Wikis in the Classroom

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Wikis in the Classroom

• Pat Sine, Office of Educational Technology
• College of Human Services, Educaiton and Public
  Policy

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What I teach

• EDUC 639 K-12 Technology Integration
• UAPP 667 IT Topics for Non-profit and Government
  Managers
• UAPP 667 Planning IT-enhanced Projects in the
  Public Nonprofit Sectors

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Underlying course ideas

• Use technology to
• do what you are currently doing more efficiently
• do what you are currently doing differently
• offer something new

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Whats a wiki?

• Wiki ? Wikipedia

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Whats a wiki?

• Wiki-wiki is the Hawaiian word for quick
• Simplest online database (wiki.org)
• A collaborative website whose content can be
  edited by anyone who has access to it (The
  American Heritage Dictionary of the English
  Language, Fourth Edition)

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Why I wanted to use a wiki

• Students would be creating order from the jumble
  of concepts that they were sifting through
• Students learn about collaborative
  sense-making
• Students experience a technology they probably
  hadnt encountered before

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Take a look at the progress

• EDUC 639 K-12 Technology Integration
• UAPP 667 Planning IT-enhanced Projects in the
  Public Nonprofit Sectors
• UAPP 667 IT Topics for Non-profit and Government
  Managers

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Contact info

• Pat Sine
• www.udel.edu/sine
• sine_at_udel.edu