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12 Top Wiki Activities for the Classroom
Historical Figures Instead of just another boring academic paper on an historical figure, make research and documentation fun by creating wiki fan pages. Students can add and edit text, post photos and famous quotes, as well as links to the references they used.
Student as Editor Turn grammar into a challenging and competitive game. Have students use wiki to edit text with grammatical errors. Teachers can put students into groups and those with the most edits wins. Individual edits can also be counted.
Join the Debate Team Using a written set of guidelines, teachers post topics that students can argue by using wiki online forums. Teachers will monitor the discussions/debates while students learn online debate etiquette.
Create a Collaborative Story Start with one sentence pulled from a hat, “The girl looked beyond the dusty field and saw a team of horses approaching, their riders hands tied behind their backs.” From here, students add and edit text to create a story. Set a minimum amount of words each student must submit. Chances are, you’ll actually have to set a maximum amount of words.
Poetry Class For English class, the teacher can post a poem online and have the students discuss its meaning. Students can also post their own poems for peer review.
Book and Film Reviews Students can use wiki to write assigned book and film reviews. Other students can add to as well as comment and discuss the reviews on a monitored forum.
Head on over to E-Learning Industry to read about 6 more wiki activities!
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The Top 3 Wiki Sites For Teachers
Wikispaces.com Designed specifically for use in the classroom, wikispaces is a social writing platform that also acts as a classroom management tool by keeping teacher and students organized and on task. Not only does this site provide easy to use templates, it’s free and also has a variety of assessment tools. Teachers can also use wikispaces to create assignments and share resources.
Wikidot.com At its most basic level, this website is free to users. Some of its features include easy to use website templates with unlimited pages, free web hosting and domain name, control over ads, and the chance to earn some money with ads, which can be used for the next class trip.
Pbworks.com With over 300,000 education based workspaces, this wiki-like website offers educators a range of options that encourage student-centered learning. Students can build web sites or web pages that can be shared with other students and staff.
- Taken from the E-Learning Industry
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Check out this short video by YouTube user Vanessa Van Edwards for a short overview of what a wiki is and how it can be a beneficial educational tool for teachers.
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Wiki Walk
Take a wiki walk through some of these wikis:
The Aristotle Experiment (High School English)
Genius Hour wiki is the first ever webpage dedicated to Genius Hour and is a space that is contributed to by many Genius Hour teachers.
A continuing tennis ball story (elementary)
Resources for History Teachers a multimedia/multicultural wiki for teachers and studentscreated by teachers and students
First grade wiki (learning to write)
A science wiki page from High School Online
- Adapted from Teachers First
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Wiki Ideas for the Classroom
Below you’ll find wiki ideas appropriate for most subjects and grade levels. Visit Teachers First to see the full list and to see subject-specific and grade-specific ideas!
Study guides made by student groups for themselves and peers: each group prepares the guide for one aspect of the unit or responsibility rotates: one unit guide per semester.
Vocabulary lists and examples of the words in use, contributed by students (ongoing throughout the year).
Products of research projects, especially collaborative group projects: civil war battles, artistic movements, the American electoral process, diseases and prevention, etc. Remember that the products do not have to be simply writing. They can include computer files, images, videos, etc. Creating an organizational structure for the content is an important part if the project.
What I Think Will Be on the Test wiki: a place to log review information for important concepts throughout the year, prior to taking the “high stakes” test, AP test, or final exam. Students add to it throughout the year and even from year to year.
An “everything I needed to know I learned in Ms.Teachername’s class” wiki where students add their own observations of ways the class knowledge has spilled over into the “real world.” For example, a student might write about actually using a simple algebraic equation to figure out dimensions for cutting lumber or foamcore for a display or write about ways that her friend shows tragic hubris and is heading toward a fall.
A travelogue from a field trip or NON-field trip that the class would have liked to take as a culmination of a unit of study: Our (non) trip to the Capital and what we (wish) we saw.
Articles by students who miss school for family trips, written about their travels on the class wiki, relating what they see to concepts learned before they left: mammals I saw on the way to Disney, geometric shapes in the Magic Kingdom, the most cost-effective lunches while traveling, etc. Remember: hotels usually have Internet access. Make the world a part of your classroom!
An FAQ (or NSFAQ- Not So Frequently Asked Questions) wiki on your current unit topic. Have students post KWL entries and continue adding questions that occur to them as the unit progresses. As other students add their “answers,” the wiki will evolve into a student-created guide to the topic. Example: WWII FAQ or Biomes FAQ. You may find that the FAQ process can entirely supplant traditional classroom activities, especially if you seed a few questions as the teacher. This would also depend on whether you have consistent computer access on a daily basis, a luxury many schools do not have.
- Adapted from Teachers First
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The History of Wikipedia (in two minutes): This is a short video about how the online information repository Wikipedia came into being.
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University Wiki
University Wiki discusses the possibilities and necessary differences when applying Wiki technology in a University as a tool for students communication.
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Slideshow of How Use a Wiki in the Classroom
How to Use a Wiki in the Classroom slideshow. This slideshow contains many great ideas for how you can utilize wikis in your classroom
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University of Wisconsin Wiki Rubric
This is a PDF of a rubric used by the University of Wisconsin to assess the use of wikis for learning.
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This is a great website filled with various resources for wikis for learning
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There are many tools out there that can help create collaborative learning in classes. One of the most popular tools is the wiki. Carleton University professor Babak Esfandiari and his team from the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering have been developing a ‘Social Wiki’ tool that takes the collaborative aspects of wikis and introduces social components to posts.
On Aug. 6, 2015, he held a special session that highlights how the tool works.
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Wikis and Wikipedia as a Teaching Tool - Journal Article
Wikis and Wikipedia as a Teaching Tool is a journal article by Piotr Konieczny published in the International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning.
Abstract: Wikis are a very versatile and easy-to-use tool that is finding increasing applications in teaching and learning. This paper will illustrate how teaching academics can join the wiki revolution. First. it will introduce the common wikis and then focus on Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, which has become one of the most popular Internet sites and offers unique opportunities for teachers and learners. It will describe how wikis and Wikipedia are used as a teaching tool and how to develop them further.
Wikipedia can be used for various assignments: for example, students can be asked to reference an unreferenced article or create a completely new one. In doing so, students will see that writing an article is not a 'tedious assignment' but an activity that millions do 'for fun'. By submitting their work to Wikipedia students will see their work benefiting – and being improved upon – by the entire world.
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Wiki as a Teaching Tool - Journal Article
Wiki as a Teaching Tool is a journal article by Kevin R. Parker and Joseph T. Chao published in the Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge and Learning Objects.
Abstract: Wikis are one of many Web 2.0 components that can be used to enhance the learning process. A wiki is a web communication and collaboration tool that can be used to engage students in learning with others within a collaborative environment. This paper explains wiki usage, investigates its contribution to various learning paradigms, examines the current literature on wiki use in education, and suggests additional uses in teaching software engineering.
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