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Teaching in Wikiland

Teaching in Wikiland An Introduction to Using Wikis in the Classroom By Aubri Keleman Teaching in Wikiland Objectives: Introduce wikis and present Wikis as information sources Wikis as professional tools for teachers Ideas for using wikis with students What is a Wiki?

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Teaching in Wikiland

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  1. Teaching in Wikiland An Introduction to Using Wikis in the Classroom By Aubri Keleman

  2. Teaching in Wikiland Objectives: Introduce wikis and present • Wikis as information sources • Wikis as professional tools for teachers • Ideas for using wikis with students

  3. What is a Wiki? • A piece of software • Like a word document online • A page anyone can edit

  4. Yes but can I learn to use it? You can learn to use a wiki in 30-60 min. There are several free sources for wikis.

  5. What’s important about a wiki? • Collaboration • Hyperlinks

  6. Seedwiki

  7. Seedwiki

  8. Seedwiki

  9. Wikis as Information Sources What do you know about Wikipedia?

  10. Wikipedia: Wikipedia is: • A free encyclopedia • Multilingual • Web-based • Written collaboratively by volunteers Most articles can be changed by anyone Wikipedia has more than 3,210,000 articles

  11. Wikis as Information Sources Wikipedia or Whackypedia…

  12. Wikis as Information Sources Nature magazine carried out an expert-led investigation of Wikipedia comparing it to Britannica. “The exercise revealed numerous errors in both encyclopedias, but among 42 entries tested, the difference in accuracy was not particularly great: the average science entry in Wikipedia contained around four inaccuracies; Britannica, about three.” (Giles, 2005, 1)

  13. Wikis as Information Sources University of Buffalo professor Alex Havelis created 13 errors on various posts of Wikipedia. All were fixed within a couple of hours. During the tsunami, Wikipedia was called “the most comprehensive source on the web.” (Richardson, 2005,2)

  14. Wikipedia

  15. Wikipedia

  16. Wikijunior

  17. Wikijunior

  18. Wikis as Professional Tools for Teachers Wikis support collaborative projects by: • Teachers • School board members • Schools .

  19. Wikis in Elementary and Middle Schools Wikis in upper elementary school have been used for collaborative writing: • Class newspaper • Story telling • Poetry • Correcting teacher samples of writing • Classroom wikipedia Other ideas for wikis: • Brainstorming • Group work

  20. Buckman Arts Magnet Elementary School

  21. Sample for First Grade

  22. How might students use wikis? • As information sources • As collaborative tools for group work • As an authentic reason to write and read • As a way to publish and share work

  23. Information Literacy Lessons Related to Wikis Kindergarten: • How to type • How to use a mouse • How to paste a picture in a wiki ABC book Grade three: • How to edit a wiki • How to add to the class wikipedia

  24. Information Literacy Lessons Related to Wikis Grade 7: • Using wikis on a collaborative project • (A single lesson could be on respect in wikiland) • Evaluating wikipedia as a resource • Adding to wikijunior or wikipedia

  25. On Your Handout… Free Wikis Informational Wikis What can wikis do? Teaching wiki ethics Sandbox wiki References

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