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Wikis : The 21 st Century Workspace

Wikis : The 21 st Century Workspace. Maureen B. Slatter Padilha. Why use a Wiki ?. Increase Student Engagement Encourage Cooperative Learning Encourage Communication Skills Provide greater abilities to share…. Why use a Wiki ?. Provide a common work space.

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Wikis : The 21 st Century Workspace

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  1. Wikis:The21stCentury Workspace Maureen B. Slatter Padilha

  2. Why use a Wiki? • Increase Student Engagement • Encourage Cooperative Learning • Encourage Communication Skills • Provide greater abilities to share…

  3. Why use a Wiki? • Provide a common work space. • Give a voice to everyone. • Create a Digital Portfolio • And SO MUCH MORE!

  4. What is a Wiki? • Hawaiian phrase, “wiki-wiki’ ~ means Quick • A Web 2.0 tool that encourages cooperative and collaborative learning. http://webtools4u2use.wikispaces.com/Wikis

  5. Encourage Cooperative Learning • In Education, teachers can have classroom Wiki’s that allow for only student participation. • Positive interdependence of work • Individual accountability • Face-to-face, or digital communication • Social Skills • Final product is a combination

  6. Encourage Communication Skills • Groups work together to create a digital report on a topic. • Participants are able to: • Edit their own work and others’ in the group • Support others by leaving comments • Track who participates

  7. Able to add to the site

  8. Digital Portfolio • Students can create their own Wiki to maintain their work. • Paperless classroom • Students are able to link personal Wiki to classroom Wiki

  9. Abilities to share • Peers, teachers and parents have the chance to view activities. • Everyone gets the chance to learn

  10. Common work space • Peers and teachers can help edit writings • Edits and comments are maintained for later reflection. • Place to keepnotes and files

  11. Gives everyone a voice • Online environment provides chances for all.

  12. And SO MUCH MORE! • 6th Grade Class of 2010-2011 http://padilhama.wikispaces.com/ • 6th Grade Class of 2011-2012 http://padilhasocialstudies2011-2012.wikispaces.com/

  13. Other examples of projects completed using a wiki. • Digital Citizenship site http://amdigitalcitizenship.wikispaces.com/ • NNU Mixed-Methods project http://mixed-methods-research-nnu-group-project.wikispaces.com/

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