Wicked+Wiki+Workshop

Kia ora koutou welcome to our workshop...so you've got a wiki? Now what?

 Today we will look at how I have used my wiki and how others do too. I am still learning as I go and am learning with my students. I am here today to share my ideas...

I don't have all the answers but am happy to share and work along side to facilitate learning as I would in my class.

With our wikis being linked to our school website now I believe we need to be mindful of the fact that people around the world will access these sites to judge our school. Points to consider: * Does it clearly link to learning in my room? * Does it show my room, school and students in a positive light? Spelling, Text language, capital letters. * Is my wiki changing and evolving like the learning in our classes?

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 As far as I can tell there are 3 main purposes for using a wiki in education.

 1. To support learning.  2. To enhance learning. (Online moderation)  3. To share learning.

A point to note here that you need to be aware of is that you need to make sure your wiki is "protected" meaning that it can be viewed by anyone and edited only bu members of your wiki. This keeps the content of the wiki safe from outside input.

You can also lock a wiki page that you as the organiser want to preserve. This could be a page with links to learning activities that you only want students to follow rather than contribute to.

A wiki is about collaborating...

__**Supporting learning: **__

This wiki is another example of how a wiki is used to store bookmarked sites to support learning in classes.

Room 12's wiki page for numeracy is another example of how sites can be bookmarked and grouped to support learning in the class.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Enhancing Learning: **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> This wiki has a great way to enhance life in the classroom. It has proved quite successful as far as getting kids back to class quickly. Its all about using ICT creatively.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> In this link to Room 10s wiki you will see how they are using Wall Wisher to review learning from the term

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> In this wiki from Room 7 glogster has been used to enhance the learning experience on this wiki.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This wiki from Dunedin is a good example of how wikis can be used to store information to enhance the learning, it is accessible from anywhere at anytime allowing students and their families to refer back to it whenever they want/need.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Scroll down in this link to find a range of search engines for students to use. Boolify (the top link) is particularly good to teach students how to search correctly. Have a play...

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sharing Learning **:

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> This link to <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Room 7s wiki is an example of how a voki could be used to share learning goals (be patient they do take a while to load).

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> On this link to <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Room 10s wiki you will see one students page where they share their learning.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> On t<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">his page you will see videos made by students uploaded for their parents to see at home. Bringing the community into the classroom.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Here <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">this wiki has been used to share a trip as part of topic learning (even with photos).


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">How to... **
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Now we will have a look at how to 'put' things into/onto your wiki... // **

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 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> Adding new pages // **
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> Creating pages for students // **
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Using the discussion tab // **
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Creating multiple users (for your class) // **
 * You are able to remove members from your wiki who do not behave in appropriate ways in this online space. My wiki has a set of rules developed as part of a cyber-citizenship unit (by the class) that guides what we do and how we behave in this space. To remove a member go into manage wiki, members and select the member you need to remove and click the remove button. In my opinion this is a last resort and should come after talking and teaching students how to behave, making clear expectations and seeking to monitor then in this online space.


 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Creating links // **
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> When you want to create a link in/on your wiki you need to know where you want to link to...for example if you are creating a link to a learning game on your wiki to support students learning you will need the website URL or address. This is in the address bar simply highlight and copy it. then follow the video below... // **
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">* Links should link right to the activity you want students to complete to support their learning. // **
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">* Wikis will allow you to formatively guide your students to their task with a learning focus too. // **

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 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> The other type of link you might want is a link within your wiki. Again you need to know which part of your wiki you want to link to. The steps are similar to creating a link above instead select wiki link rather then external link. See below for a how to demonstration... // **

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 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> Uploading files // **
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Wikis are a great way to collaborate and share learning with a range of people. Whilst collaboration is one of the strengths of using a wiki it is also a weakness. Anyone could access documents put on this site unless you are really careful. I have always chosen to convert students published work to PDF format to reduce the chances of the files being tampered with. * Cutepdf is a free download and once downloaded becomes a print option as if a printer installed on your computer. // **

Here is a helpful link on embedding a video into your wiki or blog from Rachel Boyd. It is most helpful, maybe we could have a look through the process and upload a video to your wiki?
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Embedding video, voki // **

Use this link to find the embed code from YouTube and we'll embed it into your wiki (just because we can)

//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Things to enhance your wikis... //

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Glogster (You need to register with this site) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> This site allows you to create a 'glog' which is like a multimedia web page. How could this be used to enhance learning in our rooms?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Survey monkey. (You need to register with this site) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> This tool is a great way to survey your class, or get answers to questions. I have used this with a what did you do over the holidays in term 1. It could be used for curriculums too, maths to gather statistics, social sciences to gather community voice on an issue...How else could this be used?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Wallwisher <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Click on the wall below to share. Please include your name too...better than anonymous (and easier to spell I bet!!) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> media type="custom" key="6497341"

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Pirate pad is another great way to collaborate online in real time.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Voki is an online avatar that allows you to type or record text that your avatar will say. You can choose male or female voices from a range of countries. You do need to spell phonetically if you are typing sometimes. I have seen this used to show students abilities to speak other languages. As you have seen above students can use these to share their learning goals. There are many possibilities for this technology. * You do need to register for this site)

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Blabberize allows you to make a still image to talk. You can upload audio either from the computer microphone, a mobile phone or an audio file you already have on your computer. If you are really careful you can achieve some fantastic results. How could this be used to enhance learning?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You tube /Teacher tube : are a great way to hold video online to allow for embedding to your wiki. A note: you need to be careful that access to these videos are restricted as they online...

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Photo bucket : is a great site to hold and create albums with images. I have seen this used to display art and introduce a class full of kids. It could be used to show highlights of camps...productions or ?? What great ideas do you have? * You need to join this site.