Welcome to the Wild World of Wikis Ed Considine Boston Public Schools

1. Welcome to the Wild World of WikisEd Considine Boston Public Schools

2. Agenda • Overview of Digital Tools • 21st Century Skills and Standards. Wikis In Education • Explore and Create

3. ISTE Teacher Standards • The "NETS for Teachers ” includes five categories

4. (1) Facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity,

5. (2) Design and develop digital-age learning experiences and assessments,

6. (3) Model digital-age work and learning,

7. (4) Promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility

8. (5) Engage in professional growth and leadership.

9. TSAT Skills • Identify and evaluate developing technologies as they relate to one's subject area, grade level and student population. • Develop web pages for instruction and communication.ret I • Using the most appropriate communications technologies (e.g., multimedia presentations, Web pages, digital videotapes, desktop-published documents).

10. Course Product • Name: • Lesson/Unit Title: • Grade Level: • Part I. Curriculum Planning • Standards • BPS • Student Technology Competencies • ISTE • 21st Century Skills • List the standards that you will address with this unit. • Lesson Overview: Topic • Goals • Activities • Assessments • (Include information on your topic, goals, kinds of activities and assessments. Also state how this lesson fits into the scope and sequence of the BPS curricula. • Part II. Technology Integration • Technology Tools • List the technology(ies) that are used in this lesson. Describe how teachers and/ or students are using the technology. • Technology Enhancing Teaching & Learning • Describe how the technology(ies) listed above enhances this lesson plan. In other words, how does the tDoeechnology help students meet the standards/ goals; develop 21st century skills; make activities more engaging; and/ or support assessment? • Part III. Logistics • Safety/Appropriate Use • What strategies will you take to ensure student safety/appropriate use as you teach with technology? • Classroom Management • What classroom management strategies will contribute to the success of the lesson? • Scheduling • What scheduling considerations will need to be made? Have all necessary technology resources and spaces been adequately secured?

11. Web 2.0 • The Read Write Web • Tools that allow users to create content • Active participants

12. Constructing Knowledge • Responsibility for learning • Motivation for learning • Instructors as facilitators

13. Learning is an active, social process • Collaborating among learners • Engaging and challenging the learner • Assessing

14. Pause • What types of collaboration do you use in your classroom or do you see in your school? • What are the benefits? The challenges?

16. What is a wiki? • from the Hawaiian word for quickly • a Wiki is a type of website that allows the visitors to add, remove, and sometimes edit the available content. ... • A collection of web pages that can be edited by a group.

17. …is a website that allows multiple users to create, modify and organize web page content in a collaborative manner. • …is a collaborative website where the users are responsible for creating and maintaining the content.

18. Wikis Vs Blogs A blog, or web log, shares writing and multimedia content in the form of “posts” (starting point entries) and “comments” (responses to the posts). • A wiki has a far more open structure and allows others to change what one person has written. This openness may trump individual opinion with group consensus.

19. Why use wikis in education? • Wikis encourage collaborative learning and information sharing • They increase student engagement and participation • Wikis facilitate communication between teachers and parents and guardians

20. Teachers are talking

21. How can wikis be used in the classroom? • Group Projects • Assignments • Resource Collections • Peer Review • Group FAQ • Parent involvement • Online Newspaper

22. Group Projects • Alignment: Avoid confusing email chains by collaboratively building and editing project information in a centralized location. • Tracking: Collect all assignment details in one place. • Scheduling: Plan out and manage a shared project calendar.

23. Brainstorming: • Drafting • Researching: • Connecting

24. Teacher Collaboration • * • Curriculum Sharing: Post and comment on lesson plans and syllabi. • * • Online Resource Collection: Share your favorite online learning tools, blogs, websites, etc.

25. Assignment Sharing: Post successful homework, course materials, study guides, and more. • Group FAQ: Post and respond to questions on a given topic.

26. Producing rather than consuming • Active not passive learning

27. Here’s what some teachers say: • “Never in 25 years of teaching have I seen a more powerful motivator for writing than blogs and wikis.” … “And that’s because of the audience. Writing is not just taped on the refrigerator and then put in the recycle bin. It’s out there for the world to see. Kids realize other people are reading what they write” – Mark Ahlness • “Even when they’re out sick, students work on their blogs.” – Carol Barsotti • “I’ve got 6th graders coming in during their lunch and after school to add articles to their blog and to respond to their classmates’ articles.” – Al Gonzalez • “The response has been tremendous. Students seem so much more willing to blog in their own space and time. They seem less inhibited and more enthusiastic.” – Beth Lynne Ritter-Guth

28. Wikis in Action • Wikipedia • Video • Classroom Wiki • Bud the Teacher • Grammar School Wiki

29. Resources

30. Online Quizzes • Teachertube • Schooltube • Images podcast

31. Contact: • 21st Century Wiki • Ed Considine econsidine@boston.k12.ma.us