A brief description of wikis and how students can yous them for collective learning. A revision of an earlier ppt.

1. Wiki-wiki
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Where YOU
(and me and him and that other person, too)
are Author and Editor!
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2. Wiki: an expandable set of
webpages written and
edited by everyone!
A Wiki There’s
Don’t forget
about wikitravel
good ol’ Wikipedia
Star Trek
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3. Can I believe a Wiki?
You decide
Use at least one other source (print source,
newpaper or magazine article, a primary
source—all available in the library) to double
check your facts
YOU HAVE the POWER
To change elements of any info on a public wiki
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4. You
Why use Wikis?
Teacher Her
Info
Them
Info Him
We vs. Me You
Together we can:
Me Student
• Build more content
• Share information
• Check one another’s work
• Add information as it occurs
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5. What will we use a wiki for?
• We’re going to make Country guides
• Sharing (in spanish, of course) Familia
• General food information Días de
Hechos
fiesta
• Traditional dishes
• Holiday information El
• Tourist information Las
recetas
país Turismo
• Other interesting facts & tidbits
• Images Los La
fotos comida
• This wiki will help you with your oral exam
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6. What does our Wiki look like?
• Wiki Options: Edit, Discussion,
History, Notify Me
• Use this area to create new pages
or see changes
• You can embed images, widgets,
video & more!
• Pages in the Wiki are listed here
• Green arrows lead to pages off
the Wiki
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7. Don’t forget!
• Good Wikis include citations
– Even for images
• Authorship noted on History
tab verifies participation
• This page will be public
– spelling, grammar, etc. count!
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8. Are you ready?
Then
– Share thoughts and ideas
– Make mistakes and fix others’
– Contribute to at least 3 elements (100-150 words
written in Spanish of course)
To know more!
To be more!
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9. Still want more?
Visit
How to edit
Wikipedia Wiki editing
a Wikipedia
video tutorial cheat sheet
page
Ask questions
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10. Slideshow created by
K. Covintree
Fall 2008
Revised Dec 2010
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