Wikis: Overview and Resources

WIKI DEFINITIONS

WhatWikiIs

Wikipedia's Definition

Will Richardson's Definition, Uses, Strategies and Examples

 

 HELPFUL RESOURCES AND READINGS

EDUCAUSE article, "Wiki-based Collaborative Learning"  by Dr. Irfan Naufal Umar

 

PLATFORMS, TOOLS, WIDGETS

Yackpack  a widget for talk (IM) on wikis

 

WIKI EXAMPLES

Using Wikis in Education Site 

 

Primary and Secondary School Uses

An 8th Grade English Classroom Using WIkis

High School Online Collaborative Writing Wiki

 Middle School Wiki for Class Studying Societies

 Grade Nine English Class Wiki in Canada

High School Track and Field Wiki 

International Teen Life Wiki, A Collaboration between Schools

 Vicki Davis's Wiki for Her Students and Westwood High School

Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay's Flat Classroom Project  A collaboration between high school classrooms in Georgia and Banglade

 High School Library Booklists Wiki  Booklists for high school students

 High-School English Teacher Bud Hunt's Wiki

 

 

General Examples

Unesco's Wiki on Open Education Resources

Wikieducator: "free eLearning content that anyone can edit and use"

 

Higher Ed Examples

List of Examples of Wikis in Higher Ed

 The Science of Spectroscopy Wiki (used by several universities in collaboration)

 Bowdoin College (USA) Wiki for English Class:  Romantic Audience Project

 Stanford University Campus Wiki

 LanguageLab Unleashed Wiki for Language Educators

University of British Columbia's Langugae Arts Wiki

 Student Using A Wiki for his thesis

Wiki Book Created by an Undergraduate Class

 and the professors' presentation on the experience

 Undergraduate Computer Science Majors and a Spatial-based Wiki

UBC Course Producing Content for WIkipedia

 

Wikis Outside of Schools that could serve as Inspiration

 Davis, California Commnnnity Wiki

Full Circle Associates Online Facilitation Wiki (lots of excellent resources here)