What's a wiki? The word "wiki" comes from Hawaiian language, meaning "quick" or "fast."
A wiki is a web site that lets any visitor become a participant: you can create or edit the actual site contents without any special technical knowledge or tools. All you need is a computer with an Internet connection. A wiki is continuously “under revision.” It is a living collaboration whose purpose is the sharing of the creative process and product by many. One famous example is Wiki-pedia, an online encyclopedia with no “authors” but millions of contributors and editors. http://www.wikipedia.org/
http://www.commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english
Who uses wikis? Wikis are used by people collaborating on projects or trying to share things online, such as family information and photos, technical information from users of a product, data from a research and development project, clubs, or collaborative projects.
College and university courses seem to be using wikis far more than the K-12 community right now. In K-12 education, wikis are being used by educators to conduct or follow-up after professional development workshops or as a communication tool with parents. The greatest potential, however, lies in student participation in the ongoing creation and evolution of the wiki.
Uses of a wiki
http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Uses_of_a_wiki
What is the difference between a wiki and a blog? A blog, or web log, shares writing and multimedia content in the form of “posts” (starting point entries) and “comments” (responses to the posts). While commenting, and even posting, are open to the members of the blog or the general public, no one is able to change a comment or post made by another. The usual format is post-comment-comment-comment, and so on. For this reason, blogs are often the vehicle of choice to express individual opinions.
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.http://www.wikispaces.com/ http://www.teachersfirst.com/content/wiki/http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2006/08/how-i-use-wikis-what-do-you-do.html
How to get started
http://pbwiki.com/ more info about academics http://pbwiki.com/academic.wiki
http://www.wikispaces.com/
http://www.wetpaint.com/ more info about it http://www.wetpaintcentral.com/
My wikishttp://artplusdesign.wetpaint.com/http://artplusdesign.pbwiki.com/
Wiki ideas for Education:
Design a collaborative project and shear resulting reports.
Collaborate with other schools.
Common problems and collaborate on how to solve them.
How do I use wikis with my class(es)?
Wiki ideas:
An online writer’s workshop or poetry workshop with suggested revisions from classmates. Start with drafts and collaborate. Make sure students use the notes tab to explain why they make changes.
Literary analysis of actual text on the wiki- with links to explanations of literary devices, a glossary to explain vocabulary, etc. You will be amazed how much they will find and argue.
Collaborative book reviews or author studies
A virtual art gallery with ongoing criticism and responses regarding artwork found online or originals from your art classroom.
Collections/montages of examples of an abstract concept, such as “surrealism”- why do you can this surrealist?- explain/refute.
Wikis just for teachers:
Visit the TeachersFirst wiki to add your own wiki ideas and successes!
How do I use wikis with my class(es)? How to get startedBefore you start your wiki with your class(es), make some basic decisions:
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?)
Once you an envision how your wiki will work and be used, it is best to get your principal or supervisor's approval if you are one of the first teachers using such a "new" web tool. Recent news stories about social networking sites have administrators on edge. Your school's Acceptable Use Policy may have some specific rules about using tools like wikis.
You want to find out the following:
Is it permissible to post student work to web?
What is the policy on posting student names (initials? pseudonyms?)
What is the policy on posting pictures of students or class scenes?
What is the policy on posting any information that might identify the wiki class?
Can these policies be met through security settings, parent and student agreements?
Does the district filering prevent access to the wiki tools from school? If so, will your administrator facilitate UNblocking of the wiki's exact URL?
Buy a wiki softareLooking for more information about wikis? Want to learn the basics about Confluence?
http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/wiki.jsp#whyuseawiki
Ross Mayfield Interview, founder of SocialText, which is the first Wiki company. He’s been at the center of a bunch of trends, including Web 2.0, blogging, social media, and boom and bust cycles. We hear what SocialText is up to, and what Ross is seeing from his office in downtown Palo Alto.
http://www.podtech.net/scobleshow/technology/1255/inside-the-first-wiki-company-socialtext
What benefits are there from student wiki participation?
Creativity
Build creativity skills, especially elaboration and fluency. Build creative flexibility in accepting others’ edits!
Introduce and reinforce the idea that a creative piece as never “done.”
Engagement
Increase engagement of all students.
Interpersonal
Develop interpersonal and communication skills, especially consensus-building and compromise, in an environment where the product motivates interpersonal problem-solving.
Develop true teamwork skills
Writing
Improve the most challenging phase of writing process: revision, revision, revision!
Increase flexibility to consider other ways of saying things.
Build an awareness of a wider, more authentic audience.
Links
http://www.edweek.org/dd/articles/2007/09/12/02wiki.h01.htmlhttp://animation.wikia.com/index.php?title=The_Simpsons&diff=3572&oldid=3571
http://arted20.ning.com/
http://asbvisualarts.wetpaint.com/page/Links+to+Cool+Places
http://avalonit.net/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.HomePage
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Visual_arts
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Not long ago, I met a Museum Studies Master's student from Georgetown. We were talking about the podcast she was making for the Hirshhorn. She got in to saying that soon she had to create a wiki for a class. However, she couldn't for the life of her figure out an easy way to do it. She was upset because she didn't see a way to make one without programming the whole thing herself.
I thought about her during your presentation today. If only she had seen your easy instructions! I'm grateful to think that I will never be in her frustrated, wiki-less situation. Thanks for a good, easy to understand presentation.
Thanks again for such a well-organized, easy-to-understand presentation! All of the time you spent searching for a perfect Wiki tutorial is much appreciated.
At some point yesterday (I'm not sure if it was during your presentation) someone referred to "layer tennis". The layer tennis activity seemed to incorporate digital media tools, provide a forum for "discussion" and include an emphasis on real-time learning. It is important for students to articulate thoughtful immediate responses to challenges posed by others, and I'm interested in how Wikis may be used to build this skill set. Perhaps, drawing from your ideas, a teacher may incorporate a computer into the work-station rotation. This computer would have access to a Wiki through which the student could communicate with another student in a different part of the country/Canada/etc. The students could be solving a problem, critiquing work, collaborating on a short internet-based research project... and return to their Wiki the following week to continue their conversation! This tool could even be used in conjunction with a webcam and microphone.
Your presentation was great. It was clear and easy to understand. I especially like the video about the camping trip. It really illustrated the whole concept Wiki beautifully.
Thanks,
Sara
You have describe in detail about to the wiki such as how to use it and how to get start it.In my point of view, wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup.Web Design Quote.
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