1. Wiki-centric Classrooms
Using Wikis to Organize
Teacher and Student Work
Presented by Amity Beane
Dirigo High School
2. What is a wiki?
What is a wiki-centric classroom?
What tools are needed
What are the ethics
Make your own wiki
Share/reflect
3. What is a wiki, anyway?
• Wiki comes from the Hawaiian word for “quick”--wiki wiki means something
is done quickly
• Wikis are websites that facilitate publishing and organizing multimedia
• Wikis can be private and password-protected or made open and public
• Wikipedia is a well-known example of how wikis are public, communal ports
of knowledge
• Wikispaces is a web-host for wikis that offers free private wikis to educators
• Wiki-centric classrooms are being used in k-12 and higher educational
settings.
5. What Are Wiki-Centric Classrooms?
Wiki-centric classrooms
use wikis as:
• A place to store data for assessment
• A place to publish work
• A place to organize ideas
• A place to present final drafts
• A place to keep a calendar
• A place to host videos and screen-casts
• A place to organize photos
• A place to list resources
6. What tools are needed for a
wiki-centric classroom?
• One to one computers
• Internet access
• Accounts with different data services
• Knowledge of how the web works
• Off-line instructional strategies
• Assessment rubrics for final drafts
7. What are the ethical issues of
a wiki-centric classroom?
• Teach that the network represents an ecology: something alive
• The best filter is the human conscience-- teaching ethical behavior and
modeling ethical behavior is essential
• Teach source citation and copyright law
• Protect creativity
• The flow of knowledge has a human side
• Protect the human side
