Wiki+Class

//**Wiki Class **//

Wikis encourage //shared knowledge construction//, as they are often built and edited by many users at once. Teachers and students can use wikis for publishing, organizing, and sharing virtually any kind of information – professional, creative or academic. Wikis are democratic tools that, implemented effectively, can enable students to take responsibility for learning outcomes, plan and make decisions, work together, publish to an audience beyond the classroom and, perhaps most importantly, teach others.


 * At is simplest, a wiki is a //really easy// way to make a website.** At its most robust, a wiki is a **collaborative, participatory, living, evolving content repository**. (Of course, the quality of the content is what matters). Wikis can be used to support classroom learning, professional development, collaborative document writing, planning and resource-building. **Essentially, a wiki is anything you want it to be.**

Wiki Survey Form Wiki Help Index


 * Wiki Instructional Design Project**

[|Online portfolio another option for job seekers (Lowell Sun article)]

My 2010 Intern who created an on-line shop portfolio Wiki


 * Shawsheen Faculty Wikis 2010 || Shawsheen Faculty Wikis 2012 ||

|| **Pre-Survey Form** ||
 * **Wiki Rubric**

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 * Introduction to Wikispaces
 * Wiki In plain English video

**Educational Wiki Samples:**

 * 1001 Flat World Tales **- Global writing workshop emphasizing peer editing and revision. The challenge: "You are a modern Scheherazade. You must tell an 'amazing' story that keeps your King interested in order to stay alive. You will have an advantage over Scheherezade, though: you can draft and revise your story until the 'King' -- three or four of your classmates -- judge your story is good enough to allow you to survive."**
 * Climate Change Debate **- Global Studies climate change debate. Teams of students research the issues, take positions on them, develop an action plan, and create a database of links to valuable information regarding the topic.**
 * Code Blue **- Sixth grade students learning about the human body open their own online "medical clinic."**
 * Constitutional Convention Gets an Update - **This wiki takes the history and politics of the 1787 Constitutional Convention and portrays them using the modern media tools -- "We were there!"**
 * Discovery Utopias **- Middle school students answer "all of the great questions" of society (What is the role of government, What is the responsibility of the individual, etc.) and come to a collaborative consensus about what a society truly needs in order to reach for perfection and sustainability. Click the Discovery Utopias link at the bottom of the navigation area (just above the visitor map) to view the student projects.**
 * Dr. Theodore Baehr and Euthanasia - **High school bioethics students write responses to an essay about Clint Eastwood film, //Million Dollar Baby//. Dr. Ted Baehr is the publisher and Editor-in-Chief of //Movieguide// and as such has a distinct point of view. Some students agree with him, some disagree. Student text and voices explain their point of view.**
 * Go West **- Third graders share their learning about Westward Expansion along the Oregon Trail.**
 * Great Debate 2008 **- Students in grades 8-12 lead an exploration and discussion of issues and candidates surrounding the 2008 presidential election.**
 * Greetings from the World **- A high school teacher in Croatia invites people from all over the world to share about their home countries using the Glogster "digital collage" tool. An ongoing, ever-growing collection of posts.**
 * Human Body Inquiry Projects **- Sixth graders design an inquiry project, then conduct experiments, build models, collect data and share their findings in a multimedia format of choice.**
 * HUMS3001: Censorship and Responsibility **- Students study "theoretical approaches to free speech, liberalism, censorship, and responsibility and apply them to contemporary debates in journalism, media, art, literary studies and academia."**
 * [|Kindergarten Counting Book] **- Photos to show each number from 1 to 100. (Wetpaint now offers** ad-free **education wikis).**
 * Kubler Reading **- Fourth grade students organize their of study Natalie Babbit's Tuck Everlasting on a wiki.**
 * [|Math 12V Outcomes Portfolio] **- Twelfth grade math students create an online review for the entire math curriculum.**
 * Schools in the Past **- First graders interview parents and grandparents to find out how schools have changed.**
 * Small Stones **- AP Calculus students write their own textbook by "scribe posting" a review of each day's lesson.**
 * [|Welker's Wikinomics] **- AP Economics wiki. Be sure to check out the** Discussion Forum**.**
 * Wiki Historia -** Encyclopedia of American History created by 7th and 8th grade students.
 * Source: http://k12learning20.wikispaces.com/8-wiki1

|| **Teacher Presentation** || ||
 * ===Wiki Cheat Sheet===

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 * ======Navigation Bar======


 * = ======Advanced Customizations ====== ||= ======New Wiki video tutorials====== ||= ======GMail setup====== ||= ======New Navigation Bar====== ||= ======Resize an Image====== ||= Widgets 2 ||= ======Brief Tour====== ||
 * = ======Dirpy YouTube Converter====== ||= ======Media Converter====== ||= Tag Filtering ||= Page Templates ||= Sub Pages ||= Comments Feature ||= ======Wiki Walk-Through====== ||
 * = Professional Development ||= ======Bulk File & File Management====== ||= Page Include ||= Glogster ||= Widets ||= [|Recycle Bin] ||= ======Educational Wikis====== ||