2. Go ahead Make My Wiki!
• Sign up at www.wikispaces.com
• Make a “space”
– You will be working on your own wiki during this
session.
• If you wish to join the backchannel, go to
– http://tinyurl.com/backchat
– Passcode: necc
3. Adam Frey, Co Founder Wikispaces
Wiki Basics
1. Survey Audience
2. Wiki Basics
A. What is a wiki? Editing
and the Four Tabs
B. Why is that valuable?
Simplicity and
Accessibility
C. A Quick Look at Some
Advanced Features.
Templates, Backlinks,
Wanted Pages,
Includes
D. A Sneak Peak at the
New Tag System
E. Overcoming objections:
Student accounts,
locking, etc.
12. Vicki Davis, Teacher
Cool Cat Teacher Blog
Pedagogical Wiki Examples Co-Creator, Flat Classroom & Digiteen Projects
A. Elementary
B. Middle School
C. High School
D. Assignments & Templates
E. Tags
F. Wiki Collaboration &
What to do about Wiki Wars
What it means to
collaborate - right and
wrong way to collaborate.
G. Rss page to track the
wikis.
H. Handling private issues -
USING Wikimail!!
http://tinyurl.com/classwiki
40. My Seven Classroom Wiki Uses
1. Lesson Summaries
2. Notes Collaboration
3. Concept Introduction & Exploratory
Projects
4. Learn Shares
5. Individual Assessments
6. Rewards
7. Classroom Organization
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41. Wiki Examples
• My 9th Grade Wiki Assignments
• Convergence Project
• Walkers Wikinomics
• Flat Classroom Project (internal link)
–Flat Classroom Wiki
42. “Selling” Wikis to Administrators
Sometimes you have to get it
unblocked!
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44. Research Supports Cooperative
Learning Strategies
• Paulson switched to
cooperative learning strategies
and saw his pass rate improve.
• Excellent summary of the
research at: Starting Point:
Teaching Entry Level
Geoscience, Science Education
Resource Center at Carlleton
College, funded by the NSF,
http://serc.carleton.edu/introgeo/cooperative/whyuse.html
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45. What is the difference?
• Passive Learning
• Active Learning
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46. Students Must Be
• Collaborators
• Synthesizers
• Explainers
• Problem Solvers!
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47. Why I chose wikis:
• Free
• Runs on older Computers
• Runs on slower Internet
• Easy
• “Think Pair Share” for the Computer
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