PowerPoint to accompany a presentation at the SLAQ Gold Coast Web2.0 Technology Roadshow, on 16 October, 2009. Presented by Anna-Mieke (Leo) Mulholland

1. Using Wikis in the Classroom Anna-Mieke Mulholland Teacher Librarian Emmanuel College

2. Teacher Librarians ...The leaders in the field... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g

3. Plan ... Why use wikis? Is it hard???? How to have a stress-free wiki-life Free and private wikis online

4. Why Use Wikis with Staff? It’s a great collective memory It’s a great dumping ground for ideas trawled from conversations Great way to store practical policies Problem solving with departmental issues Work with other teachers to create collaborative lesson plans (link to a reflective blog??)

6. Using Wikis with Students Great place to store resources eg, annotated bibliographies, websites, writing samples Maintain a journal of group work Create a glossary of terms as students work through a unit Peer review (link to a blog?) Organise a group!

8. Thoughts on keeping it stress-free... First time round, they need lots of support to remind them why and how. Don’t feel it has to be beautiful. It’s scrap paper. Get the kids to develop organisational tools, eg, colour coding their work. Check it. Email them or add to their wiki.

9. ... Stress free wikis.. Teach the students first, let them play on one for the whole class, then give them the real thing. They need to get the “plays” out of their systems. Actively teach them to use attachments, add hyperlinks, create new pages if necessary. Remember, you know more than them.

10. Wiki-spaces – free and private http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers You can get an ad –free wikispace for free as an educator http://www.wikispace.com/ not as pretty... www.google.com Yes- Google even does wikis ... And they’re the prettiest I’ve seen.

11. Great ideas.. See this site for a list of 50 ways of using a wiki http://tiny.cc/QiVru