Creating Wikis for Elementary School Teachers.

Stage 1 – Desired Results

Content Standard(s): NETS for Teachers 2008 found at
http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/ForTeachers/2008Standards/NETS_for_Teachers_2008.ht
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1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity

Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to
facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both
face-to-face and virtual environments. Teachers:

a. promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness.

c. promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students’
conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes.

d. model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students,

colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments.

2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments

Teachers design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning experiences and assessment
incorporating contemporary tools and resources to maximize content learning in context
and to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in the NETS•S. Teachers:

a. design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and
resources to promote students learning and creativity.

b. develop technology-enriched learning environments that enable all students to pursue

their individual curiosities and become active participants in setting their own educational
goals, managing their own learning, and assessing their own progress.

c. customize and personalize learning activities to address students' diverse learning

styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources.

3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning

Teachers exhibit knowledge, skills, and work processes representative of an innovative

professional in a global and digital society. Teachers:

demonstrate fluency in technology systems and the transfer of current knowledge to new
a.
technologies and situations.
b collaborate with students, peers, parents, and community members using digital tools
. and resources to support student success and innovation.
 communicate relevant information and ideas effectively to students, parents, and peers
c.
using a variety of digital-age media and formats.
d model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate,
. analyze, evaluate, and use information resources to support research and learning.
Understanding (s)/goals Essential Question(s):
Participants will understand:
 that wiki creation an important technology that Overarching Questions:
can be used to enhance the learning for students. 1. How can we use technology to better engage
 that wikis can be multi-media that has a students?
symbiotic relationship that enhances multiple
content areas. 2. How have students’ learning needs and styles
 that all grade levels can use wikis to enhance changed over the past decade?
learning.
3. How would a classroom with more modern
Related Misconceptions technology look and sound?
 Wikis are one dimensional.
 Wikis serve no pedagogical purpose. Topical Questions:
 Wikis are used only for written work. 1. How can educators using wikis to add interest
and awareness for elementary school
 Wikis are too technical for younger children.
students?
 Wikis are too difficult for non-technical users.
2. How can educators using wikis to share
projects with parents, grandparents, and other
students in elementary school?

3. How can educators use wikis to create a

student portfolio?

Participant objectives (outcomes):

Participants will be able to:
 create a wiki.
 add various content to wikis such as pictures, sound, and text.
 identify uses for multimedia wikis.
Stage 2 – Assessment Evidence
Performance Task(s): Other Evidence:
 Participants will create a wiki and upload a  Participants will complete a paper survey
minimum of 2 different multimedia files. These about the class. The questions include
can include text, pictures, sound, or any other instructor evaluation as well as course
media. Participants must complete this task evaluation.
within two weeks.
Stage 3 – Learning Plan
Learning Activities:
 Introduce presenters and generate interest in the idea of wikis by showing some elementary school
wikis.
 Explain and illustrate tools and their locations that presenters and audience will/can use during
presentation.
 Describe and list focus question and objectives for presentation.
 Question prior experience with wikis in the classroom
 Describe and list purposes for wikis in the classroom.
 Suggest precautions prior to implementation of classroom blogging.
 Collaborate on methods of wikis throughout all grade levels as well as multimedia uses.
 Display examples of wikis previously produced.
 Explain the performance task.
 Distribute survey. Allow time for the participants to fill them out and collect them.
 Conclude with thanks to the participants and positive remarks on wikis.

Template from: http://www.grantwiggins.org/documents/UbDQuikvue1005.pdf