Wikis are powerful tools for the classroom and schools. The presentation at ISTE 2012 had many hands on tutorials, however, this presentation includes the outline and links to projects mentioned during the session.

1. Wonderful World of Wiki Teaching
todaysmeet.com/wikiiste
Backchannel
Make sure
You make a
wikispaces
wiki.
Adam Frey – www.wikispaces.com
Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher Helpers: Tom Whitby
http://www.flatclassroomproject.org
Ben Curran @engaginged Lisette Casey

2. Go ahead, Make My Wiki!
Adam Frey
todaysmeet.com/wikiiste
@wikispaces
1. Survey Audience
2. Features for Managing • A Quick Look at Some
Wikis Advanced Features.
• Quick Teacher Basics: Templates, Backlinks,
Creating an account and Wanted Pages, Member
a wiki, our K-12 upgrade, Statistics, Includes,
creating student Schedule Events,
accounts, privacy, locking Templates, Comments,
pages, contacting us for Google Apps Integration
help • Widgets
• Advanced Permissions • Projects and Pre-
• Strategies for Setting Up assigning teams (new
Large Numbers of Users feature)

3. Go ahead Make My Wiki!
• Sign up at www.wikispaces.com
• Make a “space”
– You will be working on your own wiki during this
session.

4. Wikis in the Classroom
Vicki Davis
todaysmeet.com/wikiiste
@coolcatteacher
II. Pedagogical Uses of
Large-Scale Wikis in the
Classroom with Examples- Collaborative Writing in
Vicki Davis -15 minutes III. Becoming Scalable the Cloud bit.ly/LZEdQ6
* A note about the discussion A. Assignments & Templates
tab B. Tags
* Starting and ending class C. Wiki Collaboration & What
A. Elementary Wiki Samples to do about Wiki Wars - What
(including a week in the life it means to collaborate - right
project with 1,000+ and wrong way to
elementary students using a collaborate.
wiki simultaneously.) D. Building a CMP
B. Middle School Wiki (Classroom Monitoring
Samples (including Digiteen) Portal)
C. High School Wiki Samples E. Handling private issues
- (NetgenEd, Flat Classroom) G. Project Groups

5. “We can’t have a world class education without
the world.” @coolcatteacher
Flat Classroom Conference
Bejing, China 2011

6. “…you can’t just drop
new innovations into a
classroom and hope
that the instructor will
invent effective ways
to use them. To fully
utilize a new teaching
technology, you often
need to invent new
teaching practices as
well.”
John Seely Brown, Visiting Scholar, University of
Southern California
Flat Classroom Conference 2011
Beijing, China
“Web 2 Kung Fu” speedsharing invented

7. Community of Practice
• “communities of practice are formed by
people who engage in a process of
collective learning in a shared domain of
human endeavor.” (Lave and Wegner)
Backchannel:
todaysmeet.com/ccssiste
#ccsiste

8. Discussion Tab
Why is the discussion tab so important to
have effective collaboration on the wiki?
http://tinyurl.com/iste2012wiki

9. 3 R’s of Global Collaboration
•Receive
•Read
•Respond
P 128-130

10. Communications in the 21st
Century p 64-67

11. Klossner’s
doesn’t cut it
in the
classroom!
Klossner’s (2010) 90-9-1 principle
P 128
Step 4: Contribute &
Collaborate

12. READ AND RESPOND
(FIRST 5)
1. Review PLN – Respond to Meaningful discussions, wall
posts, or “cries for help”
• If using igoogle just check there – if not then:
• Ning
• Wiki Discussion Tab
2. Do this EVERY DAY!!
3. Your engagement level determines the engagement level
of others.

13. READ, RESEARCH &
WRITE (MOST OF TIME)
• Research
• Google News Search http://news.google.com (get RSS)
• Diigo Group (standard tags)
• Newsmap (google it!)
• Teacher information

14. READ
Read what others have written and see are there any:
•Errors (Fix it.)
•Repetition (consolidate.)
•Missing Links (Add them.)
•Copyright issues
• Let them know.
• Reword
• Cite Sources
TAKE OWNERSHIP – this is OURS not yours, not theirs, not
mine or yours but OURS!

15. READ
What is missing? (Add it)
What is confusing? (Make it simple.)
Is it summarized at the top?
Does the summary at the top reflect what you’ve put
in there?
Included in the current news?

16. WRITE: HYPERLINK
In context. CONTEXTUAL
Emphasize IMPORTANT words.
Eliminate DISTRACTING hyperlinks.
Proper Nouns (first time they occur in a SECTION.)
Concise.
Cite Sources if you quote directly AND hyperlink.

17. WRITE: EDIT
Less is more.
If you see it fix it.
Put things where they belong.
Look at the big picture

18. RECAP AND WRITE
(LAST 5 MINUTES)
Recap what you did – Wiki discussion tab. Ask questions.
A good recap includes:
•What you did today.
•Other things you think need to be done.
•Where you plan to pick up next time.
•Issues you think there are with the wiki.
•Let others know if you will be offline for a while or are done.

19. Wiki Touring
• http://tinyurl.com/iste2012wiki

20. Wiki Permission Planning Template
Flat Classroom® Project
Task Non Members Members Administrators
Discussions
Editing (the default)
Editing Exceptions
Calendar /
Instructions
Home Page
Viewing
Viewing Exceptions
Teacher
meetings

21. Relationship to Common Core
Decide your text type & purpose,
Plan determine timeframe, production
& distribution method
Set Up Reality check to select tool and set up.
W.x.7 Conduct research projects
Research &
W.x.8 Gather relevant information
Draft
W.x.9 Draw evidence
Content
Editing See content editing cycle.
Assessment Summative & formative throughout.
Legacy W.x.10 Write over varied time
frames for a variety of tasks,
Kaizen purposes and audiences

22. W.x.7 Conduct research
projects Revision
W.x.8 Gather relevant
information
W.x.9 Draw evidence
Citation and Discussions &
Permission Feedback
Content Editing Cycle
W.x.4 Production and
distribution
W.x.5 Develop and
strengthen writing
W.x.6 Use technology
Monitoring &
Troubleshooting
Engagement

23. Planning a sample Project
W.x.2 Write informative/ explanatory
Plan
texts with other classrooms.
Set Up Wiki.
Research & Diigo Group
Draft Standard Tags
Content
Editing See content editing cycle.
Assessment Summative & formative throughout.
Legacy Wiki included in student efolio.
Feedback survey
Kaizen Celebrations

24. Vicki Davis
@coolcatteacher
Flat Classroom® Project P10-11*
@flatclassroom
Digiteen™ Project P11-12
@digiteen
‘A Week in the Life…’ Project Gr3-5 P13-14
@flatclassroom
NetGenEd™ Project P12-13
@netgened
Eracism™ Project
P13
@eracismproject
Incubator Program
NEW!
@flatclassroom
K-2 Project Building Bridges to Tomorrow
NEW!
@flatclasskids
*See the frameworks for each model on referenced page numbers.

25. Join the Global Book
Club – March 2012
www.flatclassroombook.com