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WIKIS for KnowledgeEvent: WIKIS for Knowledge
Date: 4/6/2006
Time: 12:00 PM
Duration: 1 hr. 30 min.
Session Evaluation
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=860911779393
“wiki” - the Hawaiian word for “quick”
Wiki - distributed knowledge-building model
Anyone and everyone gets to decide what will be said (content), how it will be said (organization), and whether it will be said (dissemination).
- distributed authorship
- open editing
- public as publisher
emphasis on contributing, participating through writing and editting
Wikipedia
http://www.wikipedia.org/
an online encyclopedia with articles written and edited by site visitors. This four-year-old experiment in creating an open-source reference "book" houses more than 1.5 million articles (about 700,000 in English) and is growing daily. Wikipedia receives 60 million visitors a day
"Although Wikipedia's success has been tarnished a little by vandalism, some misinformation, and fights over certain controversial topics, the wiki concept — an open site maintained by its users — has been a hit." from Think Outside the Blog by Tim Stahmer
introduction - background
social software - opportunites to connect with others, develop personal and meaningful relationships
Wenger's communities of practice - social software allows us "congregate in virtual spaces and develop shared ways of pursuing common interests" (Wenger, 1998)
includes - email, blogs, wikis
Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm04/erm0452.asp
In 1999, the World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee looked back on the previous decade and lamented: "I wanted the Web to be what I call an interactive space where everybody can edit. And I started saying ‘interactive,’ and then I read in the media that the Web was great because it was ‘interactive,’ meaning you could click. This was not what I meant by interactivity."
wikis - one-to-many/many-to-many; online database; quick; open editing
blogs - similar but different
- easy authoring / publishing
- chronological organization
- write once
- usually single author - comments by others
teaching and learning
- simple web page publishing
- non-linear page site development - stubs, hyperlinks
- personal writing
- collaborative writing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_writing
- brain storming
- self-directed learning
- research
- community building
- distance learning
participation
Wikis require trust: trust the people, trust the process and enable trust-building
- SoftSecurity
- a home that leaves its front door unlocked but doesn’t get robbed because the neighbors are all out on their front steps gossiping, keeping a friendly eye on the street, and never missing a thing.
- hard security - password protection, private spaces, IP banning
who, what, where, when...
Authors - Who will work on the wiki?
- Single: one person will edit the whole wiki
- Group: a community of peers who sort of know one another will edit the wiki
- Mass: a group of people who may or may not know one another will edit the wiki
Timeframe for participation - How long will the author work on the wiki?
- Terminal: there is an end date at which the author will stop working on the wiki
- Sequential: there is an end date, but another author or authors may pick up the project and continue to work on it
- Ongoing: work on the wiki will continue as long as the wiki exists
Activity - What kind of work will be done on the wiki?
- Organize/Classify: add and cross-reference categories or items
- Define: add new items or provide/expand definitions for existing items
- Write: draft, edit or annotate a text
- Simulate: model systems with options and consequences
evaluation - assessing student use of wikis in course activities
http://ideant.typepad.com/ideant/2006/01/wiki_evaluation.html
GENERAL
QUANTITATIVE
- Volume:
- how many pages were created?
- how many edits were made?
- how was the creation of pages and edits distributed throughout the semester (number of new pages and edits created per week)?
- Page Activity:
- which pages were edited the most?
- which pages were edited the least?
- what was the average number of times a page was edited?
- Collaboration Index:
- what was the average number of users that edited a page?
- which pages were edited by the most/least number of users?
- Participation Index:
- how many edits and new pages are attributable to n segment of the class?
- Additional questions (Likert-scale questions):
- I have used wikis before.
- I feel I was an active contributor to the wiki.
- I feel that all members of the class contributed to the wiki proportionately.
QUALITATIVE
- what pages or sections of the wiki did you find most valuable? why?
- what pages or sections of the wiki did you find least valuable? why?
- what obstacles did you encounter during your participation in this wiki? were those obstacles overcome?
- do you feel the wiki contributed to the learning experience? how so?
Wikis may work best for...
http://www.profetic.org:16080/dossiers/article.php3?id_article=973
- knowledge building “over time” (through versions and groups)
- progressive problem-solving (particularly open-ended problems, and even problem redefinition. For example, Wikis could work well for COP (communities of practice) whose goal is to develop solutions to common problems over time in order to improve practice
- explaining increasingly diverse and contrary ideas, as well as examining the relatedness of ideas from diverse contexts
- combining, synthesizing and evaluating definitions and terminology across disciplines
- questioning underlying causes and principles
- critically reading, and responding in a constructive and public way, to others’ work
- learning how to add both nuance and complexity to concepts in a given field, through systematic engagement and analysis with work produced by more advanced students, specialists and experts
- learning to observe deeply, stereotype less, and avoid premature judgment
getting work done
- organized by context, by links in and links out, and by whatever categories or concepts emerge in the authoring process
- constantly "under construction"
- deliberate gaps or stubs, ideas, reminders to fill in
- easy to learn - 1 page introduction via email
- meetings - agenda - draft, participant additions, meeting notes, follow-up
- website design - organization, content depth evolves
- documents - manuals, books - outline, collaborative writing and editting, revision tracking
- curriculum design and development - content experts rather than technologists drive the process
- conferences - planning, recording, reference
- lists - references, brainstorming
- informal bulletin board
- research notes, reflection
- brain dump - miscellaneous thoughts, links
how to...
How can I make a new page?
If you want to make a new page, you link to it. Wikis are unusual in that instead of giving an error when you click on a "broken" link, wikis let you define the page. So on your FrontPage (or any other page in your wiki), you can either type "See my [news] page" or "see my RecentNews". Both methods work - the first requires you to put brackets around the link you're making and the second requires you to use CamelCase.
from PBwiki - hosts wikis - free
http://pbwiki.com/wiki.php
a wiki of your own...
ComputersAndSociety
CIS2 Computers and Society http://faculty.deanza.edu/taylorvalerie/cis2syllabus.html
Wikia Scratchpad Wiki Lab ComputersAndSociety http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/ComputersAndSociety
more examples
learn more...
other wiki / knowledge links
- Wiki Wiki Teaching- The art of using wiki pages to teach http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2005/12/wiki-wiki-teaching-art-of-using-wiki.html
- http://westwood.wikispaces.com/
- Using Wikis to Empower Student Learning -- a wiki presentation by Elizabeth Elzer, Steven A. Greenlaw, and Dean Shaffer, Department of Economics, University of Mary Washington. observations http://www.jerryslezak.net/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Liz+and+Dean%27s+reactions
- Resources for Teaching and Learning via Technology - terrific list of technologies including several of the following wiki links
http://onewisdom.pbwiki.com/ReSources
- Think outside the blog... build yourself a wiki for collaborative group assignments. Article in Tech Learning by Tim Stahmer - requires registration but it is free - need to login, then search
http://www.techlearning.com/index.jhtml
- Erick Schonfeld - The Next Net 25 - CNN http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/23/smbusiness/business2_nextnet_intro/index.htm
"The Next Net is deeply collaborative: People from across the planet can work together on the same task, and products or tools can be rapidly tweaked and improved by the collective wisdom of the entire online world. The new era is also creating a realm of endless mix and match: Anyone with a browser can access vast stores of information, mash it up, and serve it in new ways, to a few people or a few hundred million."
Stephen Downes: What this article misses, though, is that the Next Net (as CNN calls Web 2.0) won't be driven so much by these companies as it will by open content, open access, and open source.
- Blogs and learning communities - Tom Wright - February 28, 2006
http://kairosnews.org/node/4618
talking about blogs but this could also apply to wikis in education
... one of their goals is to get students to see writing as an activity that makes and shares meaning, not as something done to get a grade. ... provide an environment in which students can focus on conveying a message to an audience, which can then respond naturally. ... they're likely to develop the same feeling of community
- Tim Berners-Lee, talk at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) 35th anniversary celebrations, Cambridge, Mass., April 14, 1999, http://www.w3.org/1999/04/13-tbl.html
- Elements of Wiki Essence, WikiWikiWeb, http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ElementsOfWikiEssence
- Taking a Walk on the Wiki Side, Syllabus Magazine, April 1, 2004, http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=9200
- intro - wikipedia - tour, highlights, discussion points
- activity 1 - poll / survey
- collaborative group activities
using
considering
need more information
no idea
- wikipedia
use it as class resources
use it occasionally for personal research
looked at some entries once
seen the name but don't really know anything about it
never heard of it
- course web site
integrated into course activities
use extensively to communicate with students and publish information
provide course handouts and other static information
will setup when I have time
don't know enough about creating web pages to do this
- main - wikis - what they are, examples, application in teaching and learning, learning communities, social software, guide on the side, active learning, internet/web support
- activity 2 - audience - examples of public or student wikis, use in courses, work in samples
- wrap-up - summary of learning communities and how wikis can be used to promote student learning through content creation, community participation
- questions & discussion
- Session Evaluation
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=860911779393
questions - frequently asked and others
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