Teaching in Wikiland

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Teaching in Wikiland

• An Introduction to Using Wikis in the Classroom
• By Aubri Keleman

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Teaching in Wikiland

• Objectives
• Introduce wikis and present
• Wikis as information sources
• Wikis as professional tools for teachers
• Ideas for using wikis with students

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What is a Wiki?

• A piece of software
• Like a word document online
• A page anyone can edit

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Yes but can I learn to use it?

• You can learn to use a wiki in 30-60 min.
• There are several free sources for wikis.

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Whats important about a wiki?

• Collaboration
• Hyperlinks

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Seedwiki
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Seedwiki
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Seedwiki
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Wikis as Information Sources

• What do you know about Wikipedia?

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Wikipedia

• Wikipedia is
• A free encyclopedia
• Multilingual
• Web-based
• Written collaboratively by volunteers
• Most articles can be changed by anyone
• Wikipedia has more than 3,210,000 articles

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Wikis as Information Sources

• Wikipedia or Whackypedia

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Wikis as Information Sources

• Nature magazine carried out an expert-led
• investigation of Wikipedia comparing it to
• Britannica.
• The exercise revealed numerous errors in
• both encyclopedias, but among 42 entries
• tested, the difference in accuracy was not
• particularly great the average science entry
• in Wikipedia contained around four
• inaccuracies Britannica, about three.
• (Giles, 2005, 1)

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Wikis as Information Sources

• University of Buffalo professor Alex Havelis
• created 13 errors on various posts of
• Wikipedia. All were fixed within a couple of
• hours.
• During the tsunami, Wikipedia was called
• the most comprehensive source
• on the web.
• (Richardson, 2005,2)

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Wikipedia
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Wikipedia
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Wikijunior
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Wikijunior
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Wikis as Professional Tools for Teachers

• Wikis support collaborative projects by
• Teachers
• School board members
• Schools
• .

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Wikis in Elementary and Middle Schools

• Wikis in upper elementary school have been
• used for collaborative writing
• Class newspaper
• Story telling
• Poetry
• Correcting teacher samples of writing
• Classroom wikipedia
• Other ideas for wikis
• Brainstorming
• Group work

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Buckman Arts Magnet Elementary School
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Sample for First Grade

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How might students use wikis?

• As information sources
• As collaborative tools for group work
• As an authentic reason to write and read
• As a way to publish and share work

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Information Literacy Lessons Related to Wikis

• Kindergarten
• How to type
• How to use a mouse
• How to paste a picture in a wiki ABC book
• Grade three
• How to edit a wiki
• How to add to the class wikipedia

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Information Literacy Lessons Related to Wikis

• Grade 7
• Using wikis on a collaborative project
• (A single lesson could be on respect in wikiland)
• Evaluating wikipedia as a resource
• Adding to wikijunior or wikipedia

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On Your Handout

• Free Wikis
• Informational Wikis
• What can wikis do?
• Teaching wiki ethics
• Sandbox wiki
• References