Wiki

Wiki’s

Although the word WIKI sounds like a move you should be doing on a dance floor, the Hawaiian word for “fast” does have to do with a Web 2.0 tool. According to the most famous Wiki, Wikipedia, a wiki “is a [|website] that allows the easy[|[1]] creation and editing of any number of [|interlinked] [|web pages] via a [|web browser]”. A Wiki can be simple, one page by one author or very complex, such as the online collaborative encyclopedia site [|Wikipedia], which is constantly updated by thousands of users every day. Watch this common Craft video about the use of Wiki’s!!!

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**A Few Key Wiki Features (taken from the website K12 learning) ** So what can we do with a Wiki in education?? LOTS. Check out this video about using Wiki’s in education:
 * ** Every version of every page is saved ** in the page History (anytime a user clicks ** Save ** ), so it's easy to track changes and compare page versions. You can easily revert to an "old" page version if information is accidentally lost or changed in an unwanted way.
 *  The History stores user information along with page revisions, which allows you to easily track and evaluate user (read: // student // ) contributions.
 *  A wiki's "permissions" may be set to ** Public **, ** Protected ** or ** Private. **** Public ** - Anyone can view and edit the pages; ** Protected ** - Anyone can view the pages, but only approved members may ** edit ** pages; ** Private ** - Only approved members (who are logged in) can view or edit the pages.
 *  A wiki site includes the ability to // track page changes // via email or an RSS feed. That's how Wikipedia vandalism/errors are corrected so quickly!
 * Most wikis include a Discussion feature for each page, allowing users to leave comments or discuss page contents.
 * Wikis use a very simple coding language called "Wikitext" or "Wiki Markup" to format the text, links and other content on the pages. Most users don't need to know about that, because they can use the Visual Editor (looks a bit like the formatting toolbar in Word) to format their pages.

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Now check out at least two or three of the educational Wiki’s listed below. Go West: http://gowest.wikispaces.com/ a third grade class explores westward expansion Kindergarten Counting Book: [] a kindergarten class counts to 100 Kubler Reading: http://kublerreading.wikispaces.com/ A fourth grade class reflects on reading Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbit <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: normal;">Schools in the past http://schoolsthen.wikispaces.com/ First grade students interview parents, grandparents and friends on what school was like when they were young. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: normal;">2nd Grade Class Wiki: http://mrsibrahim.wikispaces.com/ A 2nd grade classroom wiki <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: normal;">Art4Cast: http://art4cast.wikispaces.com/ a Wiki by an art teacher in Utah <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: normal;">Middle School Summer Reading Wiki: http://bhms-summer-read.wikispaces.com/ <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: normal;">Two schools collaborating Summer reading Wiki: []

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: normal;">** Assignment #3A ** : <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: normal;">Read this post from teacher Vicki Davis about her first experience with using Wiki’s in the classroom. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: normal;">[] <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: normal;">Write a blog post about the educational Wiki’s that you checked out. What did you like? What did you think was missing? Do you think you could use a Wiki in your classroom?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: normal;">** Assignment #3B ** <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: normal;">Play in the Wiki sandbox! The best way to learn is to DO. I have set up a wiki sandbox for all of us to “play” in. Follow this link to the sandbox and the rest of assignment 3.