Agenda

Introductions
Who are we and who are you?

**What is a wiki?**
A wiki is a website that allows the visitors themselves to easily add, remove, and otherwise edit and change and link the available content.

"Wiki" comes from Hawaiian, meaning "quick."

Wikis are a way to write and collaborate in the 21st Century.

media type="youtube" key="-dnL00TdmLY&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6" height="355" width="425" [|Wikis in Plain English] (or onYouTube - [|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY)]


 * //Discussion//:** How is a wiki different from a traditional website? From a blog? From a social networking site such as My Space or Facebook?

**How prevalent are wikis?**
[|Wikipedia] is the first large-scale wiki to evolve.

[|Curriki]

Wikis used in business from [|Information Week]:


 * Nokia has been using Socialtext wiki software for a year and a half to facilitate information exchange within its Insight & Foresight group.
 * Yahoo uses Twiki software to help its development team overcome the problems associated with working from a variety of separate locations.
 * [|Michelin China also uses Twiki] as a knowledge management tool. Jean-Noel Simonnet, from the company's IT department, writes, "Our purpose was to share ALL the information, procedures, setup documents, so that we were less dependent on a particular staff member's knowledge, so that nobody in the team has any document left in a personal directory."
 * Kodak, Cingular, Disney, Motorola, and SAP are also among the notable companies with [|wiki success stories].

[|Disaster coordination] - [|MN Bridge Collapse wiki]

[|One Laptop Per Child Wiki] - Designed to support philanthropic laptop initiative

[|Wikibooks] - a collection of textbooks being collaboratively created

Exploration and Observations
Select one of the wikis below to explore and consider the following questions during your exploration:

Application:
 * What is the purpose of this wiki?
 * What media are included on this wiki?
 * How are others contributing to content on wiki?
 * What is motivating about this wiki?
 * What is engaging about this wiki?
 * Anything else?

Mechanics:
 * Where is the discussion feature?
 * Where is the page history?
 * Is this wiki public or private?
 * Anything else?


 * Examples**
 * collaborate on projects -
 * International Collaborative Wiki - Jerusalem - Wiki being used to facilitate cultural collaboration between students in Canada and Jerusalem


 * communicate with parents
 * Weybridge Elementary School - Wiki being used as a website for an elementary school


 * design motivating learning environments -
 * Advanced Placement Comparative Review - Review site collaboratively authored by high school students
 * Code Blue - Interesting example of how an elementary science teacher has organized students into teams to work on "real world" problems
 * Dorman-Data-Digest is a high school social studies/history website
 * East Elementary Projects - at math connections wiki
 * LanguageLinks2006 - Wiki designed to facilitate articulation, induction, and mentoring for student teachers
 * Madame Shackelford - Example of a wiki that is taking advantage of technological affordances for teaching and learning French


 * engage students in social issues
 * [|EBP Independent Research Project - Social Issues Wiki]
 * [|GeoPedia] - National Geographic


 * display student work and evaluate progress
 * art110 - Superb example of the many ways a wiki can be used to support teaching and learning . . . note the publication of student work (photo of the week), engaging students with text (daily questions), etc.


 * facilitate clubs and professional learning communities
 * Loveland High School - Professional Learning Communities - Wiki being used to facilitate professional learning communities in a high school in Colorado


 * improve productivity


 * scaffold writing
 * Advanced Placement Comparative Review - Review site collaboratively authored by high school students


 * support professional development
 * Edorigami - Extensive wiki with links to examples of how various social technologies can be used for educational purposes (categorized in terms of levels of critical thinking and multiple intelligences), along with rubrics (and sample student entries for each level of the rubric!) for blogging, podcasting, etc.
 * Information Fluency - Outstanding list of links (on a Wikispaces wiki) to educational blogs, edtech standards, research reports, tech-related videos, and other web 2.0 resources that would be useful in professional development re: 21st Century Literacies and tech integration
 * Sample Wikis - A list of wikis, organized by subject area. Scroll down to the professional development section for a full list

How are wikis transforming what it means to teach, learn, and understand?

 * Cautions & Consequences
 * Changes thinking, writing
 * Compelling
 * Cooperation v. collaboration
 * Fosters more responsive teaching, shifts balance of power

Practice
Sign up for a space at [|Wikispaces], where as a K-12 educator your space can be advertisement free! Name your space "practice-macul-//topic"// - this first space will be a practice space, or "sandbox" for your to explore and develop your skills. You will be able to delete this space later. During our practice time we will insert text, graphics, media, additional pages, and edit the navigation!

Designing and Planning a New Wiki
Who is your intended audience and/or coauthors for your wiki? What kinds of information will your wiki contain? Will you be creating the basic structure of the wiki (pages and initial content)? Think about how you may use the features of the wiki environment:
 * Security - will your wiki be public, protected or private?
 * Discussion - members of your wiki can discuss on each page of the wiki
 * History - all changes are recorded, so you can see a time stamp as well as specifically what change was made.

Need some quick help with wikispaces? Check out the brief video tutorials - http://www.wikispaces.com/site/tour#files

**Copyright**
As educators we must model ethical use of media. Know your [|copyright and fair use guidelines]! We need to help students understand the ethical use of technology, including respecting other people's content. They will be expected to behave ethically in the workplace.

[|Creative Commons] is a great place to learn about copyright and access materials.

Looking for stock photography? Try [|stock.xchng] and [|morguefile]

What does the research say?
[|Wiki as a Teaching Tool] from the Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge and Learning Objects

Assessment
Wikis allow for students to interact with real audiences for authentic purposes. Consider how a "real" audience "assesses" a performance. What kind of feedback might performers expect? How would a director assess a performance? What kind of feedback would the director provide? How might you use those principles to inform the way you use the features of the wiki to assess students?

Kasumi Kato & Lauren Rosen's Rubric (in English for a Japanese class) - http://www.actfl.org/files/public/updatedrubric.pdf

Vicki Davis' Wiki Assessment Rubric - http://k12online.wm.edu/WikiGradingRubric.pdf

Other wiki providers
[|PBwiki]

[|PikiWiki]

Closing
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