Research and information on wiki best practices

1. 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

2.  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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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
Reinventing Writing
By Vicki Davis
May 2014

6. 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)

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

8. 3 R’s of Global Collaboration
•Receive
•Read
•Respond
P 128-130

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