Wiki

=WIKIS =

What is a wiki?
A wiki is a webpage with an edit button, which can be updated by multiple users. Watch this short video on [|'Wikis in Plain English'].

How can I use a wiki in my classroom?

 * Students work collaboratively on group projects online
 * Students are motivated to write for a real audience
 * Conference with students on their drafts - all revisions to a page are tracked in the history
 * Discussion forums - initiate online discussions in online forums with your students
 * Use it as a website for your class / year level / school that you can easily update yourself
 * Make your wiki public (anyone can access) or private (only members can access with a username and password)
 * Post topic-specific weblinks for your students to access, to save them time in typing out URLs or Google searching
 * Put handouts and newsletters online for students / parents to access from school or from home
 * Showcase student work online in the form of digital images (can be photos of student work), Word documents, Powerpoint presentations, digital movies or digital audio recordings - a great motivator
 * Invite another class to join your wiki and work collaboratively with you - at your school, a nearby school or a sister school overseas!

Where can I see some examples?
A wiki space devoted to tips and tricks
 * Room 20's wiki
 * Year 5 @ WPS wiki
 * Year 5/6 wiki at Sunbury Heights Primary
 * Year 12 Australian History Wiki
 * VSL Japanese class wiki
 * An exciting wiki from Gemma Somerville (Craigieburn South Primary School) demonstrating how she took her class online
 * [|Phun - Physics Sandbox]
 * A great example of how a student used a wiki for their ePortfolio
 * [|This is what they used in their portfolio - Glogster]

How can I get started?

 * [[image:http://c1.wikicdn.com/i/wikispaces.png caption="external image wikispaces.png"]] || * Sign up for your own wiki (free for educators)
 * Written instructions
 * [|Tutorial Movies]
 * [|Discussion Forum]
 * E-mail Support ||
 * Find out more about what Wikispaces offers for teachers. Wikispaces for teachers ||  ||
 * [|Best Embeds for Educational Wikis and Blogs] **

Getting Tricky with Wikis site is great. http://gettingtrickywithwikis.wikispaces.com/, also  [] Click add background image to page on this site and it outlines it. On the individual page in Other HTML put the Java script that changes the background for that page only.

http://sealwyf.wikispaces.com/Sandbox015 has lots of special wiki hints including how to change the colour of the side parts of individual page

media type="file" key="Jimmy Wales - restaurant analogy-short.mp3"
 * Worried about not being able to moderate wiki edits before they are published?** Listen to what Jimmy Wales (founder of Wikipedia) has to say about trusting people to contribute responsibly.

View a screencast developed by Peter deWaat from Sunbury Heights Primary about how he used Wikis to create secure email accounts for his class without going through the tech.

media type="custom" key="2806497"