Why+Wiki?

=Why Wiki?=

“When students write a paper, they're usually only writing for their teacher. When they know their peers will read what they write, students care and they try harder.”
Executive Director, CUE
 * Mike Lawrence**

== Let multiple people collaborate on the same page. No need to send documents around and wait for comments -- your pages and documents can be centralized on the wiki for as many editors as you grant access to.

Share documents, videos, spreadsheets, Powerpoints, or any kind of document imaginable -- right on your wiki. Your wiki allows you to take the knowledge from others' inbox and put it on your wiki.

wiki notifies you of every edit so you can monitor changes and engage when you need to. Notifications by RSS and email allow you to keep up to date, automatically.

Uses of Wikis in Education
Without knowing any HTML, wikis allow students and teachers to create web pages. These pages can be edited anywhere and, if you choose, by anyone. A wiki allows for world wide collaboration.

You can use wikis for:
 * Class Notes
 * Parental / Student Communication
 * Lesson Summaries
 * Handouts
 * Course Syllabus
 * Course Links and Resource Notes
 * School or class calendar
 * Collaboration of Notes
 * Concept Introduction and Exploratory Projects
 * Dissemination of Important Classroom Learning Beyond the Classroom
 * Teacher Information Page
 * Student written books
 * School Newspaper
 * Showcase for student projects
 * Platform for peer review of student work

What Wikis Do for Students
Wikis allow your students to collaborate. Group work can be compiled on the same wiki page. Students can even work together to write the textbook. Students like using wikis because they can work on them 24/7 without the hassle of finding a common meeting time and place.

What Wikis Do for Teachers and Administrators

 * Build learning communities
 * Extend professional development workshops
 * Provide a storage space for curriculum resources, lesson plans, course materials, tech support tips, and more
 * Build home-school communications
 * Publish web pages (quickly and easily)

Curriculum Wikis
These are wikis that include curriculum resources that are freely shareable:
 * [|Curriki]
 * [|OER Commons]
 * [|Schools Without Limit]s
 * [|Wikibooks]
 * [|Wikijunior books]

**Project WIKIS**

 * Click on e-DigiSkills - it´s about collaborating in [|European eTwinning]

Lesson Plans & Ideas
Click [|here] to add or link to lesson plans or ideas for the use of this technology in the classroom.

Active Discussion Page
Please click [|here] for a discussion page on this technology.

Specific Program Links

 * [|Wikimatrix] Wiki engines compared
 * [|Wiki farms List] @ wikipedia – “A ‘wiki farm’ is a server or a collection of servers that provides wiki hosting, or a group of wikis hosted on such servers. The following tables compare general information for a number of wiki farms."
 * [|PMwiki] Simple to install wiki software, requires PHP 4.1 or later
 * [|PBwiki] Hosted wiki ad-free for educators.
 * [|Wikispaces] Hosted wikis ad-free for educators (this site is a Wikispaces wiki)
 * [|DokuWiki] DokuWiki is simple to install and use. It works on plain texts files and thus needs no database.
 * [|Zoho Wiki]
 * [|Wetpaint] Really useful for class work with students. Apply for free ads.
 * [|Jotspot] - newly acquired by Google which is causing delays for new user registration
 * [|wikieducator] The WikiEducator is an evolving community intended for the collaborative: (a) planning of education projects linked with the development of free content; (b) development of free content on Wikieducator for e-learning; (c) work on building open education resources (OERs) on how to create OERs.

Blog Resources

 * [|Using Wiki in Education] A blog and [|book] by Stewart Mader.
 * [|Darren Kuropatwa's Daily Scribe Post Concept]

Classroom Wikis to Check Out

 * Portable C Wiki See a classroom wikispace in Elementary School grades 3 -5.
 * Jerusalem Wikispace An international collaborative project between Israeli and Canadian classes.
 * [|Design Patterns for Eduwikis]
 * [|Wikipatterns] - examples of and discussion about tactics for encouraging involvement in your wiki (and those tactics which might have the opposite effect)
 * [|The Edu Advisory Board for PBwiki] Place to collaborate on making PBwiki easier and more useful for educators
 * Design Space A wiki on visual literacy
 * What is Democracy A wiki to go with a [|WebQuest] http://questgarden.com/author/preview.php?u=2460&l=02460-050922124447&pt=student&p=introduction
 * [|Welker's WIkinomics] - the 2007 EduBlog "Best Educational Wiki" Award winning Economics student wiki.
 * http://goodwinclass.wikispaces.com/ - Check out our classroom wiki.

Podcasts Resources

 * [|Steve Hargadon's] [|EdTechLive] interview on 8/24/06 with [|Victoria Davis] and Adam Frey: "Wikis--What Are They, and Why Use Them in Education?" [|MP3][|OGG]

Other Web Links

 * [|Learning the Wiki Way] - a wiki presentation about how to use wikis in your class, by Jason Welker
 * [|Wikis in the Classroom] ppt by Vicki A Davis 2007
 * e-digiskills "European eTwinning project", coordinated by Hans Feldmeier
 * [|Vicky Davis] "Wiki Wiki Teaching- The art of using wiki pages to teach"
 * [|S. Pixy Ferris and Hilary Wilder] "Uses and Potentials of Wikis in the Classroom"
 * [|A Wiki Walk-Through], from TeachersFirst. A great tutorial about what a wiki is, why to use wikis in education, and how to use wikis in education.
 * [|Welcome to the World of Wikis] - Help pages put together to use with primary schools in the UK
 * [|Using Wiki in Education] - An article at the Science of Spectroscopy
 * [|Classroom Use of Wikis] at Teaching Hacks
 * Articles and Resources in Spanish
 * [|Wiki While you Work] - A video tutorial lecture by Mark Wagner
 * Waarvoor gebruik je een wiki (how to use wikis in Dutch) - A short list of ideas to use wikis in education.
 * [|Wikipatterns] This site contains a directory of patterns and anti-patterns, and a guide to major stages of wiki adoption.
 * [|Wiki Wiki, Blog Blog] An essay on wikis and Blogs, by Anne Marie Scott.
 * [|Wiki That! Education]Blog discussing the uses of wikis in Education.
 * [|Wikiweb: The use of wikis for collaborative learning], online essay.
 * Web-based Communication Graduate class wiki containing many examples of classroom wikis & blogs.

Article Links
> A VLE course introducing web 2.0 for education. Covering blogs, wikis, photo and video sharing and social networks.
 * //EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (2005) 7 Things You Should Know about Wikis, July 2005 http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7004.pdf
 * EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (2005) 7 Things You Should Know About Collaborative Editing, December 2005 http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7009.pdf
 * Diane Oblinger (2006) Uses of Wikis, EDUCAUSE Pocket Edition #6 (podcast) http://connect.educause.edu/blog/dianao/educause_pocket_edition_6_uses_of_wikis/2445
 * Brian Benzinger (2006) Stu.dicio.us – Social Note Taking for Students, Solution Watch http://www.solutionwatch.com/476/studicious-social-notetaking-for-students
 * [|JISC RSC NW - Web 2.0 Moodle course]
 * [|Making Wikis Work for Scholars] April 2008 - a discussion on the use and abuse of wikipedia in academia.

Books

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Videos
> Wiki web sites are easy to use, but hard to describe. The video use the analogy of planning a camping trip to show how easy fully collborative Web publishing really is. And, moreover, shows that it's publishing with a purpose.
 * [|PBwiki Educator Videos]
 * [|YOU TUBE: Wikis in Plain English]
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Email Lists

 * [|Wikis in Education Mailing List], a place to exchange ideas and get help if you have any questions.
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Other Community Sites

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Additional Resources

 * Wikis - A beginner's tutorial for educators

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Control the access level of your users. wiki includes robust access levels (Reader, Writer, Editor, and Administrator) for differentiating access to your wiki.. =__Easy to Use__= Why wait for IT or your web designer to set up a collaborative site for you? Create a wiki in less than a minute -- no technical skills required. It's as easy to make as a peanut butter sandwich.

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