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=Welcome to Wikis: Learning and Collaborating in a Virtual Space=

Hands-On Demo (Introductory) Learning Spaces
===Wikis are one of the most powerful and accessible web 2.0 tools. They easily provide a quick web presence for any educator without any skills, knowledge, or experience in web design. The product can be a powerfully interactive tool for online collaboration and publishing. Wikis may be edited by one person, a controlled group of people, such as a class, or open to the worldwide community. It still provides for the ability to recover historical versions and monitor individual edits by users in case of inappropriate use. In this session we will discover how wikis can help enhance participants’ teaching skills. By exposing students to new technologies, like wikis, they will update the way they participate with one another, how student and instructor created materials can be shared to improve the learning experience. During the session participants will create or modify at least one wiki, experiment with embedding Web 2.0 tools, graphics, videos, podcast, and other technologies into a wiki. They will collaborate in small groups to design a mini lesson on a wiki. Participants will integrate multiple resources accessed from the Web that will allow them to enhance the mini lesson. The use of wikis will provide accessibility to extend authentic learning and enhance collaboration both within the classroom and beyond. Participants will see how wikis can be used by instructors, students, parents and peers as a tool for communication and collaboration. Participants will log onto the wiki session page and be introduced to the material, then be advised by the facilitator in the creation and monitoring of their own wiki.===

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