) Diamond, Graeme (2007-03-01). "March 2007 new words, OED". Oxford University Press.http://dictionary.oed.com/news/newwords.html. Retrieved on 2007-03-16.

  34. BIBLIOGRAPHY Cunningham, Ward (2003-11-01). "Correspondence on the Etymology of Wiki". WikiWikiWeb. http://c2.com/doc/etymology.html. Retrieved on 2007-03-09. Cunningham, Ward (2007-07-26). "Wiki Wiki Hyper Card". WikiWikiWeb. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiWikiHyperCard. Retrieved on 2007-03-09. (Ebersbach 2008, p. 20) (Ebersbach 2008, p. 54) Jane Hart Social Media & Learning Consultant and Head of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies - Knowledge,  Skills and Tools for the Learning 2.0 Age http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/jane.html

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