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Welcome to the Wild World of Wikis. Today will be an adventure!. Karin Horn, Your Guide khorn@esc11.net http://www.esc11.net/edtech/karin. What is a Wiki?. Educator Videos Wiki Walk Through Hawaiian term “wiki wiki” means “very fast” Fast method for creating content as a group
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Welcome to theWild World of Wikis Today will be an adventure! Karin Horn, Your Guide khorn@esc11.net http://www.esc11.net/edtech/karin
What is a Wiki? • Educator Videos • Wiki Walk Through • Hawaiian term “wiki wiki” means “very fast” • Fast method for creating content as a group • Website that permits designated individuals to jointly author and edit documents. • Collection of collaboratively authored web documents • No need to know HTML (web programming language)
Student Uses • Student group work - reports, presentations • Class notes refined by students/teacher • Contribute research findings to a topic • Constructing answers to exam questions • Contribute to a writing prompt with interactive links for different story paths
Teacher Uses • Post content, students expand • Brainstorming and planning • Presentation tool • Develop curriculum
Caveats • Fact or Fiction • Page vandalism • Intentional distortion and lies • Poor grammar
Examples • Wikipedia.org • Wikimedia Projects • Teach Digital, Wes Fryer • David Warlick - CoLearners • Wiki While You Work, Mark Wagner • Adult Literacy Education • Romantic Audience Project • Wikitravel
More Examples • Star Trek • University of Calgary • How-to manuals, wikiHow • Map Projects • High School Online Collaborative Writing • Neighborhood Wiki • Math Mazes
Wikispaces • http://www.wikispaces.com/ • http://www.wikispaces.com/examples • http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers100K • http://www.wikispaces.com/site/tour#introduction • http://horntrips.wikispaces.com/