why wait start using wikis & blogs now!
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Christchurch New Zealand October 2009
Integrating new technologies to empower learning and transform leadership
Why Wait?
Start Using Wikis and Blogs Now!
Kelly Faulkner
Napier Boys’ High School
@kiwispouse
What is a Wiki?
●A webpage with an Edit button
●Easy to use
●Perfect for collaborative
learning
Why Bring It To The
Classroom?
●Great motivator for students
●Easy to monitor
●Allows for creativity and innovation
●Encourages participation of all students
●Promotes communication between students,
teachers, and parents
●A new, interesting way to learn
How Can I Use it in a
Classroom?
●Simple websites
●Peer-reviewed projects
●Group projects
●Manage school and classroom documents
●Classroom discussion and debate
●Teacher collaboration
●Post classroom assignments
●Collaborate with an international classroom
Why would I want one?
●Show images to prompt writing or
discussion
●To supply resources & activities
●make a glossary
●For collaborative essays
●To publish marking rubrics – have them
mark their own work or others
●Students can make their own quizzes &
rubrics and mark classmates’ work
All the pages to
our wiki
www.wikispaces.com
Important
note
You should see your name
here
Important
note!
Tags are search
terms.Secondary, English, extended-text,
etc.
Click on the subject, not the
author
Other great wikis:
●Cooltoolsforschools
●Secondarytools
●Gettingtrickywithwikis
●Learningweb2
http://learningweb2.wikispaces.com/Table+of+to
ols+for+blogs+or+wikis
www.wikieducator.org
Blogging (web log =
blog)What’s it good
for?●e-portfolios
●Reflection
●Communicatio
n
●Skills & ethics
●Responsibility
Some common sites
●Blogger
●Wordpress
●21classes
●Edublogs(.org)
●eduGlogster
What is a blog good
for?●Reflective practice
●e-portfolios
●Communication
●Teaching and learning
about:
odigital footprints
oonline ethics
www.diigo.com/kiwispouse/u_learn09-resources
http://core-ed.net/ulearn/upload-
material
Christchurch New Zealand October 2009
Integrating new technologies to empower learning and transform leadership
Thank you.
Now, Start Using Your
Wikis and Blogs!Kelly Faulkner
@kiwispouse