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Contents 1 Overview of Wikisand Resources 2 USING A WIKI IN K-8 SCHOOLING 2.1 Curriculum development 2.1.1 Pro: 2.1.2 Con: 2.2 Teaching 2.2.1 Pro: 2.2.2 Con: 2.3 Learning 2.3.1 Pro: 2.3.2 Con: 2.4 Assessment 2.4.1 Pro: 2.4.2 Con: 2.5 Other Uses 2.5.1 Pro: 2.5.2 Con: 3 USING A WIKI IN GRADES 9-12 3.1 Curriculum development 3.1.1 Pro: 3.1.2 Con: 3.2 Teaching 3.2.1 Pro: 3.2.2 Con: 3.3 Learning 3.3.1 Pro: 3.3.2 Con: 3.4 Assessment 3.4.1 Pro: 3.4.2 Con: 3.5 Other Uses 3.5.1 Pro: 3.5.2 Con: 4 USING A WIKI IN HIGHER EDUCATION 4.1 Curriculum development 4.1.1 Pro: 4.1.2 Con: 4.2 Teaching 4.2.1 Pro: 4.2.2 Con: 4.3 Learning 4.3.1 Pro: 4.3.2 Con: 4.4 Assessment 4.4.1 Pro: 4.4.2 Con: 4.5 Other Uses 4.5.1 Pro: 4.5.2 Con: 5 USING A WIKI IN THE WORKPLACE 5.1 Curriculum development 5.1.1 Pro: 5.1.2 Con: 5.2 Teaching 5.2.1 Pro: 5.2.2 Con: 5.3 Learning 5.3.1 Pro: 5.3.2 Con: 5.4 Assessment 5.4.1 Pro: 5.4.2 Con: 5.5 Other Uses 5.5.1 Pro: 5.5.2 Con:

Overview of Wikisand Resources

Wikis in Plain English

Educational Wikis

Best Educational Wikis of 2011

Make your own on Wikispaces

How Brock Can Help One perspective:

USING A WIKI IN K-8 SCHOOLING

• Grade 2 Classroom Wiki
• Math Wiki for Teachers

Curriculum development

Pro:

• Access to many resources
• Easily shared among teachers, schools, etc

Con:

• Overwhelming
• Time consuming

HI HOW ARE YOU!?

Teaching

Pro:

• Tracking progress
• Instant feedback
• Can tailor to students needs

Con:

• Tech issues

Learning

Pro:

• Group Collaboration
• Flexibility (different work locations)
• Accessible to everyone

Con:

• Overwhelming to some students
• Tech issues
• Distraction

Assessment

Pro:

• Flexibility

Con:

• Hard for individual assessment

Other Uses

Pro:

• Accessible to parents

Con:

USING A WIKI IN GRADES 9-12

• High School History Class Wiki
• Geography Wiki

Curriculum development

Pro:

• starting new thread of information for others to look at
• open to more contributors than just students

Con:

• are you able to keep on track with the Ministry Curriculum with Student lead learning

Teaching

Pro:

• Net-etiquette
• Inclusive of all

Con:

• accessibility
• safety

Learning

Pro:

• creative
• engaging
• access to internet, wealth of knowledge to pull from

Con:

• Authentic information? How do you know?
• References are not needed

Assessment

Pro:

• constant feedback
• immediate/on going ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING

Con:

• who did the work? I used someone elses login!
• how do we know they know! (internet access)

Other Uses

Pro:

Con:

USING A WIKI IN HIGHER EDUCATION

• Article with a Variety of Ways Wikis Can be Used
• How Faculty Can Use Wikis

Curriculum development

Pro:

• can be edited by faculty and students

• collaborated with colleagues and other students
• syllabus could be multimedia

Con:

• students can change assignments
• too many changes can reduce value
• someone needs to keep organized

Teaching

Pro:

• replace tools like powerpoint and sakai
• always there & can be referenced

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

Learning

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

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

Assessment

Pro:

Con:

• done on student's own time - how do we know it is the student?

Other Uses

Pro:

• assess more broadly - more than just written text like an essay

Con:

USING A WIKI IN THE WORKPLACE

• Confluence
• 7 Wiki Uses and the Companies Using Them

) WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF WORK :)

Curriculum development

Pro:

• communication tool for learners, sharing ideas
• promotes collaboration of development of curriculm, promotes self-autonomy (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

Teaching

Pro:

• collaborative engagement of students, teacher control of addition and editing
• creative tool

Con:

• must have active participants....critical!!!
• loss of teacher input into curricula

Learning

Pro:

• collaborative learning
• learn research skills, team building,promotes global connections,

Con:

• ? validity of information

Assessment

Pro:

Con:

Other Uses

Pro:

• knowledge sharing tool

Con: