1. (Hawaiian for fast) "Wiki" is a backronym for "What I Know Is" A Cool Tool to enhance Student Learning

2. What is a Wiki? wiki A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who has permission to access it to contribute or modify its content. Wikis Wikis are collaborative websites. A wiki is a website where users can add, remove, and edit every page they have been given access to using a web browser 2

3. How can a Wiki help with 21 st Century Skills? Learning and Innovation Skills o Communication and Collaboration Life and Career Skills o Social and Cross-cultural Skills Information, Media and Technology Skills o ICT (Information, communication & technology) Literacy 3

4. Looking at it another way… 4 http://www.commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english Click on link below to see video

5. Soooo... How can they be used? Classroom Webpage- posting assignments Forum for writing Build Classroom Community online Communication for students Use with other teachers to share information 5

6. 6 Common Websites with free Wikis for teachers: –PBWorks –Wikispaces http://pbworks.com/ http://www.wikispaces.com/ We use PBWorks at the Middle school. I like it better than wikispaces

7. 7 An Example… Social Studies Current Events Project – John Deserto, Middle school Student posting: Students can upload pictures, videos, write text, include links to websites, insert glogs, widgets, etc. Teacher can put project information into wiki

8. 8 An Example continued… Social Studies Current Events Project Students and teacher can comment on student work Teacher can monitor comments and student work  Teacher controls user privileges – writer, editor, view only or make administrator.  PBWorks generates usernames and passwords for students under teacher account.

9. Create Your Own http://pbworks.com/ 9

10. 10 Create Your Own cont. Go back to moodle for more information on how to create your own account.

11. Resources Wikispaces example and information about wikis http://spacewithapurpose.wikispaces.com/Wikis+Home#What%20Does%20Wiki%20Mea n%20and%20Stand%20Forhttp://spacewithapurpose.wikispaces.com/Wikis+Home#What%20Does%20Wiki%20Mea n%20and%20Stand%20For? Web 2.0 Tools for the Wiki www.voki.com speaking avatarwww.voki.com www.schooltube.com uploaded videoswww.schooltube.com www.toondo.com build cartoonswww.toondo.com www.polldaddy.com create and embed pollswww.polldaddy.com http://edu.glogster.com/ Glogsterhttp://edu.glogster.com/ 11