Wiki

=Creating an online learning space with a wiki!=

The presentation of this PD is created as a PDF in the Resources section of this page.

What's a wiki? Examples of educational wikis Best educational wikis awards 2009 = =

Classroom or Unit learning space -

 * 21c student wiki Mainly used for rich tasks
 * St Monica's senior area wiki Combination of admin and tasks
 * St Augustine's senior area wiki Mainly used for admin
 * Mr Boyers Class All class activities and information
 * Changing Australia unit Inquiry unit where students are members of the wiki

Area / faculty / conference online learning space -

 * Sandhurst ICT conference wiki
 * The 23 Things

Subject / course specific wiki -

 * Online PD course on Smartboards
 * Mathex Yr 7 Maths students (NZ)
 * Blooms Digital Taxonomy

School collaborative space -

 * Westwood schools

Project / Inquiry learning unit -

 * Sandhurst Kids Conference
 * Changing Australia unit
 * Progressive Story wiki


 * Getting tricky with wikis
 * Cool Tools for Schools

= = Vokis are motivating for kids. Junior class using vokis L3C Telling about ourselves. L1 Halloween Remember when selecting types to scroll down to last option, other. Educationalwikis, a Wikispaces site that deals with wikis in education. GO to general discussion on wikis

=Resources= =**Part 1: Introduction and resources**=
 * Go2Web20
 * Go2Web20

**Part 3: Editing your wiki**
=**Considerations** = **Parents**  - Get parents excited about your wiki by informing and including them.  - Involve parents in understanding the wiki by providing a parent page. **Students**  - Make and sign a Wiki Agreement, complete with stated consequences, for your wiki, even if  students have already signed an Acceptable Use Policy for the school. Place it on the wiki.  - Let students see it a learning tool, not a ‘special event’ they use sometimes. **Copyright**  - You MUST have this discussion with your students and as teachers we must model this and  enforce vigilantly. Your wiki must only host copyright material.  - Most wikis fall under a special copyright agreement called Creative Commons. This  essentially means that any content users place on the wiki can be used by others under a  "share and share alike" arrangement. **Editing/Vandalism**  - Since the wiki will often involve changing work done by others, it is especially important that <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> you have an open discussion about the difference between "vandalizing" and making changes <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> to improve the content. <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> - A change intended for the good will always include some written "discussion" of the reasoning behind the change.

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