Wiki+Workshop

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**Setting the scene**
//“Literacy has always been about using the most powerful cultural tools available to make and communicate meaning. At the present, those tools happen to be multimedia tools that use video, graphics, sound, and traditional text in a hypermedia format. If we or our students don't know how to critically use these tools to their fullest meaning-constructive potential, then we—and they—are illiterate" ([|Wilhelm, 2000, p. 7]).//


 * What Can You Do With a Wiki?**
 * communicate with parents and community members
 * design motivating learning environments and materials
 * engage students in social issues
 * evaluate student progress
 * facilitate student clubs and professional learning communities
 * improve personal productivity and organization
 * participate in collaborative interclass, interschool, and international projects
 * scaffold the development of student writing
 * support action research and professional development
 * transform what it means to teach, learn, and understand!

So what's a wiki?
Understanding and authoring in the wiki environment.

What's a wiki? A wiki is a type of website where multiple authors can be designated to edit and create content. Wikis have discussion pages, history to view previous edits, and can be public, semi-private, or private.

[|CommonCraft] created a video that explains how a wiki works

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**Explore**
//"Communities can't be manufactured, but you can design the conditions under which they are most likely to emerge, and encourage their growth when they do" ([|Rheingold, 1998]).//

1. What kinds of content are in these wikis? 2. How do these wikis provide opportunities for advocacy, communication, collaboration, innovation? Ah-Bon French middle school wiki [|David Warlick's CoLearners] shows how a presenter can put presentations, notes, handouts, and invite participants. FrauLyon high school German wiki [|LHS French classes] - Toni Theisen's French classes Mlle. Fox's classes, French Teacher Mme Mina Kim, French Teacher, has a fantastic wiki. Mme Thomas French class wiki Teresita Eldridge Spanish Toni Theisen, ACTFL 2009 Teacher of the Year, uses a wiki for her starting point for instruction and professional development Wanglaoshi Wiki Chinese K-1 wiki Guy Dippolito has a wiki for each of his classes, brand new this year to wikis.(Private wiki, for Kendall demo only)
 * Guiding questions:**
 * Examples**

[|Flat Classroom Project] has new collaborative projects for 2009-2010 Youth Wiki is a collaborative project across several schools

LanguageLinks2006 and specifically the Intern Level Methods shows how wikis can be an interactive tool for World Language Methods courses

ISTE has a [|NETS Implementation site] [|Curriki]- creating lesson plans and sharing in a wiki format

Educational Wikis provides a rationale and examples for K-12 TeachWeb20 is an interesting collaborative wiki evaluating Web 2.0 tools

[|Wikibooks] - open content textbooks

Professional Development Videos - elementary, with videos of teaching


 * Discuss:** What features did you find?

So if students are creating wikis, how can you assess them? [|Vicki Davis] has a [|wiki grading rubric] and [|Read*Write*Think] has a [|wiki rubric and interesting lesson on protest songs.]

Thinking about the purpose of your wiki

 * Design Considerations**
 * **Technical*** Start a wiki
 * Add text
 * Add links
 * Upload files (watch file names)
 * Embed media
 * Add pages
 * Create custom navigation
 * Manage the wiki ||  || **Philosophical**
 * What is the purposes of your wiki?
 * Who will be allowed to edit pages?
 * Who is the audience?
 * What kind of content will you include?
 * Will students be participating in this wiki?
 * Will each student have his or her own page? ||

Today we are going to:

 * create a wiki
 * add content (text, links, photo, documents, embedded content)
 * add pages
 * create navigation
 * review the page history
 * explore the wiki management features


 * Let's get started!**

If you don't have a wikispaces.com account, then go to [] [|Visit this page to get the advertisement-free wikispace or click the image below].

And, need help? Check out the [|video tours] of Wikispaces to learn how to begin editing your page, add images and media, and personalize your space.

The main page of the Wikispaces Help has quite an array of help topics to chose from. For more specific information that has been asked for by teachers, it can be found in the Teachers Section of the Wikispaces help. There are a few more resources about halfway down the page under heading number 9 (a couple PDFs and PowerPoints), and there are links to video tutorials on that page!

Digitally Speaking has an eloquent page about integrating wikis into classroom practice. Now that you have had technical practice, enjoy growing your wiki and reading about other educators' experiences with wikis!