Thursday, March 5, 2009

Wiki Resources

Ashley

Wetpaint – An easy to use, ad-free wiki. The site can be open to the public to edit, or can be set so that only people you invite can edit the site.

PBwiki - PBwiki lets you monitor changes to your wiki by email and RSS. You also have the ability to reverse any changes instantly.

Chenelle

YMCI Wiki . WOW! This wiki really got me thinking about resources I can provide next year’s students. I like the way students can simply click on the subject they need help with and then from there choose their specific class and teacher. I would like to create something similar to this with scanned homework assignments and resource guides. For example along my sidebar I could have Math: Unit 1, 2, etc.

Wikiteacher. I am really excited about this site. While it is not a true wiki, at least not from what I can tell, it is a vast resource of lesson plans and DEMONSTRATION VIDEOS. These are GREAT! I am going to share this resource with my entire staff. It was a great find.

Cindy

Wikispaces for Educators. Start a wiki in 30 seconds.

Educational wikis (examples of many). There are many examples from all grade levels. It is a great site to check out the wiki possibilities for your classroom.

PBwiki. Set up a wiki.

PBwiki2.0 for Education. This video demo for PBwiki2.0 for Education addresses some of the
questions I had about controlling access and editing.

Wikiversity--a community devoted to collaborative learning from pre-school to university

Second Life Education Wiki. This is a collection of information about Second Life for educators kindergarten through university level. I found it while looking at Wikiversity.

For Teachers New to Wikis
This site gives some basic informationa as well as some links for wiki beginners.

COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Act). This is the website for COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Act) on the wikkis in education website. It explains the act and how to comply.

Wikipatterns.com. This lists several “patterns and anti-patterns” that either help or hinder the use of wikis. It was far too technical for me, but those who are hosting wikis may find it useful. For instance, one of the anti-patterns was “thread mess.”

Wiki Ettiquette. This is a short article with good tips for beginning users.

Dallas

Edutech Wiki. Looks worth exploring.

Dave

Wikipedia. It is an online encyclopedia that allows the users to edit content. Even though many people criticize Wikipedia, I find it useful for student-based research. I do have students confirm there findings with other sources, just like they should for any other resources.

Blog "10 Best Practices For Using Wikis in Education." It provided some good tips for using Wikis for interactive classroom use. A couple of tips that stuck out were; 1) Post conventions and rules, 2) Create an atmosphere of trust, and 3) Include common goals.

The Connected Classroom. This site contained a good amount of information about using Wikis in educational settings. There was also a video similar to the "Shift Happens" videos, which reinforced the reasons for making the shift to a more technology driven educational experience.

Lindsey

Moodle's wiki.

Jason

Gary Miller's Wiki.

Jenn

WetPaint Wiki.

Marilyn

Wikispaces.

Naomi

Wetpaint Wikis. “Wetpaint Wikis in Education, a place where educators come together to share tips about using wikis to enhance the learning experience.” Wetpaint Wiki is free and best of all is ad free. They have several types of Wikis that one can create for: the classroom,
higher ed, globally, PTO, teacher and group. Signing up was easy, information requested was basic, and automatically it asked me if I wanted to invite any other individuals to join the Wiki. This can always be done later, and if you have addresses in your e-mail the ability to import them is there. Also when I went to create a classroom Wiki, they listed all other classroom Wikis that have given permission to be shared. It’s like the mother lode on ways to use Wikis in the classroom.

Wikis in education.

Second Life Education Wiki: Discusses how to get started with Second Life and may cover some of the questions educators may have about how to use Second Life in their classrooms. Just thought I’d add it today, possibly as a resource when we begin discussing Second Life in the near future.

Sarah

Pbwiki. Pbwiki is the only educational wiki that I have used, and I truthfully do not use it as much. I don’t use it much for a variety of reasons: lack of email address for younger students, parental concern for names or other information being posted on the World Wide Web, and also because I find blogging or other collaborative software or projects to be more effective.

Trevor


For Teachers New to Wikis.

Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning. About peer editing. Since my goals can be accomplished by both Wikis and Google Docs, one of my high school classes will be suing Google Docs (specifically it's peer-editing features) to write collaborative research reports. We will however include the Wiki-essence and Wiki-process in our instruction over how to use peer-editing Web 2.0 tools.

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