WIKI What is a wiki and why it’s important?!

WIKI What is a wiki and why it’s important?!

Definition “wiki” – Hawaiian for quick A wiki is an editable webpage that can be used for collaboration.

Collaboration teachers and teachers teachers and students teachers and students and parents administrator and teachers administrator and parents and more….

Collaboration

Teacher / Administrator Role creator facilitator participant moderator

Why the wiki is worth it post assignments group project editing / peer editing lecture / discussion materials map concepts group authoring data collection research projects and more!!! In no particular order…

HOW IT WORKS

Quick Wikispaces Tutorials tour/introduction tour/introduction

Getting Started Before you start your wiki with your class(es), make some basic decisions: How do you envision using the wiki? ( How will you explain it to parents and administration? Who will be able to see the wiki? (the public? members only?) Who will be able to edit the wiki? (the public? members only? vary by section?) Who will be able to join the wiki? (students only? parents? invited guests? the public?) What parts of the wiki will you “protect” (lock from changes)? Who will moderate the wiki for appropriateness, etc? Who will have the ability to reset changes? Will you, as the teacher, be notified of all changes? Will the wiki have Individual or global memberships? (by individual students if you want an individual record of who made changes, or with one log-in per group or class?) ~

For More Information For all the information you need about starting and using a wiki - Using a wiki - practices-for-using-wikis-in-education/ practices-for-using-wikis-in-education/ What to do with a wiki - use-wikis-for-a-more-collaborative-and-interactive-classroom/ use-wikis-for-a-more-collaborative-and-interactive-classroom/