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INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER (WIKI)

INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER (WIKI). BY: KAREN EDEN ROSE-MARIE HOUSE SAMANTHA EWERS JOSH PARSON. INTRODUCTION. OUR PROJECT WILL BE BASED ON WIKIS, WE WILL PRESENT INFORMATION ON: WHAT IS WIKIS. HOW WIKI CAN BE CREATED. HOW IS CAN ENHANCE TEACHING AND EDUCATION.

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INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER (WIKI)

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  1. INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER (WIKI) BY: KAREN EDEN ROSE-MARIE HOUSE SAMANTHA EWERS JOSH PARSON

  2. INTRODUCTION • OUR PROJECT WILL BE BASED ON WIKIS, WE WILL PRESENT INFORMATION ON: • WHAT IS WIKIS. • HOW WIKI CAN BE CREATED. • HOW IS CAN ENHANCE TEACHING AND EDUCATION. • AND A FINAL DEMONSTRATION OF HOW IT CAN BE CREATED.

  3. WHAT IS WIKI? DONE BY KAREN EDEN

  4. WHAT IS WIKI? • Wikis are a combination of script and plain text files allowing users to create web pages. • Ward Cunningham was the first developer of wiki software, WikiWikiWeb in March 1995. It word wiki is a Hawaiian word which means quick. • A wiki is a collaborative of website whose content can be easily edited by multiple users, and add and remove content.

  5. Pros & Cons • Pros: • Users can create and edit information for collaborative content. • Generates conversation between staff, users, and the general public. • Current information con be posted on the Web in quick and easy fashion. • Easy to search • Can add pictures, video, and text easier.

  6. CONS: • Time is needed for adding content and monitoring. • Unsavoury content and appropriate comments might be posted. • Some training might be needed for staff and patrons

  7. HOW WIKI WORKS. BY ROSE-MARIE HOUSE

  8. HOW WIKI CAN BE USED TO ENHANCE TEACHING AND EDUCATION. BY SAMANTHA EWERS

  9. Wikis are one of many Web 2.0 components that can be used to enhance the learning process. • A wiki is web communication and collaboration tool that can be used to engage students in learning with others within a collaborative environment. • And by incorporating wikis into the classroom, educators can better prepare students to make innovative uses of collaborative software tools

  10. How it enhance learning? • Cooperative/Collaborative Paradigm • In cooperative learning, students work in heterogeneous groups to support the learning of their individual members. • It leads to positive interdependence of group members, individual accountability, face-to-face interaction, and appropriate use of collaborative skills. Miers (2004)

  11. Constructivist learning: • Engages students in interactions and explorations with learning materials and provides opportunities for them to observe the results of their manipulations. • It is an authentic, challenging and real world, which facilitates better understanding and transfer of learning to new situations • Provides students with opportunities to interact with each other to clarify and share ideas, to seek assistance, to negotiate problems, and to discuss solution.

  12. Uses of wikis • Students can use a wiki to develop research projects, with the wiki serving as ongoing documentation of their work • Teachers can use wikis as a knowledge base, enabling them to share reflections and thoughts regarding teaching practices, and allowing for versioning and documentation. • Students can add summaries of their thoughts from the prescribed readings, building a collaborative annotated bibliography on a wiki.

  13. DEMONSTRATION BY JOSH PARSON

  14. CONCLUSION BY JOSH PARSON

  15. A wiki is a collaborative web site whose content can be edited by visitors to the site, allowing users to easily create and edit web pages collaboratively. • Today’s students will not only manage business innovations of the future, but in many cases will drive them. • With the usage of wikis in classroom, educators can better prepare students to make innovative uses of collaborative software tools.

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