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WikiEdProfessional eLearning Guidebook - WikiEducator
always learning » The Perfect Match: Technology Integration and Understanding by Design
To me, technology facilitator isn’t just about bringing technology into the core classrooms, it’s about the process - the process of learning how to plan a new unit in a new way, using new tools…
The Bamboo Project Blog: 5 Uses for a Wiki at Work
Mashups - Open, Connected, and Social
WikiMindMap
e-learning 2.0: All You Need To Know
Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive 15 Productive Uses for a Wiki «
Emerging Perspectives on Learning, Teaching and Technology
When Wikis Won't Work: 10 Questions to Ask Before Full Adoption
Wikipatterns - Wiki Patterns
Chemistry with Mr. Olson
Wetpaint wiki used for chemistry class. Each element has a "profile" page with information, written in the first person (as if the element is creating the profile). The sodium profile is really well done, with several videos and a good mix of media.
WikiMatrix
Compare numerous wiki platforms, including Wikispaces, Wetpaint, & PBwiki. Also includes a wizard for helping you choose a wiki.
Wikinomics » Blog Archive » Wiki collaboration leads to happiness
Great visual showing how much simpler collaborating on documents with a wiki is than emailing attachments back and forth. Based on a report of collaboration within the US intelligence community (hence the logo for the wiki side of the table).
Wikispaces Blog » Blog Archive » A Classroom Wiki Webquest
7th & 8th grade wiki on rock history, where students researched and presented information on the wiki. The instructor also acknowledges learning a lot from her students on using Photobucket and other tools in combination with the wiki.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: Wikis for Curriculum Development and Instructional Materials
Description of a group that used a wiki to develop curriculum
Reflections on Fourth Grade Collaborations | always learning
Kim Cofino reflects on doing the 1001 Flat World Tales with 4th graders--what the students learned and what she learned about managing these types of projects.
nets-implementation » home
Wiki collecting examples of how the National Education Technology Standards for Students (NETS-S) are being implemented
Sage Advice on Wiki Adoption: Keys to Success
Best practices for wiki adoption in organizations:
- Start with what you already do
- Don't mandate--let it grow naturally
- Invite Senior Leadership
- Find the Champions
- Practice what you preach
90-9-1 Theory - Wiki Patterns
Wiki Patterns explanation of participation in a wiki with the 90-9-1 theory. This includes some of the statistics of participation for Wikipedia and other community sites.
The 90-9-1 theory explains the percentage of a wiki's participation, breaking it down as readers being the highest percent, with minor contributors composing the 9 percent and enthusiastic and active contributors composing 1 percent of the total participants in a wiki.
While it is impossible to overcome this type of human behaviour, it is possible to change the participation distribution (i.e 80-16-4 where 80% are lurkers, 16% contribute a little and 4% contribute the most).
Wikis in Higher Education (and at UD) - Mathieu Plourde
Profiles of multiple professors using wikis for their courses at the University of Delaware
Four Letter Words - How wiki and edit are making the Internet a better teaching tool - Using Wiki in Education -
Chapter in a "wiki book" (2 chapters are free, others require payment for the book). The beginning of this chapter is a basic intro to wikis, but the graphics explaining the workflow are interesting. The author argues that when you work with wikis, you get all the logistic pieces out of the way early in the creative process, leaving more time for actual writing and collaboration. In practice, I think there are times when you have to address the logistics issues throughout the process, but it's greatly reduced with wikis.
<p>The above example demonstrates the power of the wiki to make collaboration more inclusive and knowledge construction efficient, distributed and fast. If you think about this visually, the email/Word scenario has limited periods of creativity separated by the logistical and socially sensitive task of combining edits:</p>
<p></p><div align="center"><img src="/download/attachments/54/ch1-lowproductivetime.jpg" border="0"></div><p></p>
<p>The wiki completely changes this by shifting logistics to the shortest possible segment of time at the outset, leaving a much greater period of time for collaborative creativity and knowledge construction:</p>
<p></p><div align="center"><img src="/download/attachments/54/ch1-highproductivetime.jpg" border="0"></div>