Coventry PD session on WIKIS

Simplify Your Teaching Using Wikis and Collaborative Software ! : 

Simplify Your Teaching Using Wikis and Collaborative Software ! A Web 2.0 Presentation for the Coventry School Department By Dave Fontaine March 12th, 2009 DaveFontaine1@gmail.com

Agenda : 

Agenda Web 2.0 Wikis

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What is Web 2.0? Aka: Read/Write Web Participatory Web

What is Web 2.0? : 

The Read-Only Web Powerful resource for educators & students, but… Information moves from publishers to consumers Information cannot be edited One-Way Web (Web 1.0) The Read/Write Web It is now as easy to create as it is to consume. Anyone can publish, share, and change information online Two-Way Web (Web 2.0) This is changing our world! What is Web 2.0?

Web 2.0 : 

Web 2.0 Restricted participation Web page design required html programming skills Knowledge sharing went one-way Interactive/Participatory As simple as using a word processor Maximizes the “Collective Intelligence” of a group benefits increase with the # of users Web 1.0

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link

Slide 7: 

link

COLLECTIVEINTELLIGENCE : 

COLLECTIVEINTELLIGENCE

INCLUDES: : 

INCLUDES: Definitions of CI Knowledge Management Collaborative Networking

Collective Intelligence : 

Collective Intelligence When the Whole Exceeds the Sum of Its Parts

THE INFORMATION AGE : 

THE INFORMATION AGE Knowledge and Information equal Power and Influence

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT : 

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

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LINK

COLLABORATIVE NETWORKING : 

COLLABORATIVE NETWORKING

Center for Collective Intelligence : 

Center for Collective Intelligence http://cci.mit.edu/index.html http://web.mit.edu/smcs/sloan/cci/2006/mit-bartos-metcalf-20sep2006-220k.ram

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Stanford University Wiki http://stanford.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page http://stanford.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

Curriki.orghttp://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome : 

Curriki.orghttp://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome

WikisanIntroduction : 

WikisanIntroduction

What you will learn : 

What you will learn What a wiki is-- What wikis are good for, and not so good for-- BRIEFLY view some wikis-- Tips on developing a successful wiki--

What is a wiki? : 

What is a wiki? A website that allows people to collaboratively edit the content without any computer programming knowledge Wiki = quick (in Hawaiian) All community members can ‘add to’ or ‘edit’ the work of others--improving it each time.

Wikis in Plain English : 

Wikis in Plain English

The most popular wiki : 

The most popular wiki Link

Tabula Rasa : 

Tabula Rasa Starts as a blank slate Pages are created and connected by hyperlinks No ownership of pages; anyone can change the work of others

Wiki components : 

Wiki components

Discussion area for each page : 

Discussion area for each page

The most powerful part : 

The most powerful part

List of changes made to all pages : 

List of changes made to all pages

Wikis vs. Blogs : 

Wikis vs. Blogs No ‘one person’ owns the content It’s shared by all No specific organization (hyperlinks) Members can edit each other’s work A person owns their post Organized in reverse chron. order Only author can edit their own work (others can comment)

Why wiki? : 

Why wiki? Easy to use Web-based Anyone can make changes Easily searched Many free and open-source wikis Flexible

Wikis in Practice : 

Wikis in Practice

Community wiki : 

Community wiki http://daviswiki.org/

How schools can use wikis : 

How schools can use wikis Staff Intranet Collaborative document editing School Guidebooks Collaboratively-developed manual Planning space for professional development Knowledgebase for ‘Institutional Memory’

Collaboratively-developed manual : 

Collaboratively-developed manual LINK

Collective Intelligence : 

Collective Intelligence http://www.libsuccess.org/

Planning space for conferences : 

Planning space for conferences http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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LET’S START We’ll begin with a simplified version of an online collaborative document. Google Docs Video

What is a WebQuest? : 

What is a WebQuest? A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web.

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My wiki link

Link to Lisa Kiernan’s entry : 

Link to Lisa Kiernan’s entry

Erin Wright’s entry : 

Erin Wright’s entry

Melville Elementary-Gr.2 : 

Melville Elementary-Gr.2

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LINK

Slide 45: 

LINK

The End : 

The End Questions? Future contact: DaveFontaine1@gmail.com