Education
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Educational Wiki Use
- Class and group projects to eliminate emails and make the content dynamic - logins and signatures make it easier for teachers to track the history/changes. It is more efficient than working in shared documents.
- As a knowledge base
- To design and document software projects.
- To track questions for/to/from students & faculty
- As a document management tool.
- As a class discussion/message board
Here are some sample wikis in educational settings that are public:
- Wikispaces hosts many blogs by teachers in grades K-20. I have collected some Wikispaces sites that I have worked on or consider noteworthy on a wiki itself.
- endoftheessay.wikispaces.com is one such site. I created this with Norbert Elliot while I was at NJIT as a way to encourage some collaboration and feedback from iTunes U users who had downloaded a podcast series The End of the Essay that I helped Dr. Elliot launch in 2007. --Ken 11:40, 24 February 2008 (EST)
- The Classroom 2.0 wiki is a supplement to the Classroom 2.0 social network site and is "devoted to building resources for the classroom and professional-development use of Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies. Hopefully, it provides you with a good overview of the technologies, some ideas for lesson plans, and then points you in the direction of more detailed resources. "
- Fairleigh Dickinson University (NJ) created a wiki of their document which is a "Guide to Quality Assurance for Online and Blended Classes" https://fdu-qa.wikispaces.com Here's a blog entry about it.
- At Brown University http://www.brown-college.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
- At St. Petersburg College http://it.spcollege.edu/pdwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
- Harvard's Cyberlaw wiki site http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~cyberlaw/wiki/index.php/Cyberlaw
- On Wikia (a collection of communal Web sites founded by the creator of Wikipedia) colleges can set up their own wikis. The wikis can be read by any Web surfer, but they can be set so that they can only be edited by the college's students, faculty and staff members.
- Pennsylvania State University is at http://students.wikia.com/wiki/Penn_State and
- Boston College can be viewed at http://students.wikia.com/wiki/Boston_College
- NJIT's Smart Campus Wiki is a mashup of a wiki with mobile social software https://wiki.njit.edu/
- Chris Shamburg at NJ City University created a wiki as a platform to explore issues of copyright, digital media, and education. It is built around a series of cases/scenarios with commentaries by his students and the public. It is a collaborative space for several of his courses in Educational Technology and anyone else interested in the subject. It is a pilot project and he encourages others to add meaningful content, correct any factual or grammatical errors in this site, and improve the design and formatting of pages. http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/copyright_in_education/copyright_in_education
- https://wiki.internet2.edu/confluence/display/TLSIG/Home is the home page for the Teaching and Learning special interest group in the Internet2 community. Their mission is "to increase awareness of and engagement in the uses of advanced networking technologies in support of teaching and learning activities throughout the Internet2 member community."
- FLOSS is a wiki that is part of Eduforge which is an open access environment designed for the sharing of ideas, research outcomes, open content and open source software for education. Registration is free. http://eduforge.org/wiki/wiki/iipecop/?pagename=HomePage
- New York City Lab School's Physics wiki is a city project with a growing number of wiki resources.
- Verso Wiki has resources to support the author's professional development activities for teachers, including stories and a simple game which is used as a resource for problem-based learning.
