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By Rabbi Tzvi Pittinsky Director of Educational Technology The Frisch School [email protected] http://techrav.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/techrav

Creating collaborative classroom learning environments using wikispaces

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Page 1: Creating collaborative classroom learning environments using wikispaces

By Rabbi Tzvi Pittinsky

Director of Educational Technology

The Frisch School

[email protected]

http://techrav.blogspot.com

http://twitter.com/techrav

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Wikis for Education

Advantages

• Easy to Use- WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get Text Editor)

• Multi-Platform: Windows and Mac

• Global Reach- Multilingual and available anywhere in the world.

• Encourages Collaboration

• Supports asynchronous online discussion forums

• Versatile and customizable

• Safety- Every version of every page is saved.

• Security- Comment moderation (after posting) and permissions

Disadvantages

• Discussions can only be moderated after posting.

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Classroom applications

Teacher Collaboration focusing on a Common Theme or Subject

School Partnering

Asynchronous Student Discussions

Student Projects

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Teacher Collaboration-Holocaust

Integration Day

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School Partnering- Amal, Nahariya

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Asynchronous Student Discussions-

Korach’s Common Sense Rebellion

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Asynchronous Discussion Forums:

What the research says…

Asynchronous online

discussions

Chance to reflect

Draw on prior knowledge

Less stressMore sensitive

topics

Higher order thinking skills

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Student Projects- Be the Prophet

Amos WebQuest

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Wikis Examples

The Frisch School Wiki-http://wiki.frisch.org Password protected.

http://frischgoesgreen.wikispaces.com/

http://students4israel.wikispaces.com/

http://shiriyah.wikispaces.com/

http://ifaces2011.wikispaces.com/

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Now let’s make a wiki of our own!

Go to http://www.wikispaces.com/ to start

creating your first wiki. Then follow me…

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Works Cited

Blankenship, W. (2009). Making connections: Using online discussion forums to engage students in historical inquiry. Social Education, 73(3), 127-130.

Merryfield, M. M. (2001). The paradoxes of teaching a multicultural education course. Journal of Teacher Education, 52(4), 283-299.

Pena-Schaff, J. B., & Nichols, C. (2004). Analyzing student interactions and meaning construction in computer bulletin boards. Computers & Education, 42(3), 243-265.

Warschauer, M. Comparing face-to-face and electronic discussion in the second language classroom. CALICO Journal v13 n2-3 p7-26 Win-Spr 1995-96.

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By Rabbi Tzvi Pittinsky

Director of Educational Technology

The Frisch School

[email protected]

http://techrav.blogspot.com

http://twitter.com/techrav