ACTEM

ACTEM presentation Wikis that Work: In the classroom "How To"

Catie Wooten and David Pearl, Yarmouth High School

Temperature Taking: Rationale - Why we LOVE wikis assignments - not just HW, but also classwork - Parallel Classroom (Catie) content - File cabinet/ Text (David)
 * Do you know what a wiki is?
 * How many people have a wiki?
 * What do you want to know about wikis in the classroom?
 * makes our course more engaging
 * it makes our life easier
 * Overview**
 * mostly teacher edited (Frontline Video)
 * David Pearl- wiki 1.0
 * Catie Wooten- wiki 2.0
 * Louise Maine - [|wiki 3.0]
 * 1) Engagement
 * 2) student ownership
 * 3) study for tests
 * 4) special ed and absences
 * 5) parent access
 * 6) sharing with colleagues
 * 1) how to organize content
 * 2) by unit
 * 3) and by assignment hosting videos
 * 4) exemplars
 * 5) rubrics
 * 6) class note-taker
 * Collaboration**

student - access and adding Peer- Professional Learning Community - Collaboration (David) Getting Started on your own: Time - 30 minutes: dig in.
 * 1) indirect adding content (students sending links)
 * 2) examples - Animalia, Geography of Egypt
 * 3) assessment - how to - using "history" tab to see students' edits to pages
 * 1) What it takes to get started - time, start small
 * 2) Philosophical Shift- not "my wiki" but "our wiki"
 * 3) how you can use other people in your building as resources.
 * setting up a wiki
 * using wiki as a platform
 * keep it simple at first


 * List of Resources**


 * Wikispaces - Get an ad-free wiki: []
 * Edutopia article about using wikis in classrooms: []
 * Our wikis: http://yhs-wooten.wikispaces.com/ and http://worldhistoryatyhs.wikispaces.com/
 * Edutopia article about Louise Maine's parallel classroom: []
 * Louise Maine's Wiki - what I aspire to: []
 * Wiki wisdom - tips for getting started: []