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?
A common problem in low scoring urban high schools is the "dumbing down" of content by teachers. Teachers and schools in several districts have already demonstrated that enriching content pays dividends in raising student achievement. By using Wikis, students who are given the opportunity to create content, can easily demonstrate their ability to exceed expectations. Students typically want to post only their best, most thought-productive work even when teacher prompts do not force analysis and evaluation. Public student responses can help teachers (or help administrators to help teachers) to raise their expectations.
Curriculum Wiki is an example of the high quality of student work when the opportunity is available.
2. How can wikis be used to engage staff and students?
This one is easy. Staff and students are all interested in something. Wikis allow participants to bring to light the directions of their choice.
3. What social, legal, or ethical issues might arise with use of wikis?
Oh yeah, that pesky first amendment (whose rights students do not leave at the schoolhouse gate). Student material posted from home on a home computer is not as easily banned as school work done on a school computer. Schools will have to help students recognize that there are ethical issues (that may not be under school control) that arise in the use of Wikis.
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?
Once again, students who are given the opportunity to create content can demonstrate their ability to exceed expectations. Students not only post their best work, they are quick to make corrections to public documents. These public student responses can help teachers (or help administrators to help teachers) to raise their expectations.
2. How can blogs be used to engage staff and students? (Type answer here.)
3. What social, legal, or ethical issues might arise with use of blogs? (Type answer here.)
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? (Type answer here.)
2. How can webtop applications be used to engage staff and students? (Type answer here.)
3. What social, legal, or ethical issues might arise with use of webtop applications? (Type answer here.)
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? (Type answer here.)
2. How can online presentations be used to engage staff and students? (Type answer here.)
3. What social, legal, or ethical issues might arise with use of online presentations? (Type answer here.)
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