Use this page to access links to examples and to record your team's thoughts and questions about each topic.
Working with Wikis
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1. As an online space for committees to work collaboratively. For example, this wiki is used by the Travis Unified School District for revising the district's technology plan.
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| 2. As a place for students to work collaboratively. For example, this wiki is used by Canadian AP Calculus students. |
| 3. For online projects such as flatplanet. |
| 4. As a collaborative teaching and learning tool such as Wikids. |
| 5. pbwiki: Tool used to build this wiki. |
Discuss the ideas that have been presented about wikis. Choose a typist who will summarize team responses as you report out.
Questions:
1. How can wikis be used to enrich academic content?
Wikis can be used in a number of ways for content enrichment.
Collaborative homework assignments allow students to turn in assignments and then the teacher can grade the assignment.
After that, the student could then correct the questions they missed.
2. How can wikis be used to engage staff and students?
Wikis can be used as collaboration tools without geographic boundaries.
3. What social, legal, or ethical issues might arise with use of wikis?
(Social) Equitable access would need to be offered in order to make the collaboration effective across all socio-economic groups.
(Legal) Schools need to ensure their A.U.P. (Acceptable Use Policy) addresses abuse by students both at school and off school grounds to relieve the school of liability and make the student accountable.
Additional examples--Learn More!
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| 6. For collaborative committee work. Click on this link to watch an online presentation that demonstrates this idea. |
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7. Wiki in a K-12 Classroom: Resources for educators interested in learning more about this tool.
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| 8. In place of a classroom website. For example, 5th grade Bellingham teacher Elise Mueller's classroom wiki. |
| 9. Here are additional classroom examples from primary grades through high school: Examples of educational wikis. |
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10. wikipedia (Link to online encyclopedia created by users) and wikibooks (Link to online books created by users).
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Educational Blogs
Discuss the ideas that have been presented about blogs. Choose a typist who will summarize team responses as you report out.
Questions:
1. How can blogs be used to enrich academic content?
Blogs provides an opportunity for students to give feedback or comments which aide understanding and retention. Also, it provides an opportunity for several people to participate in the discussion.
2. How can blogs be used to engage staff and students?
In some ways, blogs places teachers and students on an equal playing field of communication. The teacher becomes a facilitator of knowledge as opposed to a keeper of knowledge. Students become equal contributors to the information.
3. What social, legal, or ethical issues might arise with use of blogs?
Accountibility, content reliability, appropriateness, student-anonominity
Webtop Applications: Online word processing and spreadsheets
Discuss the ideas that have been presented about web-top applications. Choose a typist who will summarize team responses as you report out.
Questions:
1. How can webtop applications be used to enrich academic contect?
Webtop applications can place document editing tools in classrooms that may not previously had access to suites such as Microsoft Office.
2. How can webtop applications be used to engage staff and students?
staff and students can work on documents together, thus fostering teamwork and group participation during the document creation process.
3. What social, legal, or ethical issues might arise with use of webtop applications?
This actually helps answer or at least band-aid some equitable access issues as the software is free and available to anyone with a computer and an Internet connection - both of which are provided at school.
Webtop Applications: Sharing presentations
Workshop Examples
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1. slideshare: upload PowerPoint files
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2. VoiceThread: upload variety of file types and add voice or textcomments
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3. animoto: create free 30-second video clips using photos and public domain music
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Discuss the ideas that have been presented about web-top applications. Choose a typist who will summarize team responses as you report out.
Questions:
1. How can online presentations be used to enrich academic content?
A well-designed presentation can always supplement instruction.
Additionally, having it online provides anywhere-anytime access to the document for future individual refreshers.
2. How can online presentations be used to engage staff and students?
Good presentations go a long way to engage both students and staff.
3. What social, legal, or ethical issues might arise with use of online presentations?
Adequate access to some electronic equipment needed to create very high quality presentations may be an issue for some.
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