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Teaching with Technology: Wikis in Education

Teaching with Technology: Wikis in Education. James Baldwin Information Resource Center Dorine Takam , IRC Assistant/New Media Manager, MP Lib. Sc. October 30, 2013. Part1: Introduction to Wikis. What is a wiki? Best practices in Education Examples Benefits & potential problems.

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Teaching with Technology: Wikis in Education

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  1. Teaching with Technology: Wikis in Education James Baldwin Information Resource CenterDorineTakam, IRC Assistant/New Media Manager, MP Lib. Sc. October 30, 2013

  2. Part1: Introduction to Wikis • What is a wiki? • Best practices in Education • Examples • Benefits & potential problems

  3. What is a Wiki? • 1995 – First Wiki by Ward Cunningham "WikiWikiWeb" for library of "software patterns." • "Wiki" is from Hawaiian word wiki or wiki-wiki, meaning "quick”

  4. What is a Wiki? A short introduction: “Wikis in Plain English” Available at http://youtu.be/QL9p-_QsXU4

  5. What is a Wiki? • Definition 1: An online collaborative tool that allows more than one person to work on a webpage and instantly publish it. • Definition 2: A web-based collaborative communication and information creation tool. • Definition 3: A collaborative website whose users can add, modify, or delete its content via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a rich-text editor.

  6. Best Practices in Education • Resource Creation: Virtual field trips, wikibook, study guides, glossary… • Student Participation: Exam review, peer editing, get feedback, notes sharing… • Group projects: organize ideas, fan clubs, track projects… • Student Interaction: data collection, mock-debate, reviews/opinion sharing…

  7. Best Practices in Education • For the Classroom: FAQ, scrapbook, calendar, policies… • Community: recipe book, local history, news… • Other: student leave their books at school, parents review… • For the teacher: professional contacts, courses website, publishing work….

  8. Best Practices in Education Video link: http://youtu.be/1pR5yogCmkA

  9. Examples of Wikis for Education • http://wikisineducation.wikifoundry.com/page/Wikis+in+the+Classroom • http://6thgrade-07.pbworks.com/w/page/1071815/FrontPage • http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com/Examples+of+educational+wikis

  10. Examples • http://mrsanderson10.pbworks.com/w/page/33263525/FrontPage • http://1000names.wikispaces.com/home • http://kaysgerman.wikifoundry.com • http://wikisineducation.wikifoundry.com/photos • Popular wikis: Wikipedia, WikiHow, WikiTravel

  11. Benefits • Simple to create, to use, and free • Enables collaboration (with group, class, University, world) • Engages students in knowledge construction and sharing • Offers advanced tracking features such as RSS feeds and page histories • Values student work by potentially distributing it beyond the classroom: it is a website • Values teachers work and professionalism

  12. Potential Difficulties • Need of Internet connection – tech based tool • Complicates the evaluation of individual effort • Provides opportunities for outside public feedback • Intimidates less tech-savvy collaborators • Setting clear objectives/roles/policies • Prone to vandalism, to faulty knowledge

  13. Part 2: Steps in Creating a Wiki Mostly used Wiki platforms for education • http://www.wikispaces.com • http://pbworks.com/

  14. Part 2: Steps in Creating a Wiki • For Wikispaces, a self training tutorial is available at: http://youtu.be/X3P7n7C2ZqE

  15. Part 2: Steps in Creating a Wiki • For pbworks.com, start from the environment reserved for education: http://pbworks.com/education

  16. Part 2: Steps in Creating a Wiki Available at http://youtu.be/QY3kJKzhG8U

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  27. Part 2: Steps in Creating a Wiki • Play, explore and use it!!! • Browsing: http://ircsocialmedia2013.pbworks.com/

  28. Part 3: Tutorial • Create a wiki for our class. • Visit http://yaounde.usembassy.gov/ameng.html 3. From the above link or other online sources, share the following content type within your virtual community: 2 websites, 2 books or articles, one video and one picture

  29. Questions?

  30. Contact • Like our Facebook Page at https://www.facebook.com/yaounde.usembassy • Send us an email at: yaoundeirc2@state.gov • Call us: 22201500 Ext. 4340

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