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Welcome to the Wild World of Wikis
Ed Considine
Boston Public Schools
Agenda
Overview of Digital Tools
21st Century Skills and Standards.
Wikis In Education
Explore and Create
ISTE Teacher Standards
The "NETS for Teachers ”
includes five categories
(1) Facilitate and inspire student learning
and creativity,
(2) Design and develop digital-age
learning experiences and assessments,
(3) Model digital-age work and learning,
(4) Promote and model digital citizenship
and responsibility
(5) Engage in professional growth and
leadership.
TSAT Skills
 Identify and evaluate developing technologies
as they relate to one's subject area, grade
level and student population.
 Develop web pages for instruction and
communication.ret I
 Using the most appropriate communications
technologies (e.g., multimedia presentations,
Web pages, digital videotapes, desktoppublished documents).
Course Product
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Lesson/Unit Title:
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Grade Level:
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Part I. Curriculum Planning
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Standards
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BPS
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Student Technology Competencies
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ISTE
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21st Century Skills
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List the standards that you will address with this unit.
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Lesson Overview: Topic
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Goals
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Activities
Web 2.0
The Read Write Web
Tools that allow users to create content
Active participants
Constructing Knowledge
Responsibility for learning
Motivation for learning
Instructors as facilitators
Learning is an active, social process
Collaborating among learners
Engaging and challenging the learner
Assessing
Pause
What types of collaboration do you use
in your classroom or do you see in your
school?
What are the benefits? The challenges?
What is a wiki?
from the Hawaiian word for quickly
 a Wiki is a type of website that allows
the visitors to add, remove, and
sometimes edit the available content. ...
A collection of web pages that can be
edited by a group.
…is a website that allows multiple users
to create, modify and organize web page
content in a collaborative manner.
…is a collaborative website where the
users are responsible for creating and
maintaining the content.
Wikis Vs Blogs
A blog, or web log, shares writing and multimedia
content in the form of “posts” (starting point entries)
and “comments” (responses to the posts).
 A wiki has a far more open structure and allows others
to change what one person has written. This
openness may trump individual opinion with group
consensus.
Why use wikis in education?
 Wikis encourage collaborative learning
and information sharing
 They increase student engagement and
participation
 Wikis facilitate communication between
teachers and parents and guardians
Teachers are talking
How can wikis be used in the
classroom?
 Group Projects
 Assignments
 Resource Collections
 Peer Review
 Group FAQ
 Parent involvement
 Online Newspaper
Group Projects
 Alignment: Avoid confusing email chains by
collaboratively building and editing project
information in a centralized location.
 Tracking: Collect all assignment details in one
place.
 Scheduling: Plan out and manage a shared
project calendar.
 Brainstorming:
 Drafting
 Researching:
 Connecting
Teacher Collaboration
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Curriculum Sharing: Post and comment on
lesson plans and syllabi.
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Online Resource Collection: Share your
favorite online learning tools, blogs, websites,
etc.
Assignment Sharing: Post successful
homework, course materials, study
guides, and more.
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Group FAQ: Post and respond to
questions on a given topic.
Producing rather than consuming
Active not passive learning
Here’s what some teachers say:
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“Never in 25 years of teaching have I seen a more powerful motivator for writing than blogs and wikis.” …
“And that’s because of the audience. Writing is not just taped on the refrigerator and then put in the recycle
bin. It’s out there for the world to see. Kids realize other people are reading what they write” – Mark Ahlness
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“Even when they’re out sick, students work on their blogs.” – Carol Barsotti
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“I’ve got 6th graders coming in during their lunch and after school to add articles to their blog and to respond
to their classmates’ articles.” – Al Gonzalez
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“The response has been tremendous. Students seem so much more willing to blog in their own space and
time. They seem less inhibited and more enthusiastic.” – Beth Lynne Ritter-Guth
Wikis in Action
Wikipedia
Video
Classroom Wiki
Bud the Teacher
Grammar School Wiki
Resources
Online Quizzes
Teachertube
Schooltube
Images podcast
Contact:
21st Century Wiki
Ed Considine
[email protected]