Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Wiki Advice

Hello,

I teach English at the high school, and I would like to start a Wiki for one of my classes when they begin a new novel.

For those of you who have tried Wikis in the classroom, do you have a successful rubric to share for class discussion/participation? I've spoken to some teachers who have used Wikis in class and they said students often post for the mere sake of posting, but don't often have insightful things to say.

Any advice?
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  1. Dennis RichardsOctober 8, 2009 at 6:21 AM

    Hi Lori:

    I have four suggestions to get you started on finding or creating a rubric:

    1) RubiStar is a site for teacher rubrics. When I searched for "wiki" it pulled up 369 items. http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php

    2) Kathy Schrock has an assessment / rubric page. http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/assess.html

    3) Robert Marzano did some teaching at the Adams 12 Five Star Schools, and they posted two video clips of him talking about rubrics. Very useful commentary. http://www.adams12.org/tlc

    4) At the bottom of the i3cs21 Wikispaces tool page, you will find a list of characteristics of "an effective wiki" that I found on a wiki Vicki Davis used with her students in Georgia. She is the "Flat Classroom Project" teacher developer/advocate. (Search for flat classroom project on Google if you want to learn more.)

    I suspect as you think about setting a high standard for the quality of your students' contributions to the wiki, the characteristics Vicki mentions could help you create the dimensions for a useful rubric. https://innovation3.wikispaces.com/Wikispaces

    Dennis

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  2. Ms. LehrOctober 8, 2009 at 12:32 PM

    I am so glad that someone asked this question and thank you Dennis for these additional sites. I set up a Wiki last spring and no one was really using them in my building and I was unsure of how to "grade" this experience as well.

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  3. dkinneyOctober 14, 2009 at 9:51 PM

    Right at this moment I don't have time to look at these sites, but they sound very useful and I will try to visit them later. I wonder if it would be helpful to visit a couple of them together in class, as a way to think as a group about how we want to be using class wiki?

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