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Our exploration of using wikis in the classroom will begin by viewing the video Goomoodleikiog. This video explains how wikis and other Web 2.0 tools can make learning more engaging for students and how they can help teachers become more efficient. ====== === Think about how you currently manage collaborative projects with your students and how you might utilize Web 2.0 tools to enhance collaboration, productivity, and feedback. What strategies can you use to tackle issues of technology access--both at school and at home--to help students make the most of these collaborative technologies? ===

**Explore Other Classroom Wikis**
Explore the [|Wiki in a K-12 classroom]  wiki for ideas about using wikis to engage students or help them collaborate on group projects. You can also search for wikis on [|wiki.com]  to find wikis that are relevant to your curriculum. If you find one that pertains to a unit of study that your students are doing, consider having your students contribute to the wiki by sharing what they learn. To get started, explore these examples of how wikis are currently being used for educational purposes. Miss. Baker’s Biology Class Wiki Flat Classroom Project 2008 Periodic Table Wiki [|Kidpedia] The best way to understand how a wiki can be used as a collaborative tool is to try using one. In preparation for this activity, I have created a wiki; you have been enrolled you as a contributor so that you can add content and edit your peers’ work. The purpose of this wiki is to share information about online resources that you use (or plan to use, if you have recently found them) in your classroom. While this type of information could be shared over email or in the discussion board, a wiki makes more sense because information from multiple people can be displayed simultaneously and the content can be edited in the future. In this way, a wiki acts as a collaborative, shared document that lives online. To complete this activity: > [] (Added by Rob) > This is EdWeek’s Technology Page. I think it is a good roundup of technology news, but I never have time to visit the site itself—so I am going to start subscribing to it via RSS. Check the wiki throughout this session to see what resources and websites your colleagues have added. Since wikis are collaborative, anyone who has access to the wiki can edit other contributors’ work; this means that you can add new pages, edit what other people have written, and reorganize content as you feel appropriate. **Discussion** Think about the assignments your students currently hand in for you to grade. Choose one of these assignments and share how you might use a wiki for students to submit, review, and discuss content collaboratively. What value, if any, is there in having students collaborate on a wiki as opposed to submitting a project for your review?
 * Use a Wiki**
 * Login to the wiki.
 * Your wiki will have three loose categories: Blogs/Microblogs, Web 2.0 Tools, and PLN. Pick at least two educational resources or websites that you would like to share with your colleagues (preferably ones that have not been explored in-depth in this workshop) and add them to the wiki.
 * Add your name and a brief annotation, such as the following: