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Student Created Content

welkerjason — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:37:47 CDT

What makes a wiki special, and so much greater than a traditional website, is that students have the power and ability to create the content that makes up the bulk of your site. Through the "Easy Edit" feature, anyone (it's up to you whether contributors have to be registered users or not) can contribute to the content of your site.

For example:

Students can work collaboratively on an online study guide.
- Examples: AP Economics students wrote and edited the following pages
- All of the content on the above pages was added and edited by students, EXCEPT the graphs:
  - Graphs or other images drawn on a SMARTBOARD in class can be saved as JPEG files and uploaded by the teacher to wiki pages!

Students can connect the content being learned to what's going on in the news.
- Example: Once per unit, students are required to post a link to an article from the news relating to the topics covered that unit
  - "AP Econ in the News"

Students can extend in-class debates and discussion in an online forum.
- Example: In AP Economics, students are encouraged to debate the philosophical and idealogical sides of the field of economics online. They do this in each unit's "Student Thought Forum"
  - "Student Thought Forum: Basic Economic Concepts"

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Welcome to Learning the Wiki Way

welkerjason — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:43:03 CDT

by Jason Welker - Shanghai American School
This workshop will demonstrate techniques for using a wiki as a more dynamic and interactive alternative to a class website, a substitute for pen and paper homework assignments, a forum for communication about class related topics, a way to hold online exam review sessions, and a comprehensive, collaborative, student created course study guide.

Attendees will be shown several examples of uses for a class Wiki, and introduced to the multiple "widgets" that can be added to make the wiki experience more engaging, entertaining and interesting for students.

This workshop is not a "how to create a wiki" presentation. Any wiki provider you choose will have detailed tutorials to guide you in the basic process of creating a wiki.

In this presentation, you will learn several ways a wiki can be used to enhance learning in your class. These include:

In addition, you will learn ways to:

Finally, you'll have the chance to practice entering and editing text, images, videos, sound, etc. on this very wiki!

Learning the WIki Way - Workshop Evaluation

Welker's Wikis: The following wikis are ones I use with my students, and will be referre to throughout this presentation.

Welker's Wikinomics - for my AP Economics students
History Happening - for my grade 9 Asian History students
Sichuan Cycling Adventure - for students going on the SAS China Alive cycling trip in Sichuan Province
SAS Global Issues Group - for students involved with a service club I supervise

Articles I've written about using a Wiki in my Economics course:

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Online Exam Review - Student/Teacher Chat

welkerjason — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:37:44 CDT

The wiki world offers so many tools for collaboration and communication using chat. During the days leading up to tests, I find students online each evening, eager to chat online with me about the course content, and adding a chat screen right into the Wiki page made this possible.

I have since added a permanent "Test Review Center" to the homepage at Welker's Wikinomics. Students know that the night before a unit test, they can find me online ready to answer their questions as they study!

Wetpaint allows users to include a chat screen on the wiki where anyone on a certain page can chat in real time with anyone else on the page. Here's what I mean:

Try chatting with people in the room right now.
Try changing your chat name to your real name.
How could you use such a feature on your class wiki to enhance student learning?
How could students use such a feature to enhance their own understanding of concepts?

Do students actually use the wiki for test review? Let the numbers answer this one. Below is a Sitemeter (free with a Wetpaint wiki) bar graph showing the number of page views at Welker's Wikinomics during the month of October. Guess which two days the tests were on... If you guessed October 26th and the 29th, you're right! How'd you know?

Here's an article I wrote for UTechTips (an Ed Tech blog) about my experience with online exam review last May

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Learning the Wiki Way - Workshop Evaluation

welkerjason — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:41:44 CST

Here's your chance to practice some basic wiki editing functions. Click "Easy Edit" above, and begin typing. You'll see a basic word processing type formatting menue, including a widget button that gives you all the options for embedding video, music, pictures, polls and so on into the wiki page. Feel free to mess around on this page as much as you want.

Thanks for attending my workshop, please feel free to contact me with any further questions you may have! - Jason Welker: jason.welker@saschina.org

Workshop Evaluation - Enter your comments in the space below:

Grading the Wiki

welkerjason — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:41:02 CST

Whether or not a collaborative assignment such as a wiki should be graded is debatable. I have decided to include the Wiki (and the accompanying blog) into my course grade. Below is the method I have devised. Students seem to like having the wiki count as part of their grade, as was evident in their course evaluations last semester.

Below, you can see how the Wiki is included into my students' grades.

The Wiki and the Blog as part of your grade in AP Economics

20% of your grade in AP Economics is based on your contributions to both the Wiki and the Blog.
During each unit, you must:

contribute to at least THREE pages in that unit's Wiki and,
post comments to at least THREE articles on the blog relating to the topics covered in that unit.

Additionally, you must contribute to two specific pages in each unit's wiki:

"AP Econ in the News" and,
"Student Thought Forum"

Your Blog/Wiki grade for each Unit will be determined based on the following:

Contributed to at least three pages from the the current Unit's Wiki- 3 points
Commented on at least three blog articles relating to the current unit - 3 points
Posted an article link to the current unit's "AP Econ in the News" page - 2 points
Posted at least one thought or idea to the current unit's "Student Thought Forum" - 2 points

Total Wiki/Blog grade for each unit - 10 points

How do I know if students actually contribute to three wiki pages and comment on three blog posts? At the end of each unit every student will submit a "Unit Blog Log" in which they fill out the following table:

Directions: For each Unit, identify the specific articles you commented on, the specific Wiki pages you posted to, and indicated whether or not you posted to the two pages, “AP Econ in the News” and “Student Thought Forum”.

The SAS Academic Honesty Code applies to this portion of your AP course. Any student found to be dishonest will be given a zero for the unit’s grade.

2points is awarded based on the overall completion of the unit’s Wiki (see below for details). Mr. Welker and Ms. Close will judge the overall quality and completion of the Wiki and a common score will be awarded to all AP students in this category. Print this out, fill it in, and turn it in with your test and homework.

Unit I: Basic Economic Concepts
Blog Comments
3 articles
3 points
Wiki Contributions
3 pages
3 points
AP Econ in the News
2 points Student Thought Forum
2 points

Yes Yes

No No

Individual Grade: /10

Group completion grade: /2

Total grade: /12

Group Completion grade:

0 – Wiki is incomplete and lacks accuracy
1 – Wiki is either incomplete or lacks accuracy
2 – Wiki is complete and accurate

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Make the Wiki FUN!

welkerjason — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:35:44 CST

Keep the kids coming back to your class wiki by keeping it fresh. Every now and then find a funny video that relates to your content area, load it onto your homepage, and tell the kids that if they want to see it they've got to log on from home! My students love this and always joke about the videos in class whenever I post a new one!

Here's a few of the videos I've found that help lighten up the "dismal science":

>>CLICK HERE: Grading the Wiki>>

Course Evaluations

welkerjason — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:34:10 CST

At the end of the semester, let your students evaluate your course online. Students can contribute to the wiki anonymously, which means they can speak the truth in their evaluations. Try including poll questions to get data about the effectiveness of certain aspects of your instruction.

Examples: Here's the course evaluations I had my AP students complete last year. The first page has survey questions, the second page is for anonymous comments and suggestions.

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Resource Sharing

welkerjason — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:20:31 CST

Use your wiki to connect your students to other resources available online through a resource page. Allow students to add links to resources they find useful too!

Example: "Resource Page for Economics Students and Teachers"

Resource ideas:

Compile a list of websites related to your content area. This could include:

Online encyclopedias,
AP or IB course home pages,
Web-based tutoring sites,
Subject specific glossaries,
National or international organizations related to subject area,
Online textbooks,
Your textbook publisher's Web Resources page,
Wikipedia pages relating to your subject

RSS feeds for blog published by influential people in your subject area.

Often, textbook authors and university professors will maintain blogs, which students can benefit from reading.
Authors, journalists, politicians, scientists, economists: these are the leaders in our fields of study, and many of them keep blogs that are free and updated daily. Put the feeds to these blogs on a page where your students can, if they choose, read about how their class relates to the real world.

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Information Dissemination

welkerjason — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:19:51 CST

Wikis are a great way to share important information about your course with your students.

For example:

Important course information: CLICK HERE to see
A course syllabus:CLICK HERE to see
Unit overviews with links to online resources from the text: CLICK HERE to see
Detailed unit plans with links to pages that students can contribute to: CLICK HERE to see

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Polling Students

welkerjason — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 03:10:37 CDT

Polls are a great way to assess students understanding of or opinions on a variety of topics relating to your course. Surveys can be created and inserted as a widget in your Wetpaint Wiki. CLICK HERE to see an example of polls I used in AP Economics. (scroll to the bottom of the page)

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