Google Custom Search - Blogs and Wikis as Assessment Tools - 4 views
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Blogs and wikis are gaining popularity in higher education and in research. As effective tools for assessment, blogs and wikis provide unique platforms for peer to peer and instructor to peer engagement and can be used in authentic formative and summative assessment. In a similar vein, research communities are using the shared, synchronous and asynchronous platforms to collaborate on projects and transmit data. This search engine represents examples of both applications, with portals to further research.
5 Strategies for Using Wikis in the Classroom - 4 views
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Collaborative Projects using Wikis. This technology tool is ideal for project-based learning, cross curricular projects in middle school teams, and thematic units. One advantage of Wikis in collaborative projects is that they are online.
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Educators are constantly seeking new strategies for using Wikis in the classroom. This is especially true for teachers who have formulated some ideas; however, they are still looking for additional ideas. Even teachers who have been using this technology for quite some time are on the lookout for new ideas. Regardless of being new to Wiki or a veteran, new strategies and techniques for engaging students are just around the corner.
Top 10 Web 2.0 Tools for Young Learners -- THE Journal - 0 views
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it's about putting the power to learn and create in the hands of the students.
Welcome to Welker's Wikinomics Page - Welker's Wikinomics Page - 3 views
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Rules of Conduct at Welker's Wikinomics:
Using PBworks in Education - 2 views
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You can even collaborate with fellow educators on courses and curriculum, and manage the work of running your school or district.
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You control who can view and edit your workspace
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PBworks lets you create a secure online workspace in about 60 seconds. Encourage classroom participation with interactive wiki pages that students can view and edit from any computer.
Share class resources and completed student work with parents
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One of my colleagues introduced me to this site today.
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I had an introduction to PBWorks via the Assessment class and I can see a number of different applications for it in our blended, college-level classes.
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If you take the time to master the PB wiki environment, it can be a fine platform for creating your e-Portfolio. Wikis do have a learning curve, but what technology doesn't. PBworks (once called Peanut Butter Wiki) is well established and has a rick toolset.
Technology Integration - 0 views
TeachersFirst: Wiki Walk-Through - 3 views
Discussion Forum - Classroom 2.0 - 2 views
Using Wikis with Student Research Projects and Portfolios | ELTWorldOnline.com - 3 views
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I will use this site for my final project. I am really interested in using wikis in my academic ESL classroom. We have been working on a wiki where the students record their "literature circle" responsibilities for the book "the Tipping Point".
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I will use this site for my final project. I am really interested in using wikis in my academic ESL classes. We have been working on a wiki where the students record their "literature circle" responsibilities for the book "The Tipping Point".
PB Works - 1 views
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This is a wiki site - the PB stands for 'peanut butter' - they say setting up a wiki is as easy as making a peanut butter sandwich, and it is. Easy to set up, easy to maintain.
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PB Works offers online collaboration for business, education, and personal use. This wiki allows the administrator to control the degree of reading and writing so it can be used to disseminate information and share files to augment a face to face class.
YouTube - Wikis in Plain English - 1 views
MiddleSchoolPortal/Webinar Archive - NSDLWiki - 0 views
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Learn how to use Diigo to keep track of, share, publish, and annotate resources. Diigo is a personal research tool, collaborative research platform, and social information network.
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educational-origami - home - 0 views
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Educational Origami is a blog , and a wiki, about the integration of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) into the classroom, this is one of the largest challenges that I feel we as teachers face. It's about 21st Century Learning and 21st Century Teaching. Marc Prensky coined the now popular and famous phrase "Digital natives and digital immigrants" in his two papers by the same name. Ian Jukes talks about Digital Children.
Making the Case for a Wiki discusses a concept born in 1995 of wikis being simply user editable data storage. The term was taken from the Hawaiian term 'WikiWki, or "Super fast". A visual sample of a wiki would look like a thinking map with various links. Ward Cunningham described the wiki as 'the simplest online database that could possibly work." Wikis have other features which are not included in this description.
* A space containing pages that can be freely written or edited by anybody
* Pages may be added by the use of WikiWords that are automatically linked to a page referred to by that name.
* They are not usually written in HTML though some do allow HTML formatting to be used.
Emma Tonkins focuses on three concepts: 1) that Wikis lend themselves to research notebooks, 2). Concept mapping which is also validated by Novak in his research showing wikis are useful for brainstorming, and 3). Collaborative authoring through blogs. Lucy Suchman's pioneering approach to ethnography in the office environment concludes, "Knowing your audience, in computer -mediated communication means getting an understanding of the target community.
This research is essential in understanding the synergy which occurs in collaborative online learning environments and the importance of knowing your students. Online instructors must initiate social activities which encourage conversations to help the learning community get to know each other as well as the instructor. Creating a sense of community is an important element in online learning which must be cultivated, before students begin to collaborate on group projects. Students need to under