Wikis
- What is a wiki?
- A website...
- ...that you can WRITE as well as READ.
- How does it work?
- Let's use something familiar as an example: Wikipedia
- Entries on Toussaint L'Overture in different languages
- ...how were these entries built? Who wrote them? What's on the tabs?
- A wiki in action: Editing the Toussaint entry.
- Why would you want to use this? Let's see some examples.
- A teacher-created site to share information and resources with a class.
- A teacher-organized, student-created site to share and edit research.
- A teacher-organized, student-created site to develop branching narratives.
- A set of writing portfolios.
- And now let's use one: going to the lab, logging in, editing your page.
- When would you want to use this?
- Teacher-centered use
- ... to share info, links, and materials quickly & flexibly
- Can be purely administrative (what's due when) or instructional (linking to resources to be used in lessons)
- Student-centered uses
- ... if students need to write
- ...and sharing and/or collaboration are important.
- Students can also use wikis to organize information
Questions / comments / complaints
- Reminder: You have to be logged in to edit.
- Ana: Page wouldn't enter "Edit" mode
- Amanda: Couldn't log in, even using generic account (unionschool90)
- ...spam?
- Missing invitation email? Might have gone into spam folder
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