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WIKIS

WIKIS. Easy Collaboration for All. What is Wikipedia?. Wikipedia.org is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.

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WIKIS

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  1. WIKIS Easy Collaboration for All

  2. What is Wikipedia? • Wikipedia.org is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. • Its 23 million articles, over 4.1 million in the English Wikipedia alone, have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. • Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site, and it has about 100,000 active contributors. As of 2012, there are editions of Wikipedia in 285 languages

  3. Continued.. • It has become the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet,ranking sixth globally among all websites on Alexa and having an estimated 365 million readers worldwide. In 2011, Wikipedia received an estimated 2.7 billion monthly page views from the United States alone.

  4. Name Originated from? • Most people understand the “pedia” part but only a few understand the “wiki” • Wiki is the most important part because without the wiki, this encyclopedia could not exist. • The word WIKI is short form of the Hawaiian wiki-wiki, which means “quick”.

  5. Who made wikipedia? • Ward Cunningham created the first wiki in 1995 • He was looking to design ab easy authoring tool that might spur people to publish.

  6. The Challenge of wikipedia in schools • Students are turning to Wikipedia as resource for research, much to the chagrin of many teachers and librarians • Wikipedia has many anonymous authors makes it more difficult • The idea that it might be wrong is a tough one for most people to overcome • An additional challenge with wikipedia is that teachers don’t know whether they should encourage their students to contribute what they learn and know

  7. How should teachers deal with Wiki in Schools • Teachers should give students editorial control so they can have a sense of responsibility and ownership for the site and minimize the risk of someone adding something offensive. • The class as a whole could monitor the content that is added and make necessary edits and revisions. • Teachers can create a online text for your curriculum that both teacher and student will use.

  8. Continued.. • They can add graphics and links, annotations and reflections. • Just like blogs, they could also post PowerPoint presentations, video and audio files • WIKIBOOKS: is a site that hosts all sorts of collaboratively written texts.

  9. Examples of wikis in k-12 education Wikis THIS video clip shows how some other classrooms use wiki

  10. Wiki tools for schools • Creating a wiki is easy WIKISPACES

  11. OTHER WIKIS • Pbwiki.com • Wetpaint.com • Wikibooks.com

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