"...Whatever your plans are, have you considered how you might be able to share what you are learning with your colleagues? If you are an administrator, have you considered how to organize all of the learning in which your staff will participate so that everyone in the organization can benefit from the new skills and knowledge?..." 
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Very comprehensive how-to for educators who want to "flatten" their classrooms and provide students with the opportunity to engage in global collaborative learning. -- SDS
"Amazon.com: Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds: Move to Global Collaboration One Step at a Time (9780132610353): Julie Lindsay, Vicki A. Davis" 
Marco Fioretti describes a portable wiki and shows you how to get started with one that he recommends — Wiki on a Stick (WoaS). 
An IS professor at Boston College has replaced textbooks with wiki technology, which lets students better communicate with him and among themselves. "Last summer, we introduced Projects to make it easier to organize group projects on your wikis. This month, we’ve made Projects even more powerful by adding a scheduling component we’re calling Events. Events are an easy way to automate calendar-related actions: for example, you could set a due date that locks a Project, or send out automated announcements." 
Wild About Wikispaces in Education - Learn about wonderful wikispaces featers and view a glog of sample wikis used in our elementary school district. 
Ever since there was an internet, there's been a desire for schools to have a website. And, roughly a month after that, there were dated websites. For many schools, having a website was... |
"Organizations are using intranet wikis to document and share knowledge, promote collaboration, and even enhance learning. Below are 25 specific ways you can use wikis in your intranet..." It’s been a while since I’ve used wikis in a class (last May I believe), so I thought I needed to remind myself why I liked using them and how I made it work by writing a blog post. If ... 
If you're not already using wikis in class, learn about how these online collaborative writing tools add another dimension to learning. "...One of my take-aways from the day's conversation is that most of the technologies that we want to use to make textbooks interactive and meaningful for students already exist, we just need to organize and utilize them in a way that makes sense for teachers and students. I've combined that take-away with a recent request from a reader to delineate some ways that teachers can use Wikispaces to create this list of ideas for using wikis in classrooms..." 
In the study, conducted by Justin Reich for the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Distributed Collaborative Learning Communities Project, a sample of K12 wikis created by teachers for use in their classrooms were examined and rated on a scale of “wiki quality.” As someone who has worked with wikis quite a bit in my own work, and even written a book on the use of wikis for educators, I have a very big interest in studies of this nature... 
"If you're looking for a clean, simple platform for your students to use to create outlines together, share notes, or build reference pages, Hackpad is definitely worth giving a good look..." 
A Texas school district is trying to close its digital divide by distributing thousands of Apple tablet computers in a move that could make it the largest iPads program for students in the U.S. 
It's been years now since I've written anything here, but a conversation today on the Eighteenth-Century Questions Facebook page made me realize I ought to update my reports from Wikiland. I've bee... Wikis can be powerful teaching tools as well as tools for teachers' proffessional development. Here is a list of some worth visiting wikis. |
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