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Blended Learning with Wikispaces By: Melissa Aho Escanaba Public Schools Michigan Reading Association Conference View online at: http://dsisdwikispaces.wikispaces.com/ Sunday, March 9, 14

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Blended Learning with WikispacesBy: Melissa Aho

Escanaba Public SchoolsMichigan Reading Association Conference

View online at: http://dsisdwikispaces.wikispaces.com/

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What is Blended Learning?

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Wikispaces is a tool that can be used in Blended Learning

What is a Wiki? (Watch the video)

Why have a Wikispace?

How can teachers use them to in their classrooms?

What are some good resources and examples I can use as a guide?

How do you set up a Wikispace?

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What is a wiki?Wikis move your student beyond the Web 1.0 classroom (strictly reading information) to a Web 2.0 experience (more interactive).

The word "wiki" comes from Hawaiian language, meaning "quick" or "fast."

A wiki is a web site that lets any visitor become a participant:  you can create or edit the actual site contents without any special technical knowledge or tools. All you need is a computer with an Internet connection.

A wiki is continuously “under revision.” It is a living collaboration whose purpose is the sharing of the creative process and product by many.

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The evolution of the Wiki?It was introduced in 1995 by Ward Cunningham.

The first Wikis were used in restricted circles for corporations and computer programming as a place to facilitate communication.

2001: Wikipedia- first wiki for the general public.

2002-2009: Explosion of wikis and wide use in the public- many programs created.

2005-Wikispaces is created.

2010: Wikileaks- leaked private government documents to the public, which leads the public to ask “Should the public have access to so much information?”

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What is a Wikispace?A wiki is an online extension of your classroom.

Wikispace is my preferred wiki program: http://www.wikispaces.com

14 million users, Free for educators

No fine print, no usage limits, no advertising, no catches.

It is very user friendly, especially for teachers

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Why use a Wikispace?It’s the future of education- The State of Michigan considers “best practices” as providing an online learning experience for students.

It brings an “online” learning experience to your classroom

Simplicity and Accessibility

Collaboration

Active Learning

Project-Based Learning

Organization of your best learning resources

Kids love it! It can reach the “unreachable”

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How can use a Wikispace in the Classrooom?

Classroom Organization

Classroom Content

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Classroom OrganizationAs one teacher says, “The wiki is my hub. I guess you could say, I have a wiki-centric classroom. Whether it is blogs, podcasts, wikis, or vodcasts, if it is created in my classroom it is linked on the wiki. If the student creates it, they are to link it. It gives us one place to organize and post and one place to send content to me.”

Parent-Teacher Communication (You can post monthly newsletters on the wiki)

Post unit plans, homework assignment links, study guides, pacing guides, and any other resources you want students to have access to anytime and anywhere.

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Classroom ContentLesson summaries/ class notes/ videos (even Khan Academy!)

Work on projects, group or individual (links well with YouTube)

Discussion/ peer or teacher editing

Journaling/Reading responses

Science Fair Projects

Student Portfolios

Literature Circles

Research

Collaborative Writing: Newspapers, poetry, stories

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Awesome Wikis(The good news is that you don’t have to re-invent the wheel- there is

soooo much out there already!)Lots of ideas: http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com/Examples+of+educational+wikis

Using a wiki as a classroom syllabus

http://survey-of-literature.wikispaces.com/home

Junior High Language Arts Classroom Wiki

http://wikizaki.wikispaces.com/home

Winner of the Best Educational Wiki (this page is AMAZING!)

http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/

Resources for History Teachers

http://resourcesforhistoryteachers.wikispaces.com/

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Other Wiki Providers

Wetpaint

http://www.wetpaintcentral.com/

PB Wiki

http://pbworks.com/

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Let’s do it!Questions?

You will have the rest our time to work on setting up your own Wikispace page.

Create pages on your new wikispace page for each unit you teach and start linking the resources you use for the units to your page

Gather new resources :)

I’m here to help you get started!Sunday, March 9, 14