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Join Barry Bakin, an experienced ESL teacher from the Los Angeles Unified School District, in this interactive one-hour workshop designed for educators eager to integrate wikis into their teaching practices. Participants will receive a wiki account and learn essential wiki tools, including creating, editing, and reverting changes. This session highlights how wikis facilitate collaborative learning while allowing students to publish and modify content. Dive into the features of wikis and see examples of their effective use in a classroom setting.
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1. Wikis in the Classroom Barry Bakin
ESL Teacher Advisor and
ESL Intermediate Low Instructor
Division of Adult and Career Education
Los Angeles Unified School District
barry.bakin@lausd.net
http://www.tech4esl.blogspot.com
http://barrytrainsu.pbwiki.com
2. Goals for today’s 1 hour workshop All participants will sign up and get a wiki
All participants will become familiar with basic wiki tools and tasks such as creating, editing and “reverting to a prior version”.
Remember: You can hear Barry but he can not hear you! You have to type any questions you have for him in the chat area!
3. What’s a Wiki anyway? A simple way for an individual to “publish” information on the Internet
A simple way for a selected group of viewers/users of the wiki to change the information that is presented.
A way to preserve the changes
A way to keep a history of the changes
4. Some Wiki characteristics You can organize the order and relationship of pages
There are ways to determine who can make changes
You can keep them simple or add other features
Easy enough that students can learn to make changes in one lesson.
You can add images and/or video clips
You can “undo” changes easily
5. Some Wikis in action!