Episode+2+Educational+Uses+and+Examples

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Videos
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 * [|Youtube: The Flat Classroom Project]: Meet the teachers and some of the students behind this wonderfully creative example of how wikis can promote collaboration that bridges physical and sociological limitations.

Website Links

 * Note:** All of the links below are resources that Vicki Davis mentioned during the interview.
 * The Flat Classroom Project
 * The Horizon Projectdel.icio.us Tagging Protocol for the Horizon Project
 * [|Beth Ritter Guth's Second Life Blog]
 * [|Technospud Projects]
 * [|The Oreo Project]
 * Salute to Seuss[|Second Life]
 * [|Ning]
 * [|Skype]
 * [|Airset]
 * [|Elluminate]
 * [|Google Talk]
 * [|Google Docs]
 * [|Twitter]
 * [|GAETC Workshop Description]; [|Workshop signup for GAETC worksop]

=Podcast Script=
 * Trinity Podcast:** Educational Uses and Examples of Wikis

Welcome. My name is Willy Kjellstrom, and I work at an elementary school in Atlanta, GA. Before I begin, I would like to say that the entire script for this podcast can be found at my wiki called Technology in Education. You can access this wiki by typing in tie.wikispaces.com without a www. There you will also find links mentioned in this podcast.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then educational examples of wikis have to be worth at least 1001 words. Now, I am not sure whether or not this is true or not, but I do know from my work with teachers that innovative examples are almost a necessity. The notion that wikis allow other people to change content is scary, especially for people like teachers who value control. Plus, wikis and other new web 2.0 tools are often a foreign concept that provide no hook to "hang a hat on."

So, what are some educational uses and examples of educational wikis?

One of the most intriguing wiki projects to arise out of education is called The Flat Classroom Project.


 * 1) Vicki, first of all, thanks for taking the time to talk with me about your two wiki projects- The Flat Classroom Project and the Horizon Project. As a fellow teacher, I know that you are quite busy. (answer) To start, could you describe the projects?
 * 2) Who were the participants apart from the students and teachers? From what I have read, it wasn't just students and teachers.
 * 3) What did you hope students would learn from their work in these projects? What were their actual takeaways?
 * 4) I know that there was a lot of legwork that went on "behind the scenes" in order to make both projects a reality. Tell me what you and your co-teachers had to do to get these project going.
 * 5) What were some of the hurdles that either you, as the teachers, or the students had to overcome?
 * 6) What other avenues or ideas are worth exploring using web 2.0 technologies like wikis?