| Jean LeLoup & Bob Ponterio
SUNY Cortland © 2009 |
What's a Wiki ?
You know about Wikipedia, but just what is a wiki anyway? Do Wiki's have a place in your clasroom?
A wiki is an online space that looks like a web page. The difference is that visitors can add and edit the space. You can keep track of changes and who made changes. This makes a wiki an interesting tool for collaboration and for communication.
There are many services that provide a space where individuals can create and manage their own wiki. One popular service for free wikis for K-12 classroom teachers is wikispaces:
http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers
Wikispaces provides free wikis for anyone, but k-12 teachers can get a free wiki without ads that is closed to all except the students in the class. This addresses several concerns about sending students to online spaces.
http://www.wikispaces.com/help+Teachers
In order to explore how a wiki works, we will collaborate as a class to develop an overview of what we think is important in the Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia. The wiki space below has been set up for ICC 523:
Read and edit the page. Add information in your own words (no plagiarism please!) Feel free to modify/improve what others have written. Examine the history to see what others have changed, and make comments about the process or share opinions in the discussion thread. Be sure to leave your name so I can see who made which changes!
For more about wikis: