2008 Rotorua Conference

learning@school

Shaping teaching and learning in the 21st century Ko te whenu hou te tau

learning@school Rotorua New Zealand February 2008

Collaborative Learning through Wikis

Elizabeth O’Hagan&

Chris Lynch

Things to think about…

- What is your end outcome?

- Access to computers/internet

- Web 2.0 tools

- Parental consent

- Time for the project

- Copyright!!!

What do we use wiki’s for…

- Information site for students & parents

- Workplace for students either individual or collaborative

Collaboration through wikis…

- Class group work placed on wikis

- Evaluations

- External collaboration – group work has to occur online

Collaboration through group work

- Writing

- Research – and presenting links to information

- Photo essays

- Web 2.0 tools

Web 2.0 tools

- toondoo

- Booksie

- Make “movies” using photos - slideroll

- Signs

- Google docs

Collaboration through evaluation

- Students give feedback on other students work on the wiki

- Blogging

Online collaboration “externally”

- Groups create their page together

- Use the discussion tab

- Google docs

- Skype

Ins and Outs…

- Kids joining the wiki

- Editing pages

- Deleted work

- Inappropriate work

- Monitoring pages

- Private/non private spaces

Literacy levels

Access at home?

Access?

Computer skills

The Limitations?

Teachers?

Reasons to Get Around the Limitations..

- Wiki’s are fun

- Wiki’s provide a real audience

- Wiki-ing raises standards / expectations

- Wiki-ing enables creativity

Making it happen