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[edit] Overview of Wikisand Resources
Best Educational Wikis of 2011
How Brock Can Help One perspective:
[edit] USING A WIKI IN K-8 SCHOOLING
[edit] Curriculum development
[edit] Pro:
- Access to many resources
- Easily shared among teachers, schools, etc
[edit] Con:
- Overwhelming
- Time consuming
HI HOW ARE YOU!?
[edit] Teaching
[edit] Pro:
- Tracking progress
- Instant feedback
- Can tailor to students needs
[edit] Con:
- Tech issues
[edit] Learning
[edit] Pro:
- Group Collaboration
- Flexibility (different work locations)
- Accessible to everyone
[edit] Con:
- Overwhelming to some students
- Tech issues
- Distraction
[edit] Assessment
[edit] Pro:
- Flexibility
[edit] Con:
- Hard for individual assessment
[edit] Other Uses
[edit] Pro:
- Accessible to parents
[edit] Con:
[edit] USING A WIKI IN GRADES 9-12
[edit] Curriculum development
[edit] Pro:
- starting new thread of information for others to look at
- open to more contributors than just students
[edit] Con:
- are you able to keep on track with the Ministry Curriculum with Student lead learning
[edit] Teaching
[edit] Pro:
- Net-etiquette
- Inclusive of all
[edit] Con:
- accessibility
- safety
[edit] Learning
[edit] Pro:
- creative
- engaging
- access to internet, wealth of knowledge to pull from
[edit] Con:
- Authentic information? How do you know?
- References are not needed
[edit] Assessment
[edit] Pro:
- constant feedback
- immediate/on going ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING
[edit] Con:
- who did the work? I used someone elses login!
- how do we know they know! (internet access)
[edit] Other Uses
[edit] Pro:
[edit] Con:
[edit] USING A WIKI IN HIGHER EDUCATION
[edit] Curriculum development
[edit] Pro:
- can be edited by faculty and students
- collaborated with colleagues and other students
- syllabus could be multimedia
[edit] Con:
- students can change assignments
- too many changes can reduce value
- someone needs to keep organized
[edit] Teaching
[edit] Pro:
- replace tools like powerpoint and sakai
- always there & can be referenced
[edit] Con:
- time consuming, especially initial setup
- learning curve
- copy right issues if using text books etc. to compliment wiki
- wiki may become the vehicle, not the professor - it may take over
[edit] Learning
[edit] Pro:
- skill of working with a wiki
- simple to get access to material
- multi-media different learning sytles are supported
- reinforce - can read over
- collaboration among students
[edit] Con:
- class interaction may suffer
- rely on content of wiki instead of looking for other resources
- overwhelming - too much content
- how do you know if you can trust the content
[edit] Assessment
[edit] Pro:
[edit] Con:
- done on student's own time - how do we know it is the student?
[edit] Other Uses
[edit] Pro:
[edit] Con:
[edit] USING A WIKI IN THE WORKPLACE
- ) WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF WORK :)
[edit] Curriculum development
[edit] Pro:
- communication tool for learners, sharing ideas
- promotes collaboration of development of curriculm, promotes self-autonomy (edit)
[edit] Con:
- time consuming
- must be comfortable and able to navigate the tool. Must be computer literate and have good writing, reading and typing skills
[edit] Teaching
[edit] Pro:
- collaborative engagement of students, teacher control of addition and editing
- creative tool
[edit] Con:
- must have active participants....critical!!!
- loss of teacher input into curricula
[edit] Learning
[edit] Pro:
- collaborative learning
- learn research skills, team building,promotes global connections,
[edit] Con:
- ? validity of information
[edit] Assessment
[edit] Pro:
[edit] Con:
[edit] Other Uses
[edit] Pro:
- knowledge sharing tool