TITLE PAGE SCRIPT Hi, everyone! Welcome to the Wikis’ world presented by Steve Adler, Cheryl Butler, Allen Day, and Hyewon Lee.

Using web 2.0 technologies like Wikis enables learning to be more participative and active. Have you ever heard of Wikis? If so, have you ever used Wikis for your courses? A Wiki is a free and easy-to use tool that can powerfully facilitate collaboration and communication. Because it's easy for people to jump in and revise pagestwikis are becoming known as the tool of choice for large, multiple-participant projects.

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WHAT IS WIKI? SCRIPT

Wikis effectively provide teachers with a 'web page' that can store files, course notes, movies etc to sup-port classroom learning. Wikis can increase the en-gagement of students, encourage collaboration, en-able students to build connections and stimulate and facilitate discussion. A wiki is also the perfect spaces for displaying assessment information, tasks and projects. Using Wikis, it is easier than ever to collect data from the information available in the world, conduct inter-active collaborative projects, and create rich teaching and learning resources using edit, copy and paste, and drag and drop. You do not need to download or install anything; all your work is stored in the “cloud” in your wiki spaces.

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I know that you are still tilting your head. In a very short time, you will get some ideas on how to use Wikis in your classrooms or cour-ses.

From now on, we are going to review how to use wiki step by step.

Let’s go!  

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WIKISPACES.COM SCRIPT

The Wikis can be found at http://www.wikispaces.com.

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TWO VERSIONS OF WIKIS SCRIPT There are two versions of Wikis:

Wikis for organizations and Wikis for individuals and groups.

The latter is free of charge and af-fordable space for those who want to use Wikis for interactive and collabo-rative learning. For this presentation, we chose the Wikis for individuals and groups.

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JOIN PAGE SCRIPT

You must join if you want to create your Wiki space. All you need to type is your username, e-mail, and pass-word.

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LOG-IN PAGE SCRIPT

You must log in if you want create con-tent. Use the login window to access your account.

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CREATING MY WIKI SCRIPT

After you have logged in, the login window shows that you can create a wiki space, asking its name, option of permission, and wiki type.

If you enter all the required informa-tion, click “create” button.

We entered wikisinclassrooms as name, gave permission to public, and chose “other” type.

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YOUR WIKI SCRIPT

Your Wiki will be created. This is the default page of your Wiki. You can create new pages as you wish.

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EDIT SCREEN SCRIPT

Clicking edit button on the top right side of the page, you will be taken to the edit screen.

From there, you can add your content to the Wiki.

You can type directly onto the page.

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TOOLBAR SCRIPT The buttons on the toolbar look much simpler, but

have similar functions to MS Word. Formatting your text is just like in MS Word. You can format your text, using bold, italics, un-

derline, color, and style functions. You can add hyperlink, insert files, pictures, and

table, and embed media. When you finish editing, you will need to click

save button. If you don’t want to change the content, click

cancel button. If you want to see the edited page before saving,

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CLOSER LOOK AT THE EDIT SCREEN SCRIPT

For example, if you want to format your text in any way, you will need to high-light the text to change and then use the buttons on the toolbar.

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ADDING HYPERLINK 1 SCRIPT

When you click on the link button, a window will pop up showing Wiki link.

You can type link text and page name from your Wiki.

When you select external link, you can add the designated web address to your Wiki.

You can add anchor name.

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ADDING HYPERLINK 2 SCRIPT

For example, let’s add external link, www.wikispaces.com to your Wiki.

Type wikispaces in link text and www.wikispaces.com in address. Then, click add link button.

You will see the link on the page.

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INSERTING FILES OR IMAGES 1 SCRIPT If you want to insert files or pictures, use

file button on the toolbar. Clicking the file button, a window will pop

up showing pictures and files already up-loaded to your Wiki. If you want to upload a new file or picture, use upload files button on the right side.

You can browse to locate a file or image on your computer and then click on upload button.

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INSERTING FILES OR IMAGES 2 SCRIPT When clicking the file, it will be inserted

to the page.

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INSERTING FILES OR IMAGES 2 SCRIPT You can upload files, images, or pic-

tures from external sources, using ex-ternal image button.

Type the external image address, and click load button.

If you double click the image, it will be easily inserted into your Wiki.

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INSERTING TABLES SCRIPT

Use table button if you want to insert a table.

Define the number of columns and rows.

Click on insert table button. The table will be inserted into the page. You can format the table in any way,

using style buttons.

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EMBEDDING MEDIA 1 SCRIPT

If you want a video, slideshow, podcast or any other widget on your page, click on widget button.

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EMBEDDING MEDIA 2 SCRIPT

For example, you want to embed a video clip named “pb wiki-What Is A Wiki?” from YouTube. Click on YouTube, go to www.youtube.com, and find a video clip.

You will need to look for embed field on the YouTube video page and copy and paste the html code in the box.

Click on save or preview if you want to review the page before publishing.

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EMBEDDING MEDIA 3 SCRIPT

When you save the edited Wiki page, you can watch the embedded video on your Wiki page.

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HISTORY OF WIKIS SCRIPT

The history of wikis dates from 1994, when Ward Cunningham invented the concept and gave it its name (he gave the name "WikiWikiWeb" to both the wiki, which ran on his company's website at c2.com, and the wiki software that powered it). c2.com thus became the first wiki, or a website with pages that can be edited via the browser, with a version history for each page. Before 1994, however, there were several historical an-tecedents to wikis, including Vannevar Bush's proposed "memex" system in 1945, the collaborative hypertext database ZOG in 1972, and the Apple hypertext system HyperCard in 1987; though the creation of true wikis only became possible with the development of the World Wide Web in the early 1990s.

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ADVANTAGES OF WIKIS SCRIPT The Wiki is good for writing down quick ideas or

longer ones, giving you more time for formal writ-ing and editing.

The Wiki is instantly collaborative without email-ing, keeping the group in synchronous communi-cation.

The Wiki is accessible from anywhere with the In-ternet connection.

The Wiki is your archive, because every revision is kept.

The Wiki is exciting, interactive, and immediate.

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DISADVANTAGES OF WIKIS SCRIPT

Several common problems have been identified for wikis, or sites which allow anyone to create or to edit content.

The addition of inapplicable content to a page by individuals in order to increase their websites' page ranking on search en-gines.

The deletion of text from a page that was entered by another contributor

Deliberately and maliciously deleting, adding and/or changing content on the page.

Some note that such bad behavior is not generally successful in active wikis. 

Content is often corrected fairly quickly using the revision his-tory view and the feature to revert content.

Some wikis provide the ability to ban by IP address someone from editing the wiki.

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EXAMPLE 1 SCRIPT

The best known example of wikis is Wikipedia.

It is a free encyclopedia, which every registered user can add, change, and delete information about the target item, place, thing or person.

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EXAMPLE 2 SCRIPT

Our group created a wiki for the group project. We have used the wiki space for gathering ideas, developing our thoughts, and editing and revising the content.

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WIKIS IN YOUR CLASSROOMS SCRIPT Students can collaborate to help reduce repeated

research on the same content. The overall scope of a student based project can

be expanded because of the easy sharing of knowledge.

Wikis can be used to detail decision making about a project.

Wikis can be used to communicate. Students can use a Wiki to consolidate reference

material.

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