Blog called: Wikis in Plain English

I found this site to be very informative. I learned a lot about wikis from the bolg and the cute video that I'm going to try to post below.

Mary Tidrick - Wiki

A wiki site that I liked was called Pbwiki.com. It is advertises that it is as easy as making a peanut butter sandwich to make a wiki. Actually, it was pretty easy. However, I think some of the features are confusing. If you want more features, you can pay a monthly fee for different levels.
I made a wiki to use with my lesson plan " A Wiki Story". I plan to try it with my students. The wiki is called mrstwiki and below is the web address:

Mrs. T Wiki

The address for A Wiki Story is:

A Wiki Story


I also made a wiki with Wikispaces for my Study Group. I wanted to see which one I thought would be easier to use with students and adults. It was very easy to use also. It was a little hard to get the writing in the format I wanted. I am going to share this wiki with my Study Group and see if we can put information on it to share with our faculty. I did not have to come up with a log-on or password. It will be interesting to see if my follow teachers want to use it.

Study Group 2 Wiki

Study Group 2

After reading our assignments, I feel I have a much better understanding of a wiki. I had heard about them about 3 years ago at a technology conference. I was not sure I like the fact that everyone could edit the page. I feel more comfortable with that concept today. I think wiki have a lot to offer education in the future.
Wiki seem to be free at the moment. However, blogs began that way and now their is a monthly cost depending on what feature you want.

Mary

Mary Tidrick - Lesson Plan

My Lesson Plan

My lesson plan on WikiTeach is called A Wiki Story. Here is the link for the lesson plan:


A Wiki Story Lesson Plan


Mary

WikEd Wiki

What a find! WikEd discusses topics in the realms of curriculum, technology, and education reform. This wiki has information that would be helpful to teachers of all experience levels. I stumbled across it when I was looking for educational wikis. The article that caught my eye was on Wiki in a K-12 Classroom. Many topics we have discussed or will discuss in this class are mentioned on this site. Educators coming together to improve their instruction is a powerful tool. There are tons of links that could have you surfing forever into the depths of any topic.

Medieval Wiki Posting

One of my passions is medieval history so I was really excited to find this wiki. The down side is that its hosted by a gaming site called Shadowed Realm. Other than that its kind of nice to have a place to post facts and read and/or correct what others are posting on a subject near and dear to my heart.

I also discovered that I have to use Internet Explorer to edit or post and I cannot use my Mozilla to do so. That's a bummer.

Wiki's for Businesses

I ran accross this site which is commercial in nature. It allow businesses to create "secure" wikis. I checked out some of background info provided and it appears that some businesses are creating wikis to cut down on the amount of email and for project teams to collaborate on projects.

It's interesting that they feel they have to go to commercial sites since there are free wikis that offer password protection? Perhaps the security is marginal on the free sites.

Peanut Butter Wiki

While checking out my Google hits for "wiki" I kept coming back to one labelled pbwiki which allows anyone to create a free wiki, easily. There is a link for educators which offers safeguards that are important for any classroom-based wiki, such as the option to make the site public or private, to lock pages and to control the access to pages. The design and layout are clean and easy to read. The examples on the education home page include an elementary classroom, and a freshman english course at Penn State. This eliminated much of the intimidation I've felt when thinking about creating a wiki.

Karen

topic 3: Tagging Lesson

As an educational Interpreter, I do not create lesson plans per se. I did however work with a small group of students to establish del.icio.us accounts. This is a summary of what I did.
I set up an account at wikiteach.org but for some reason it would not let me login. I asked for confirmation of my password. wikiteach changed it and sent me a new one. Still I could not log in to create my lesson; therefore, I signed the end of my lesson. smile.
Caryl
Lesson
http://www.wikiteach.org/index.php/Wikiteach/WikiteachWriteMgr/action/add/

Wiki for WordPress

I've recently published a blog site using shareware called WordPress. The good news: It's a PHP system that's growing in popularity everyday. The bad news: it's hard to find reliable technical support for it if you run into a problem. At least that is what I believed before this lesson got me searching for a wiki. If you'd like to see how I'm using Wordpress Click Here. Let me know if you see any problems. Please mention your browser and computer platform too. Thanks - dj

Favorite Wikis

After “googling” wikis I understand he concept of groupware. The idea that wikis are designed to collect facts for the good of all sounds very interesting. Most of the wiki sites I visited were so specialized that only the most knowledgeable could contribute. Many of the sites were on Linux and other computer platforms. I found two sites that were interesting to me and could be useful in my classes.
Spanish Tour
This site is a travel guide. I do not like tours and this provides more individual experiences and informs the reader of a variety of activities and locations that are off the beaten path. A seasoned traveler could add unique and interesting insites and possibilities.
Spanish Lesson
This site offers suggestions in teaching Spanish with different methods and ideas much like TPRS. I find it very useful for the introduction of vocabulary and the variety of activities.

Topic 3 - Social Computing - ubuntu wiki

ubuntu is one of the many versions of open source linux. Their tag line is, "Linux for human beings." They also have edubuntu, "Linux for young human beings". The ubuntu people are using a wiki for their product documentation. That means anyone with something to say can edit the documentation. Very clever.