Integrating Wikis into Your Classroom

Topic: Integrating Wikis in your Classroom
Date (Offered two different times): Tuesday, September 29 at 3:30pm AND Wednesday, September 30 at 4:00 pm
Presenter: Joselyn Todd, Instructional Technology Outreach Director, Cary Academy

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21st Century Literacy

Teachers and Students as:

Content Developers
Collaborators
Critics and Reviewers
Synthesizers
Global Contributors

Wikis can act as a tool for all of the above!

Platforms

Online (in the cloud): PBWorks, Wetpaint, Wikispaces

Things to look for:

1. Free to educators/good support
2. Ability to set multiple permission levels
3. Wiki should be advertisement free for educators
4. Rich feature set including discussion forums (S or AS), RSS, ability to embed Web 2.0 tools/products

Compare Wikis

http://www.wikimatrix.org/