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Wiki is Hawaiian for fast. Wikis are a collaboratively edited webpage that make webpage creation very fast. You don’t have to know any HTML, you don’t have to sync any files to the web, and you can edit your webpage anywhere.
Evolution of a Wiki Page (video)
Wikiproviders:
Here are a few great examples
Mr. Ozeni’s Rubber band project – PB wiki
AP World History Wiki – Wikispaces
Here’s my vodcast about my Wetpaint wiki for my ESETT Professional Development.
Link to the wiki site: http://esettsummer2008.wetpaint.com/
Several things will let us know that the wiki is successful:
1. If teachers not only create their teacher page, but nominate teachers for various awards that we will be given for achievement from the last year. That will show that not only were teachers willing to share what they have done, but also that other teachers viewed the hard work that they put into creating the page in order to nominate them.
2. If teachers are contributing to the post-breakout session brainstorming. After each breakout session, teachers will work together to brainstorm how the content of the session could be useful in finding a use of technology that will help students interact with content at a higher level. They will do this either through contributing to forum discussions that are set up on that page of the wiki, or they will be working together to add content to a wiki page where they will share ideas.
3. If teachers are making use of the general space for posting questions, sharing ideas, etc. Often individual teachers will show us something cool that they are doing or thinking of doing, and we are the only audience for that idea. Now when they share an idea with us, we can encourage them to contribute to the wiki page to share their idea with others.
I will definitely be using a wiki provider. I had planned to use pbwiki because of the comments option that would allow teachers to contribute to a wiki page simultaneously, but after checking out Wetpaint, I switched to that option. In Wetpaint, you can do more than simply leave a comment on a page. You can also create a discussion related to the content of the page. I also was attracted by the very useful templates for creating a site and the more familiar structure of the page and associated tools. The wiki is going to be especially useful for laying out the plan for our professional development and being a place of sharing becuase it is flexible and can easily be changed on the fly. An important facet of our grant and training is that we don’t want to dictate the direction of training. Instead we want teachers to let us know what would be most useful to them and provide professional development in that area. So the wiki will be a great way to have a flexible environment for the schedule, resources, discussion, and sharing.
I will need to create the skeleton structure for the wiki. That means laying out the schedule, setting up the pages that will be used, etc. Then the presenters for each break out session will fine tune the pages for each session and teachers will fill out their pages. Several plugins will be very important. The first is the plugin that allows for the Google Presentation that will be used on the first day to be embedded within the page of the wiki related to the opening remarks. Another plugin that I will use is a polling plugin that will allow the presenters to get data on what teachers would like to see in break out sessions.
Yes and no. I like the overall look. I think it will be easy to navigate and easy to use for teachers. I also think that seeing a wiki used in professional development may spark ideas for teachers on how they could be used in the classroom (especially since they will be getting hands-on experience with it – not just viewing it). Where I am disappointed is in the deficiencies of Wetpaint. I would have liked to be able to edit in HTML mode to fine tune some things, but that feature isn’t available. Also, I couldn’t figure out how to customize the navigation across the top or on the sidebar. It looks like you have to take those as is. That was disappointing. I hope that may become an improvement in the future with Wetpaint.
Here’s a podcast about old songs that my grandma used to sing to me that she is now singing to my son.
They should be able to create a personal page that displays some of the best of what they have done in the last year in regard to integrating technology into their science curriculum.
They should be able to either comment on wiki pages or collaborate to create their own for each break out session (this may vary by the type of break out session and how much time is available to wrap up).
They should be able to contribute all together to a page that provides a list (by grade level) of great examples of how technology can be used to raise the bar on how students are thinking in science classrooms.
This would be used for one week of professional development. If it is successful, it will likely be adopted for PD both small and large. It will depend on the feedback that we get from the teachers on how helpful the wiki was.
Right now I am working in the Educational Technology Department in San Diego Unified. I think I have the best job in the world because I work with science teachers to help them to integrate technology into their teaching through a grant called ESETT (Enhancing Science Through Technology). I also get to help provide Moodle support for the district and a few other odds and ends. Each time I’m in the classroom of another teacher supporting them in some way, I long for my own classroom again, so someday soon perhaps I’ll be back.
My experience with blogs, wikis, and podcasts is limited, but I’ve got some experience with each. I’ve had several blogs but none that I’ve kept up with. I think if I had a classroom blog I would see a real value to keeping one up, but with my other blogs I don’t think I’ve had enough to say to keep posting (time is another factor). I’ve got lots of experience with Moodle wikis but those are very limited compared to other providers like wikispaces and pbwiki. I’ve definitely played with those and gotten to support teachers who’ve used them in their classrooms. I made a Moodle Minute podcast last year, but unfortunately I only made about 5 episodes and then got too busy to keep it up. Here’s a link to the Moodle tutorials page where you can subscribe to it http://moodle.sandi.net/course/view.php?id=1192 – you have to scroll down until you see the cow picture. In order to learn about things and also to have fun I’ve subscribed to lots of podcasts. I love Ask a Ninja. I also subscribed to Coffee Talk Spanish to try to learn Spanish on my commute, but I alwyays felt silly talking to myself in Spanish while I drove.
For my final project what I would like to do is set up a blog with a video podcast to complement the website that I started in 541. I made a website about World War II that I never had a chance to finish because it involved interviewing some of my family about their experiences in World War II on video and then posting the video. I had been trying to do it through flash but it was very time consuming. I think it would be awesome to post the videos to a blog so that people can leave comments. I think it might also be cool to have a companion wiki sight so that if other people have war experiences they have to share, they could create a page in a wiki. Here’s the link to the website I made: http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~beezley/worldwar2/intro.htm and you can see that the video is conspicuously absent and the sight is incomplete.
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