Wikis in the Classroom

Slide 1: Vicki A. Davis Westwood Schools © 2007 All Rights Reserved Class Wiki – http://westwood.wikispaces.com Flat Classroom Wiki http://flatclassroomproject.wikispaces.com

Slide 2: Presentation Outline Why do we wiki? 1. What are wikis? 2. Pedagogical Classroom Use of Wikis 3. Time Permitting:   How does a wiki work  Wiki Assessment  Common Administrator Questions 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 2

Slide 3: How it will work When you see:   We will vote  The Mike will be open 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 3

Slide 4: Section 1 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 4

Slide 5: Have you heard of? Vote “Yes” or “No” in Elluminate 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 5

Slide 6: Authentic Assessment “Simple memorization and basic skills is no longer adequate for the modern employment market. Students need to have a broad base of knowledge and the ability to perform complex tasks effectively. Authentic Assessment includes many learning processes in the evaluation of student performance” Source: Encyclopedia of Educational Technology, San Diego State University - http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/articles/authassess/bigpuzzle. , 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 6

Slide 7: Have you heard of? Vote “Yes” or “No” in Elluminate 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 7

Slide 8: Project Based Learning Source: Profound Learning Systems, Educational solutions Overview http://www.profoundlearning.com/Content/EducationS 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 8

Slide 9: Have you heard of? Vote “Yes” or “No” in Elluminate 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 9

Slide 10: 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.h 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 10

Slide 11: What is the difference? Passive Learning   Active Learning 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 11

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Slide 13: Is Passive Learning really learning? Vote “Yes” or “No” in Elluminate 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 13

Slide 14: Students Must Be Collaborators   Synthesizers  Explainers  Problem Solvers! 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 14

Slide 15: Any comments or questions? Coming up Next: 2. What is a wiki? 3.Pedagogical Uses of Wikis in the Classroom Time Permitting: How does a wiki work Wiki Assessment Common Administrator Questions 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 15

Slide 16: Section 2. 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 16

Slide 17: What are wikis? Inventor: Ward Cunningham 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 17

Slide 18: Requires no knowledge of HTML 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 18

Slide 19: Have you ever used a wiki before this class? Vote “Yes” or “No” in Elluminate 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 19

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Slide 21: Do you use Wikipedia as a resource ? Vote “Yes” or “No” in Elluminate 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 21

Slide 22: Have you ever edited wikipedia? Vote “Yes” or “No” in Elluminate 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 22

Slide 23: Why I chose wikis: Free   Runs on older Computers  Runs on slower Internet  Easy  “Think Pair Share” for the Computer 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 23

Slide 24: Why I still use wikis: Learning Goes Up   Excitement Increases  It breeds experts  Student participation tracking  I can control who joins/ edits/ sees  A great “scrapbook” for digital artifacts  Learning Theory at Work! 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 24

Slide 25: My class Wiki http://westwood.wikispaces.com 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 25

Slide 26: mashups social bookmarking social software tagging blogs open source web apps podcasts RSS photosharing wikis Internet telephone Online publishing

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Slide 28: Any comments or questions? Coming up Next: 2.Pedagogical Uses of Wikis in the Classroom (with examples) Time Permitting: How does a wiki work Wiki Assessment Common Administrator Questions 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 28

Slide 29: Section 3. 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 29

Slide 30: The Wiki-Centric Classroom © 2006, Victoria A. Davis, All2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. (c) Rights Reserved. 02/25/07 30

Slide 31: My Seven Classroom Wiki Uses Lesson Summaries I. Notes Collaboration II. Concept Introduction & Exploratory III. Projects Learn Shares IV. Individual Assessments V. Rewards VI. Classroom Organization VII. 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 31

Slide 32: Examples: Lesson Summaries Word Processing   http://westwood.wikispaces.com/Word+Processing  See Ex 5: http://westwood.wikispaces.com/Word+Ex+5 Computer Science: Storage Devices   http://westwood.wikispaces.com/Storage+Devices 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 32

Slide 33: Example: Notes Collaboration http://westwood.wikispaces.com/Computer+Hard  02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 33

Slide 34: Exploratory Projects Intro to Web 2   http://westwood.wikispaces.com/Web+2.0 Mashups   http://westwood.wikispaces.com/Mashup+Madness 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 34

Slide 35: Learn Shares Computer Security & Privacy   http://westwood.wikispaces.com/Chapter+1+-+Security+  Safe Purchasing Online http://westwood.wikispaces.com/Safe+purchasing+online (Notice the Avatars!) 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 35

Slide 36: Examples: Individual Assessments Semester Assessments   http://westwood.wikispaces.com/Scenario+2  http://flatclassroomproject.wikispaces.com 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 36

Slide 37: Example: Rewards Wiki Hall of Fame -  http://westwood.wikispaces.com/Wiki+Hall+of+Fa  Blog Hall of Fame http://westwood.wikispaces.com/Blogger+Hall+of 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 37

Slide 38: Example: Classroom Organization HomePage of the Wiki   http://westwood.wikispaces.com  http://flatclassroomproject.wikispaces.com 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 38

Slide 39: Places to create wikis Wikispaces (Public or private)  www.wikispaces.com  WetPaint (Community) www.wetpaint.com  PBWiki www.pbwiki.com 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 39

Slide 40: Play in the Sandbox http://k12wiki.wikispaces.com   When you want to “play” go to the Sandbox. 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 40

Slide 41: Any comments or questions? My question for you: Can you think of any other uses for wikis in a classroom? Coming up Next: Time Permitting: How does a wiki work Wiki Assessment Common Administrator Questions 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 41

Slide 42: Bonus 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 42

Slide 43: Overview of a wiki http://k12wiki.wikispaces.com   Page View and Editing  Go in your personal ‘ Sandbox’ Page View   Floating toolbar Discussion   History  Notify Me 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 43

Slide 44: 5 Tips for Wiki Work Small Edits 1. Communicate 2. Use the History 3. Discuss 4. Refresh Before Writing 5. 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 44

Slide 46: This let’s you monitor 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 46

Slide 47: Drawbacks Concurrent editing   Restoration of a page 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 47

Slide 48: 5 Tips for Wiki Work Small Edits 1. Communicate 2. Use the History 3. Discuss 4. Refresh Before Writing 5. 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 48

Slide 49: Any comments or questions? Coming up Next: Time Permitting: Wiki Assessment Common Administrator Questions 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 49

Slide 50: Wiki Assessment Collaborative Effort   Visual Appeal  Organization  Hyperlinks  Original, Intelligent Wording  Spelling, Grammar & Punctuation  Completion of Topic Assignment 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 50

Slide 51: Sample Rubrics A note about posting full rubrics –   http://westwood.wikispaces.com/Wiki+Hall+of+Fame Flat Classroom Rubrics   http://flatclassroomproject.wikispaces.com/Rubrics Semester Assessment   http://westwood.wikispaces.com/Scenario+2 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 51

Slide 52: Any comments or questions? Coming up Next: Time Permitting: Common Administrator Questions 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 52

Slide 53: Permissions Editing   Public (Anyone)  Members Only  Administrators Only Viewing   Public (Anyone)  Private – members Only 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 53

Slide 54: Managing Your Space Permissions   Adding Members  Locking Pages 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 54

Slide 55: Free Wikis www.pbwiki.com   www.seedwiki.com  www.wikispaces.com  www.schtuff.com  www.wikicities  Source: http://pascal.vanhecke.info/2005/10/30/free-hosted-wikis-compari 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 55

Slide 56: It’s your turn Plan your wiki   Create your wikispace  Click on your user ID  Click on Make a New Space  Name your space 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 56

Slide 57: It’s your turn – What you can add! Add RSS feeds   Add video  Add pictures 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 57

Slide 58: Any comments or questions? Time Permitting: “Ticket to Leave” Each Person share one thing that they’ve learned that they think will impact their teaching. 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 58

Slide 59: Whether it be by voice, cell phone, e-mail, i-Pod, blog, wiki, video, website, or another as yet uninvented thing, I will communicate my message via any means that students will hear. I will not be afraid of the medium if it is a highway to my students’ psyche. I will not erect roadblocks where I should be building onramps! Vicki Davis, Teacher 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 59

Slide 60: Who am I? Teacher, Technology Administrator 4 years   Westwood Schools, Camilla, GA eduBlogger   Cool Cat Teacher  Tech Learning Blogger  Women of Web 2.0 Prior Experience   Trainer for public schools, entrepreneur – 10 years  Telecommunications Industry Manager – 4 years  Georgia Tech grad Personal   Mother of 3 (2 have Learning Challenges) 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 60

Slide 61: Wiki Experience Publications / presentations   Wikis in Education – Stewart Mader, ed., Brown University  Terry Freedman – Coming of Age Second Edition  K12 online conference News Media   Wired News, Boston Globe, Edutopia, 20+ national US publications Awards:   School Wiki - Wikispace of the Month – December 2005  Flat Classroom Project – Winner - 2006 Edublog Award for Best Wiki  Cool Cat Teacher Blog – Finalist – 2006 Edublog Award for Best Teacher blog 02/25/07 (c) 2007, Victoria A. Davis, All Rights Reserved. 61