1. The Wiki-inspired Classroom: Amy McCauley
Email: amymccauley@gmail.com
Twitter: @AmyMMcCauley
Blog: amymmcc.blogspot.co.nz
Class Wiki: pinehillrm14twentytwelve.wikispaces.com

3. Learning Outcomes:
Define Wikispaces
Examples of classroom use
How to set-up your classroom wiki
Useful tools for using in Wikispaces
Other uses (e.g. planning)

4. The Read-Only Web
Powerful resource for educators and
students but...
Information moves from publishers to
consumers
Information cannot be added
The One-Way Web
Web 1.0

5. The Read/ Write Web
It is now as easy to create as it is to
consume
Anyone can publish, share and change
information
Two-Way Web
Web 2.0
This is our changing world!

6. Wiki’s
Websites anyone can edit
If you use a word processor, you can use a
wiki
Visitors can see a history of changes and
revert to earlier versions
Visitors can discuss the page in a threaded
forum

7. Defining Wikispaces

8. Wiki Vs. Blog

9. Examples of Classroom
Use
Think about what purpose your wiki will
serve in your classroom...
The WHY...
We will look at some examples of how to use
wiki’s in the classroom
http://wikispiredclassroom.wikispaces.com/
Examplary+Wikispaces

10. Centralising Online Learning
Within your
classroom wiki,
you may want
to have your
online resources
in one place.

11. Sharing Learning
Students can have their own spaces to share their
learning.
They can either have their own wiki or a page within
the class wiki

12. Sharing Learning
Student pages within the class wiki
Students come under the umbrella of your
class wiki.
They create pages within their wiki
Students can easily navigate between each
others wiki’s, including using the comment
feature to comment on each others work.
http://2012pinehill19.wikispaces.com/home

13. Sharing Learning
Student pages within the class wiki

14. Sharing Learning
Students own Wiki
Students have their own Wikispace
Create links from your class wiki to student
pages
Students have greater control over their
space
Teacher is the organiser, students are
members
http://pinehillrm14twentytwelve.wikispaces.com/home

15. Sharing Learning
Students own Wiki

16. Sharing Learning
Organiser vs Member

17. Communicating Between Home
Put all your newsletters, timetables and
letters home on your wiki

18. Opportunities for Reflection
Students can reflect on their learning
My students film some lessons and reflect on
what they learned, then upload this to their
wiki
Students (& parents) can also look back at
resources used in class

19. Opportunities for Reflection
Blogging
A blog format can be embed in the wiki
My students use this as a reflection tool

20. How to set up your class wiki
Set-up Wiki Account
Play!
Setting Up
http://wikispiredclassroom.wikispaces.com/Setting+Up
Classroom Set-up
http://wikispiredclassroom.wikispaces.com/Classroom+Set+Up

21. How to...Videos
Look at the how to videos
http://wikispiredclassroom.wikispaces.com/How+to%27s

22. Specific Tools in The
Classroom
Comments
Monitoring Students
Tags
RSS Feed

23. Thank you!