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A wiki where fans edit information about things they like. Another example of a wiki that is somewhat of an offsping of wikipedia. As Wikipedia has gotten more formal in editing requirements, those who like the free-er atmosphere from the early days of wikipedia are moving elsewhere to places like this. This wiki has no notability requirements. Anything can be added that one likes.
It looks like, however, that this site has locked down editing (for now) because they didn't have enough editors. However, this is a pretty large wiki.
Kevin Duncan's Flat Classroom certified teacher project proposal revolves around his current Korea-USA sociology project. If you want to see what students and classrooms are doing with long term relationships, look at this wiki.
Students are writing their own textbooks. This one by The Advanced Placement United States GovernmentElectronic Textbook created by theSt. Gregory College Preparatory School'sSenior AP Government Class 2010
With such things that can be handed down to other students, so many questions come to mind including accuracy but also whether such a tool has value in lieu of traditional textbooks.
Although not updated for some time, this wiki has been helpful in my wiki research. This shows the advantage of moving the master's thesis research online. It becomes a useful part of scholarly research. This wiki is dedicated to wikis in writing education research.
The one thing I'd love to see is eventually that such projects would become legacies where another student could build on what has already been created either through a template or handing it off like a baton, but so much of how academia is set up screams opposition to this. But why should a great wiki like this die when the creator graduates?
A study from this past January shows that 53 per cent of online Americans use Wikipedia. In order to improve the accuracy of Wikipedia and other sources like it, we need to teach students how to collaboratively edit.
My classroom wiki - I have a wiki centric classroom.
in list: Wikis, Fantastic Classroom Tools
Great video made by Flat Classroom teacher, Brian McLaughlin for our Flat Classroom project. This is teachersourcing at its best. We all work together and help all of our students move forward. Such a phenomenal community of teachers. Great video for reviewing. The techniques used here are a bit different than typical wikis because we have 70-100 kids editing each wiki page.
K3 through PhD now can have free wikis!! Wikispaces has aggressively given free ad-free wikis for K-12 but is now extending that to higher education. It is important to have ad free wikis because content on a page can inadvertently trigger innappropriate ads (i.e. you're studying sexual history and you get ads for seedy websites) - this is GREAT news.
Review of the new book Macrowikinomics by Tapscott and Williams. This is a book that I've got to dive back into more deeply this month as we prep for another NetGenEd this spring.
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Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams coined the term “wikinomics” in their 2006 tome of that name. Their central insight was that collaboration is getting rapidly cheaper and easier. The web gives amateurs access to world-class communications tools and worldwide markets. It makes it easy for large groups of people who have never met to work together. And it super-charges innovation: crowds of people can develop new ideas faster than isolated geniuses and disseminate them even faster.
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the internet’s effects are more widely felt every day. In “Wikinomics” the authors looked at its impact on particular businesses. In their new book they look at how it is shaking up some of the core institutions of modern society: the media, universities, government and so on. It is a Schumpeterian story of creative destruction.
Excellent article on the digital tools and how many educators are using them over at Education week.
I just love these Math screencasts that they are doing in North Rockland Central School District in New York with Craig Mantin. So many things they are doing there are exciting!
This is an example of how I used Diigo to create an annotated link to give feedback on a wiki on Flat Classroom. I love using Diigo for giving wiki feedback because I can mark up the page. I like ot share them through groups that are private with my students and I and the annotated link feature is one of the best ways to do this.
New site that lets you write collaboratively - they say they are using it quite a bit with schools.
Some interesting ideas, with examples of each.
This is the wiki page for one of my former student (she was in the first Flat Classroom class and in Tom Friedman's book along with me) -- thiws is what they are using for the cultural anthropology class at Florida State University. She was so excited because she was one of the only students in the class who knew how to use a wiki at all! She says the others are lost.
It is time for you to wake up and smell the paper burning! Time to get on board and make sure students know how to use these tools!
This wiki presentation from k12 online a few years back is still current and on this page you'll find a low res and high res video as well as a notebook to use when you watch the video, a wiki grading rubric and a chart about the components of an effective Web 2 classroom.
I just emailed it to another person - when people say they are starting wikis, I always send this out.
So, is Wikipedia headed out? Some scientists have found that:
"The number of articles added per month flattened out at 60,000 in 2006 and has since declined by around a third. They also found that the number of edits made every month and the number of active editors both stopped growing the following year, flattening out at around 5.5 million and 750,000 respectively."
I have to wonder if their changes in who can edit has caused this shift. People still look at it (I do) to kick off research.
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The number of articles added per month flattened out at 60,000 in 2006 and has since declined by around a third. They also found that the number of edits made every month and the number of active editors both stopped growing the following year, flattening out at around 5.5 million and 750,000 respectively.
Wikispaces is hosting a free webinar. THe email to me today says:
"Wikispaces Education Webinar: Join us on August 6 for our Education
Webinar. We'll focus on features that teachers have found useful in
their classrooms and hear from Nicole Naditz, a French educator and
foreign language pedagogy trainer. Nicole has used wikis in her French
classrooms and as resource pools for her colleagues. Join us as she
shares her wikis including an e-pal exchange and a solar power project
with a school in Burkina Faso."
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