This Wiki is a place for Inverness Primary teachers to share information & professional development products for creative instruction. This wiki is maintained by the students and staff of IPS and serves as a literary, multi-media, and technological learning commons for students, staff, and community of IPS. Background:
This site is an example of a "wiki." Invented by Ward Cunningham , wikis are a read/write web technology that allow for easy, fast, and collaborative websites to be built without the need for special software or a lot of training.
A good example of a wiki that many people are familiar with is Wikipedia. A wiki can allow anyone to edit any page that they want. While it might seem that allowing many people the ability to work on, modify, or overwrite each other's work would result in chaos, it typically results in participants writing in a thoughtful, non-partisan fashion so that others will feel comfortable with the content.
Who uses Wikis?
Wikis are used in the “real world” (outside of K-12 schools) by people collaborating on projects or trying to share things online, such as family information and photos, technical information from users of a product, data from a research and development project, wine expertise, travel journals from abroad, club or specialty information, or projects like collaborative cookbooks.
Sometimes they are used for free expression, such as a youth group online graffiti space. College and university courses seem to be using wikis far more than the K-12 community right now. In K-12 education, wikis are being used by educators to conduct or follow-up after professional development workshops or as a communication tool with parents. The greatest potential, however, lies in student participation in the ongoing creation and evolution of the wiki.
What is the difference between a wiki and a blog?
A blog, or web log, shares writing and multimedia content in the form of “posts” (starting point entries) and “comments” (responses to the posts). While commenting, and even posting, are open to the members of the blog or the general public, no one is able to change a comment or post made by another. The usual format is post-comment-comment-comment, and so on. For this reason, blogs are often the vehicle of choice to express individual opinions.
A wiki has a far more open structure and allows others to change what one person has written. This openness may trump individual opinion with group consensus.
Wiki ideas for younger students (elementary): A must visitsite for Wiki ideas .
An annotated virtual library: listings and commentary on independent reading students have done throughout the year
Collaborative book reviews or author studies.
An elementary class “encyclopedia” on a special topic, such as explorers or state history – to be continued and added to each year!
A virtual tour of your school as you study “our community” in elementary grade.
A travelogue from a field trip or NON- field trip that the class would have liked to take as A culmination of a unit of study: Our (non) trip to the Capital and what we (wish) we saw.
Detailed and illustrated descriptions of scientific or governmental processes: how a bill becomes a law, how mountains form, etc.
A wiki “fan club” for your favorite author(s).
Family Traditionwiki- elementary students share their family’s ways of preparing Thanksgiving dinner or celebrating birthdays (anonymously, of course) and compare them to practices in other cultures they read and learn about.
A Where is Wanda wiki: a wiki version of the ever-favorite Flat Stanley project. Have each Wanda host post on the wiki, including the picture they take with Wanda during her visit. Even better: keep an ongoing Google Earth placemarker file to add geographic visuals to Wanda’s wonderful wanderings as a link in the wiki. WOW! Where in the world IS Wiki Wanda?
21st Century Literacies In Intelligence Reframed Howard Gardner contends that "literacies, skills, and disciplines ought to be pursued as tools that allow us to enhance our understanding of important questions, topics, and themes."
This Wiki is a place for Inverness Primary teachers to share information & professional development products for creative instruction. This wiki is maintained by the students and staff of IPS and serves as a literary, multi-media, and technological learning commons for students, staff, and community of IPS.
Background:
This site is an example of a "wiki." Invented by Ward Cunningham , wikis are a read/write web technology that allow for easy, fast, and collaborative websites to be built without the need for special software or a lot of training.
A good example of a wiki that many people are familiar with is Wikipedia. A wiki can allow anyone to edit any page that they want. While it might seem that allowing many people the ability to work on, modify, or overwrite each other's work would result in chaos, it typically results in participants writing in a thoughtful, non-partisan fashion so that others will feel comfortable with the content.
Who uses Wikis?
Wikis are used in the “real world” (outside of K-12 schools) by people collaborating on projects or trying to share things online, such as family information and photos, technical information from users of a product, data from a research and development project, wine expertise, travel journals from abroad, club or specialty information, or projects like collaborative cookbooks.
Sometimes they are used for free expression, such as a youth group online graffiti space. College and university courses seem to be using wikis far more than the K-12 community right now. In K-12 education, wikis are being used by educators to conduct or follow-up after professional development workshops or as a communication tool with parents. The greatest potential, however, lies in student participation in the ongoing creation and evolution of the wiki.
What is the difference between a wiki and a blog?
A blog, or web log, shares writing and multimedia content in the form of “posts” (starting point entries) and “comments” (responses to the posts). While commenting, and even posting, are open to the members of the blog or the general public, no one is able to change a comment or post made by another. The usual format is post-comment-comment-comment, and so on. For this reason, blogs are often the vehicle of choice to express individual opinions.
A wiki has a far more open structure and allows others to change what one person has written. This openness may trump individual opinion with group consensus.
Wiki ideas for younger students (elementary): A must visit site for Wiki ideas .
21st Century Literacies In Intelligence Reframed Howard Gardner contends that "literacies, skills, and disciplines ought to be pursued as tools that allow us to enhance our understanding of important questions, topics, and themes."