How+Can+Teachers+Instruct+Wikis?

=How Can Teachers Introduce Wikis to Students?=

 **//Wondering how you can use a Wiki in your classroom and use all of the above? Here is a great 2-3 day project to try…// **  ****__2-3 Day Project__ ** **__How to Train STUDENTS and TEACHERS to Use a WIKI… __** 1. Sign-up for a free wikispace at wikispaces.com 2. Split students into 2-3 student teams. 3. Give students six words to define using resources on the net so that they could understand the emerging concept of Web 2.0. 4. Give each student group a word to investigate. Assign students to create a page with a partner of their choosing, that would help them study for an exam or complete a project in the next week.
 *  21st Century Learning—Project-based Learning-- Web 2.0 Tools--Authentic Assessment—YIKES **
 * __Directions: __**
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> blogosphere **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> wiki pages **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> social bookmarking **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> podcasting **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> RSS Feeds **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> folksonomy **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">JINGS **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Wikis vs Jings vs Blogs **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> SAMPLE of this assignment: http://westwood.wikispaces.com/Web+2.0 **
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Guidelines __**__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">: __
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Ask them to post meaningful, relevant information on their topic.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Ask them to summarize information they found on the Net and to link to it.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Ask them to continue to read their topic and ask themselves -- "What do I not understand about this topic?" and then to proceed to answer that question and post their findings.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Ask them to use some of the websites that they read about.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Inform them that are not allowed to delete information of another unless it is redundant or they paraphrased/edited it to make it better. ***For true collaboration: Have two classes working on the same pages.***
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">On the third day, Give each team 5 minutes to present their topic . Have them summarize and demonstrate the use of their term in action.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">At the conclusion of the presentation, ask all students to post a comment on the page providing feedback or asking questions. (This was just to introduce them to the feature and to keep them focused on the task at hand.)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Authentic Assessment: Use as a Test or Quiz Grade **


 * SAMPLE of this assignment:** http://westwood.wikispaces.com/Westwood+wikilinks+page.)

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">*** You DO NOT have to use these topics. Choose one of your own relative to your subject area. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">

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**Project #2: Create a Style Guide for Your Classes**
= =  What is a Style Guide ?

A **style guide** or **style manual** is a set of standards for design and writing of documents, either general use or for a specific publication or organization. A set of standards for a specific organization is known as "house style". Style guides are prevalent for general and specialized use, for the general reading and writing audience, and for students and scholars of the various [|academic] disciplines, [|medicine], [|journalism] , the [|law] , [|government] , [|business] , and [|industry]. Some style guides focus on [|graphic design], covering such topics as [|typography] and white space. [|Web site] style guides focus on a publication's visual and technical aspects, prose style, best usage, grammar, punctuation, spelling, and fairness. The strict implementation of style guide regulations provides __uniformity in style and formatting of a document__. **
 * 1) Introduce students to the rules for writing on wikis. [|//Wikipedia//], for example, does not allow for reporting original research. Instead Wikipedia seeks the goals of traditional encyclopedias, to present known knowledge.
 * 2) Develop a system for recording the efforts and accomplishments of individuals. (You can accomplish this by having students sign the pages they author or contribute to.)
 * 3) Talk with students about the conventions they will establish for co-authoring texts. At Wikipedia, for example, the authors' names are not listed on the articles. Instead, users need to select history to see who wrote what.
 * 4) Almost every wiki has a StyleGuide<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">: a guide to the writing customs and the culture of the wiki. Have students collaboratively write a StyleGuide for their wiki. Ask students to play particular roles. One important role is the "Guard"--the person who watches the wiki pages and ensures that spam or bad edits are not entered, undermining the hard work of the wikiauthors.

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