WIKI in Education

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The topic of the today's post is WIKI in Education.

WIKI EXPERIENCE

• TEFLPedia — A great example of a professional teachers’ community that comes together by means of a wiki site.

It helps teachers to organize their lessons:

• Student Wiki Guide is ready-to-use student manual for Wikispaces.• Using Wikispaces At UMB (presentation)could be used as an introductory presentation of Wikispaces. More in-depth instruction and clear structure will help your students quickly get used to the new platform.

MULTIMEDIA WEB TOOLS

• Photofunia  → helps you easily manipulate photos to create beautiful collages, photo effects, stylizations and even short animations.

Great for preparing presentation materials.

• Bubbl.us is a free online brainstorming platform that allows embedding mind map widgets into your wiki site. Can be used as a presentation tool when explaining complex interconnected ideas and issues. 

•  ← Infogram is an interactive infographics builder, allowing you to easily visualize your data with interactive widgets.

• Online HTML Editor is a great tool to create more complex HTML pages than the ones available in the wiki editor. Please note that not all wiki platforms fully support HTML markup. Many of them have their own legacy wiki markup, which is mostly incompatible with HTML. Consult with your wiki platform for details or do a small test run before investing your time into building pages with this fantastic editor.

• Pixlr  → is the best online photo and image editing software out there. As powerful as Photoshop, it is free to use and extremely user-friendly. With most of its power concentrated in the remote server, it can suit all of your image editing needs for education, while being free and accessible to all students and teachers. Use it edit images for your wiki pages.

• Animoto  ← helps you create stunning video presentations that feature your photos, vides and text. 

Great for collages, project presentations and photo reports. 

• Haiku Deck  → is an iOS app that lest you create stunning presentations with powerful imagery and decent typography.

• Timetoast is an online timeline designer. Use it to create historical timelines for your class. Let your students design their own timelines for their projects.

• Pixton  ← is an online comic generator. Easily add sets, characters and words, and lay them out in an appealing comic strip. Perfect for visual storytelling.

For the next see my previous posts:

• Google docs offer a good way to remotely edit your documents before publishing them to a wiki site. With powerful collaboration tools, you could co-create your content with your colleagues. However, these tools can only be used as a supporting technology due to lack of any version control. You can also embed certain parts of your Google documents on a wiki site.

• Youtube and Youtube Editor together make a perfect couple of tools that fulfill all your video storage and editing needs for educational and personal use. Upload your videos to Youtube and edit them online in its own built-in editor for free, with no extra software required. 

• Prezi offers a new take on online presentations and keynotes. In a few easy steps, you build stunning dynamic presentations that catch your students’ eye and let you communicate complex ideas easily. Prezi’s effortless embedding lets you easily place your presentations into your wiki sites.

More:

• Richard Doyle, English Fifteen in 15 Weeks! is a fascinating ESP wiki-based project held at Penn State. • Gabrilovich, Evgeniy and Shaul Markovitch. 2006. Overcoming the Brittleness Bottleneck Using Wikipedia: Enhancing Text Categorization with Encyclopedic Knowledge. A fascinating insight into using Wikipedia in education the way it was supposed to be used.• Wikiversity, a Wikipedia-Like Learning Community is an example of a vivid and vibrant learning community operating with the help of wiki technology. • Briann Laugher, Teaching Responsible Use of Wikipedia is an inspiring and very instructive presentation on the ethics of wiki collaboration and the exact mechanisms of improving the wiki knowledge.• Henry Jenkins, Wikis in Professional Learning can be interesting for its cases in industrial use of wikis. Contains testimonials from industry professionals regarding the use of wikis in occupational and corporate training.• Vicky Davis, Wonderful world of Wikis — Vicky Davis offers a wide selection of beautiful wiki examples in education.