Wikis for Kannapolis City Schools
Clif Mims


AGENDA

My educational technology wiki is publicly available and provides resources related to the effective integration of technology with teaching and learning. You now have the opportunity to begin developing your own professional blog or wiki.

Create a blog or wiki that can be used by you, your students, and perhaps others around the world. Note that this is intended to be a professional/ educational resource and NOT a personal blog or wiki. You might consider designing your blog or wiki around the following themes/ to include the following information and resources:

• Area for online peer review
• Place for online collaboration
• Means for taking and sharing class notes and resources
• Subject area (Math, Social Studies, etc.)
• Theme or unit that you teach (Shakespeare, space, exercise, friendship, etc.)
• Student resources
• Parental resources and support
• Classroom rules and course policies
• Course description, syllabus, etc.
• Teacher resources

Resources

• Wikis in Plain English - a video overview and tutorial
• Watch this video about teachers that use wikis in their classrooms.
• Wetpaint's Wikis in Education Resources
• Wiki's in Education module from Teaching and Learning with Web 2.0
  

Examples

• History Happening
• Clif's Wiki
• Share More
  
• Flat Classroom Project
  
• Hillview Web Class
  
• Exploring Geography

Activity

• NOTE: Adhere to your school district's guidelines regarding photographing students and publishing student information, work, etc.
• Create your blog or wiki using one of the following resources.
  • Wetpaint
  • PBwiki
    
  • Zoho wiki
  • Wikispaces
    
• Your project should include at least:
  
  • Sample content/activity for you and/or your students.
• Begin developing a system of tags/keywords that will be useful to you and your students.
• Add at least 2 links to other resources related to your wiki. These may be added in your blogroll or as links depending on the online tool you choose to use.
• Include References/Acknowledgments in your blog or wiki as appropriate.
  • For copyright reasons you should always do this.
  • Be sure to teach your students and colleagues to do this, too.

Ongoing ConversationNotes, resources, ideas, activities, etc., related to this topic can be posted here by anyone in an effort to continue the conversation.

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