Description

This handbook describes ways of using modern network services, in particular WikiWiki. WikiWiki is full of topics, programmes and articles which give us a new insight and help
to instil tolerance, balanced judgement and environmental awareness. Various uses of WikiWiki in teaching are considered, the rules of editing and creating Wiki-documents are described, together with examples of typical mistakes. Supplementary add-ons are presented which allow you to calculate, create graphs, and fill the hypertext vacuum with graphics and audio material. The practical guidance given is based on material created by an educational network community of schoolchildren, students, school teachers and teachers of higher education institutes. In 2006 this community has been working
on a hypertext-rich encyclopaedia of Russian towns and cities. This hypertext encyclopaedia, Letopisi.ru is being created uder the sponsorship of the Intel corporation and the joint-stock company “TransTeleKom”. Their task is to give schoolchildren, students and teachers an opportunity to work (and play) collectively and to experiment with new social services. Letopisi is a teaching project, within the framework of which teachers, students and schoolchildren learn not only how to use new technology but also different ways of working. Above all we are playing a game of educational Wikipedia and are learning to create a collective hypertext which the collective authors collate and use to describe the historical events in Russian cities, towns, villages and settlements during 2006. We are counting on the active support of all those who think seriously about the role of science and education in the modern world, or who are engaged in the development of research activity for pupils across the curriculum. The author of this handbook, Yevgeniy Dmitriyevich Patarakin, is an expert in setting up collaborative net-based educational groups, and the author of the monograph “Network communities and education". In 2006 he defended his doctoral dissertation "Exploiting creative and educational opportunities offered by IT to net-based groups". The handbook is intended for those who work in educational establishments and for all those who want to use technology to help us think and work together.