This will share best practices in using wikis and relate to Common Core standards as teachers learn essential skills. Note that some of this session is an online demo, but bullet points of what is shared is included in the presentation.

1. Wonderful World of Wiki Teaching
Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher
http://www.flatclassroomproject.org
We’ll use wikispaces
in our demo

2. John Seely Brown,Visiting Scholar, University of
Southern California
“…you can’t just drop new
innovations into a classroom
and hope that the instructor
will invent effective ways to
use them.To fully utilize a
new teaching technology, you
often need to invent new
teaching practices as well.”
Flat Classroom Conference 2011
Beijing, China
“Web 2 Kung Fu” speedsharing invented

3.  Fosters community (Elbow 373)
 Helps see problems from multiple viewpoints (Howard 10)
 Co-authoring impacts the writing of individual authors (Aghbar)
 Improves Learning Experiences (wolf 2010)
 “Ideal model for constructing, reorganizing and acquiring new
information” (Janssen et all 2010)
 Global collaboration is essential in today’s workplace (Friedman)
 Shorten time required to solve pressing world problems (Tapscott)
Benefits of Collaborative Writing
Hong Kong 2011
Students edit wiki with virtual partners

4. WHAT IS COLLABORATIVE WRITING?
WHAT IS “THE CLOUD?”
The process of writing, editing, and producing with a group of people.

5. WHAT IS COLLABORATIVE WRITING?
WHAT IS “THE CLOUD?”
The process of writing, editing, and producing with a group of people.

6. The Collaborative Writing Cloud 9
Wikis
Collaborative
Writing Apps
Blogs
Social
Bookmarking
Graphic
Organizers
Collaborative
Notebooks
ePaper
Cartooning
Cloud
Syncing

7. •Can each student have a
distinct username?
•Does the website track
profile data on the students?
•Can you set it up without an
email address?
User Setup
•Can you easily set up a lot of
users?
•Can you duplicate pages or
websites easily?
Scalability
•How easy is it to monitor?
•How much control can you
have over editing,
commenting, and viewing?
Management
•Does the site allow
embedding?
•What are the capabilities of
simultaneous editing?
•Can the document be edited
on multiple platforms?
Interactive
features
•Does the site have good help
files?
•Does the site have an active
community of educators that
is well supported by the
company?
•What if you are mandated
the tools you can use?
Community
•How secure is data shared on
the platform?
•How private is data shared
on the platform?
•What are the intellectual
property rights associated
with what you share on the
platform?
Privacy, Security,
and Intellectual
Property Rights
Questions to ask about Technology Tools
Reality Check

8. Plan & Set
Up
Research &
Draft
Edit &
Revise
Celebrate
&
Conclude
Purpose, standards, timeframe,
production & distribution
method, 20 questions, set up
What is happening
W.x.7, W.x.8, W.x.9 standards
Construct PLN, Partner,
Handshake, Organizing,
Prewriting, Drafting
Leave a personal, classroom,
and school legacy &
determine next practices
Discuss, give feedback,
Engage, troubleshoot, cite,
revise

9. Community of Practice
• “communities of practice are formed by
people who engage in a process of collective
learning in a shared domain of human
endeavor.” (Lave and Wegner)

10. Revision
Discussions &
Feedback
Monitoring &
Engagement
Troubleshooting
Citation and
Permission
Edit and Revise
W.x.4 Production and
distribution
W.x.5 Develop and
strengthen writing
W.x.6 Use technology
W.x.7 Conduct research
projects
W.x.8 Gather relevant
information
W.x.9 Draw evidence

11. Common Core Writing Standards
Summarized
Text types and
purposes
• W.x.1 Write arguments
• W.x.2 Write informative/ explanatory texts.
• W.x.3 Write narratives
Production and
Distribution of
Writing
• W.x.4 Production and distribution
• W.x.5 Develop and strengthen writing
• W.x.6 Use technology
Research to
build and
present
knowledge
• W.x.7 Conduct research projects
• W.x.8 Gather relevant information
• W.x.9 Draw evidence
Range of Writing
• W.x.10 Write over varied time frames for a variety
of tasks, purposes and audiences
http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards/english-language-arts-standards

12. Wiki Google Docs Blogs
Can each student have a distinct
username?
Yes, if set up
properly.
Yes.
Mandatory.
Typically but there are exceptions.
Does the website track profile data on
the student?
Depends on
the website
Yes. Typically but there are exceptions.
Can you set up without an email
address?
Yes, on some
sites.
No. No but there are exceptions.
Can you easily set up a lot of users? Depends. Not typically. Depends.
Can you duplicate pages or websites
easily?
Yes. Yes. Typically.
Are changes tracked and viewable? Yes. Yes, but
sometimes
cumbersome.
No, blogger must use strike
throughs and disclose edits on her
own volition.
How much control can you have over
editing, commenting, and viewing?
Control by
individual
page.
Control for
each
document.
One level of control for the whole
site in most cases.
Reality Check

13. Wiki Google Docs Blogs
Does the site allow embedding? Yes. Only pictures. Yes, in most cases>
Is simultaneous editing possible. Still glitchy. Yes. N/a
Can the document be edited on
multiple platforms.
Yes, using web
browser, no
apps.
Yes, using
browser and
some apps.
Yes, depending on the blogging
platform some apps are available.
Can you message users privately? Yes. Via email Maybe.
Community of practice Depends on
website
Somewhat Depends on website
Can you compare revisions. Yes. Yes.
Cumbersome
sometimes.
No.
Are you able to discuss content on a
page?
Yes, via
discussion
tabs.
Yes via Instant
messaging and
comments.
Depends on the blog.
Intellectual Property rights, privacy,
security.
Most let you
select a
copyright.
Check other
points.
Google TOS See TOS and check other points.
Reality Check

14. Wiki Permission Planning Template
Flat Classroom® Project
Task Non Members Members Administrators
Discussions
Editing (the default)
Editing Exceptions
Calendar /
Instructions
Home Page
Viewing
Viewing Exceptions
Teacher
meetings

15. The embed
button
You boost pre-writing
capabilities if you select a site that allows
embedding

16. Plan & Set
Up
Research &
Draft
Edit &
Revise
Celebrate
&
Conclude
Purpose, standards, timeframe,
production & distribution
method, 20 questions, set up
What is happening
W.x.7, W.x.8, W.x.9 standards
Construct PLN, Partner,
Handshake, Organizing,
Prewriting, Drafting
Leave a personal, classroom,
and school legacy &
determine next practices
Discuss, give feedback,
Engage, troubleshoot, cite,
revise

17. Look for scalability

18. Templates will save you time

19. Harness the power of peers

20. Keep what works
Improve what doesn’t.
Remember!

21. @coolcatteacher
Vicki Davis
Go ahead, Make My Wiki!
1. Survey Audience
2. Features for Managing
Wikis
• Quick Teacher Basics:
Creating an account and
a wiki, our K-12 upgrade,
creating student
accounts, privacy, locking
pages, contacting us for
help
• Advanced Permissions
• Strategies for Setting Up
Large Numbers of Users
• A Quick Look at Some
Advanced Features.
Templates, Backlinks,
Wanted Pages, Member
Statistics, Includes,
Schedule Events,
Templates, Comments,
Google Apps Integration
• Widgets
• Projects and Pre-
assigning teams (new
feature)

22. Go ahead Make My Wiki!
• Sign up at www.wikispaces.com
• Make a “space”
– You will be working on your own wiki during this
session.

23. Dr. Justin Reich @bjfr
• “Only 11% of wikis have any form of student
collaboration and only 2-3% of wikis could be
called ‘highly collaborative.’”
• “Giving students access to collaborative
platoforms doesn’t mean they will
collaborate.”
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/edtechresearcher

24. Types of writing via Dr. Justin Reich
1. Concatenation
– discrete content
– Students don’t touch each other’s work
2. Copy Editing
– Edit grammar, punctuation, syntax or spelling
3. Co construction
– Substantively edit text of another student
through addition, deletion replacement
As quoted in
Chapter 1: Collaborative Writing in the Cloud
By Vicki Davis @eyeoneducation
Winter 2013

25. Types of writing via Dr. Justin Reich
4. Commenting
– Conversational move
– Doesn’t contribute to wiki content
5. Discussion
– Comment back and forth on a topic with at least
four conversational turns.
As quoted in
Chapter 1: Collaborative Writing in the Cloud
By Vicki Davis @eyeoneducation
Winter 2013

26. @coolcatteacher
Vicki Davis
Wikis in the Classroom
II. Pedagogical Uses of
Large-Scale Wikis in the
Classroom with Examples-
Vicki Davis -15 minutes
* A note about the discussion
tab
* Starting and ending class
A. Elementary Wiki Samples
(including a week in the life
project with 1,000+
elementary students using a
wiki simultaneously.)
B. Middle School Wiki
Samples (including Digiteen)
C. High School Wiki Samples
- (NetgenEd, Flat Classroom)
III. Becoming Scalable
A. Assignments & Templates
B. Tags
C. Wiki Collaboration & What
to do about Wiki Wars - What
it means to collaborate - right
and wrong way to
collaborate.
D. Building a CMP
(Classroom Monitoring
Portal)
E. Handling private issues
G. Project Groups
Collaborative Writing in
the Cloud bit.ly/LZEdQ6
todaysmeet.com/wikiiste

27. “We can’t have a world class education without
the world.” @coolcatteacher
Flat Classroom Conference
Bejing, China 2011

28. Discussion Tab
Why is the discussion tab so important to
have effective collaboration on the wiki?
http://tinyurl.com/iste2012wiki

29. 3 R’s of Global Collaboration
•Receive
•Read
•Respond
P 128-130

30. Communications in the 21st
Century p 64-67

31. Klossner’s (2010) 90-9-1 principle
Step 4: Contribute &
Collaborate
Klossner’s
doesn’t cut it
in the
classroom!
P 128

32. READ AND RESPOND
(FIRST 5)
1. Review PLN – Respond to Meaningful discussions, wall
posts, or “cries for help”
• If using igoogle just check there – if not then:
• Ning
• Wiki Discussion Tab
2. Do this EVERY DAY!!
3. Your engagement level determines the engagement level
of others.

33. READ, RESEARCH &
WRITE (MOST OF TIME)
• Research
• Google News Search http://news.google.com (get RSS)
• Diigo Group (standard tags)
• Newsmap (google it!)
• Teacher information

34. READ
Read what others have written and see are there any:
•Errors (Fix it.)
•Repetition (consolidate.)
•Missing Links (Add them.)
•Copyright issues
• Let them know.
• Reword
• Cite Sources
TAKE OWNERSHIP – this is OURS not yours, not theirs, not
mine or yours but OURS!

35. READ
What is missing? (Add it)
What is confusing? (Make it simple.)
Is it summarized at the top?
Does the summary at the top reflect what you’ve put
in there?
Included in the current news?

36. WRITE: HYPERLINK
In context. CONTEXTUAL
Emphasize IMPORTANT words.
Eliminate DISTRACTING hyperlinks.
Proper Nouns (first time they occur in a SECTION.)
Concise.
Cite Sources if you quote directly AND hyperlink.

37. WRITE: EDIT
Less is more.
If you see it fix it.
Put things where they belong.
Look at the big picture

38. RECAP AND WRITE
(LAST 5 MINUTES)
Recap what you did – Wiki discussion tab. Ask questions.
A good recap includes:
•What you did today.
•Other things you think need to be done.
•Where you plan to pick up next time.
•Issues you think there are with the wiki.
•Let others know if you will be offline for a while or are done.

39. Flat Classroom® Project
Digiteen™ Project
‘A Week in the Life…’ Project Gr3-5
NetGenEd™ Project
Eracism™ Project
Incubator Program
K-2 Project Building Bridges to Tomorrow
@flatclassroom
@digiteen
@netgened
@eracismproject
@flatclassroom
@flatclasskids
P10-11*
P11-12
P13-14
P12-13
P13
NEW!
NEW!
@flatclassroom
*See the frameworks for each model on referenced page numbers.
Vicki Davis
@coolcatteacher