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Using Wikis in Education!
"Imagine a school with children that can read and write, but teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live." -Peter Cochrane **Jeff Ingraham ESU#3 jingraham@esu3.org**

http://elmwoodmurdock.pbwiki.com/ http://elmwoodmurdock.wikispaces.com/ http://elmwoodmurdock.wetpaint.com/

Comparing Wikis http://learningweb2.wikispaces.com/Comparing+wiki+services

Why use ad-free wikis http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2007/11/how-flat-classroom-project-almost-died.html



What is a Wiki? From a Hawaiian-language word for fast, "wiki" is a shortened form of "wiki wiki". A wiki is a website that allows anyone to easily add, remove, and otherwise edit and change available content, typically without the need for registration at the site. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for groupauthoring. The page you are looking at right now is a wiki page that has been set to restrict who can, and can not, edit it's contents. The best known example of a wiki is Wikipedia where everyone can edit the "encyclopedia".

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Simultaneous Editing of wikis can be a problem – When more than one user attempts to modify the page at the same time, one of the users changes will be lost as one user saves over the work of another. While this issue may seem like an insurmountable obstacle to using wikis, there are some strategies that you and your students can employ to address this issue:

1. Make small edits 2. Communicate with your partner(s) 3. Know how to use the history function of the Wiki 4. Before you edit, click refresh

WHY BOTHER?

http://www.21stcenturyskills.org

Random Name generator http://www.kleimo.com/random/name.cfm

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Iste NETS Standards for Students http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/ForStudents/2007Standards/NETS_for_Students_2007.htm

Iste NETS for teachers http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/ForTeachers/2008Standards/NETS_for_Teachers_2008.htm

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Time Magazine How to bring our Schools out of the 20th Century http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1568480,00.html

Using Wikispaces http://learningweb2.wikispaces.com/How+to+Edit+Wiki

Using PBWiki http://learningweb2.wikispaces.com/Using+PBWiki

Help at PBWiki http://pbwiki.com/content/supportcenter

Help at Wikispaces http://www.wikispaces.com/help+Teachers

Wiki While you Work Video http://k12online.wm.edu/WikiWhileYouWork.mov

7 Things you should know about Wikis

**Wiki Examples**
What will happen to Sylvia? Can you help us to write our story? Choose where you would like to go in the story. Add new pages and new links to make the story really interactive! To add to any of the pages, click on the Edit This Page tab at the top, add your part and click on Save at the bottom. Click on Story start in the menu to get going! http://kingston.wikispaces.com/

http://thewright3.wikispaces.com/ http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com/ http://blog.wikispaces.com/2008/09/100000-free-k12-wikis-and-250000-more.html http://ksuanth.wetpaint.com/ http://csi.wetpaint.com/page/Write+a+CSI+Episode+Together%21 http://mrcarroll.wetpaint.com/page/About+Me http://mrcarroll.wetpaint.com/page/Writing http://plwp.wetpaint.com/ http://wiki.classroom20.com/live+conversations http://blackhistorymonth.wikispaces.com/ http://wiki.classroom20.com/English http://wiki.classroom20.com/expanded_writing