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Exploring the World of Wikis: A Comprehensive Guide

Dive into the world of wikis with this comprehensive guide by Karin Horn. Learn about wiki basics, student and teacher uses, caveats, and examples. Start your wiki adventure today!

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Exploring the World of Wikis: A Comprehensive Guide

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  1. Welcome to theWild World of Wikis Today will be an adventure! Karin Horn, Your Guide khorn@esc11.net http://www.esc11.net/edtech/karin

  2. 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)

  3. 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

  4. Teacher Uses • Post content, students expand • Brainstorming and planning • Presentation tool • Develop curriculum

  5. Caveats • Fact or Fiction • Page vandalism • Intentional distortion and lies • Poor grammar

  6. 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

  7. More Examples • Star Trek • University of Calgary • How-to manuals, wikiHow • Map Projects • High School Online Collaborative Writing • Neighborhood Wiki • Math Mazes

  8. 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/

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