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| Digital Native Creating a Wiki Page The Learner will: 1. Learn how to create their own classroom wiki page 2. Working with your assigned group -- add a written and/or video account OR EDITING AND ADDING INFORMATION TO AN EXISTING WIKI SITE
(One of the purposes of the Wiki Site is to provide a history of Church Pioneers in Kiribati. As a Church employee or teacher - - you are a pioneer and each of you have an inspiring story to tell future generations. Joining the Wiki Site Each of you should have received an email from me several weeks ago, all you have to do is hit reply and send it back to me. By doing this you will have access to write, edit, make comments and suggestions to the Wikispace site. The wiki site is open to the public, so you can start to enter information and it will request you join the site and will ask for an email. When I receive the email, you will be approved to enter your story on the wiki site. The videos that follow tells you how to begin your own classroom wiki or to add to the http://kiribati-lds-pioneers.wikispaces.com/ site. |
Classroom uses of an Educational WikiWiki in a K-12 classroom
Wikis have different applications in the K12 classroom, they are used for pedagogical, administrative and social goals. You will find here some examples of the uses of wikis and links to popular wikis and readings about those uses.Examples of uses of wikis in K-12
- Science Fair Projects - A wiki could be set up for middle or high school students to brainstorm ideas for and plan science fair projects. Initially it would mostly be brainstorming, posting ideas and information to back them up. As they begin to flesh out the ideas that they are interested in, small groups might form to work on individual projects, but could still contribute ideas to other projects. The teacher can act as a facilitator by offering suggestions and asking probing questions to get students to consider particular aspects in the planning of their projects. The wiki could also be used to record and organize data, and plan eventual papers/presentations.
- Collaborative Textbooks - From Edutopia (the magazine) for September/October 2004, the article "Crack the Books" (p. 14) describes the California Open Source Textbook Project (COSTP) which is an initiative to create online textbooks using wiki software and then eventually create printed copies. The founder of the project contends that most of the information in K-12 textbooks is in the public domain. The project aims to help California slash its $400 million dollar textbook budget. You can visit the project online at World History Textbook
- Student Portfolios - A wiki makes an easy shell for electronic portfolios where students can display and discuss their work with others. It would also be an excellent forum for peer editing and peer feedback to help students improve their writing skills.
- WikiOrganization - I used a local wiki on my computer to organize materials for a paper. I was able to save weblinks, documents, and quotes to the wiki and then just go to that particular page as I was writing. Finally, I linked the final product to the wiki. Wikis are a great organizational tool especially in a time when many of our classroom resources are digital and networked.
- Collaborative Understanding - If I were to teach middle school music again, I would try to use a Wiki as part of a music history/music study project for students to clarify their understanding of different styles of music. For example, back in the day, I had 2 or 3 classes of "beginners" each year. As we listened to different examples of music and of singing, I tried to help them understand how the different styles were related to each other (i.e., blues and hip hop). Using a Wiki would allow them to also share links to examples of music to support their ideas and opinions. I would then try to incorporate this project into one of our choir concerts to show that learning about music is about more than just singing or playing an instrument. (And this is based on the assumption that we would have access to computers in the school, and that the students would be able to use the computers after school if they did not have a computer at home.)
- Collaboration Between Teachers - The person I'm doing my consulting project with, after seeing our wiki and learning how they work, suggested using them for teachers to teach collaboratively, which is a use I hadn't thought of originally but could have a lot of potential. They could work together creating lesson plans, track how the lessons are being implemented in their various classrooms, give suggestions - this could be a few teachers in the same middle school doing an interdisciplinary unit, or teachers of the same subject in distant places working on the same unit together.
- Literature Circles in Elementary School - Elementary students, particularly fourth and fifth grade in our district have Lit Circles. They all read the same book and then are required to answer questions about the material and pose questions. A Wiki would be a perfect way to integrate technology into thier Lit Cirles. Instead of sharing their thoughts on paper, they could post them to the wiki, respond to their peers thoughts or questions and best of all perserve this work for the next class to review at sometime during ther exploration of the same novel. Each of our elementary classrooms has at least two computers. ~Becky Small
Links
Readings
- [Wild about Wikis]- [Wiki Pedagogy]
The website that follows will help you create your own classroom wikispace site
The videos that follow provide tutorials to create and edit wikispace pageshttp://www.wikispaces.com/content/for/teachers
How to Set-up and Create a Wikispace page
Wikispace Tour
Wikispace Basic Editing Tools
Creating a Project Website on Wikispace
WikiSpace Slightly More Advanced Editing Tools
Add a YouTube Video to Wikispace
It will take some time to download the video onto the blog, so be patient. After a few minutes the embedded video will turn dark blue with an arrow in the center of the video or text will appear on the embedded video similar to those shown above. You next click on PUBLISH POST and then you can view the blog to ensure the video on your blog site is working.
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