Welcome to theWild World of WikisToday will be an adventure!

Karin Horn, Your Guidekhorn@esc11.net

http://www.esc11.net/edtech/karin

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)

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

Teacher Uses

• Post content, students expand

• Brainstorming and planning

• Presentation tool

• Develop curriculum

Caveats

• Fact or Fiction

• Page vandalism

• Intentional distortion and lies

• Poor grammar

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

More Examples

• Star Trek

• University of Calgary

• How-to manuals, wikiHow

• Map Projects

• High School Online Collaborative Writing

• Neighborhood Wiki

• Math Mazes

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/