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Tom Daccord: Wikis for Collaborative Learning
Tom Daccord - [] tom@edtechteacher.org twitter: @thomasdaccord

pkworks.com wetpaint.com - great for younger students

You can invite members You can send in a spreadsheet of names People can ask to join

Empower the students by giving students the power to create the content

We are in a decline of print base text - linear text still important - conventional literacy You need to be able to communicate through multiple modalities

Decline of newspapers - texting, online research,

Within 3 years the video resume will be required

Technology will create the most jobs in the next 15 years

Multi Model communication - our disciplines are being

http://reidenglish.wikispaces.com/ - great examples of students creating content, videos, powerpoint jeopardy, audio maps

upload audio mp3 files - compressed audioi files

or embed - odio has audio you can embed

links audio polls charts maps - a big sandbox - covers all learning styles

wiki is a valuable learning tools

http://greatdebate2008.wikispaces.com

You don't have to master the technology.. Have the kids learn it and teach others.

[] - Calculus website - students created - students have the manual for next year's class - also on [|www.slideshare.net] -

It's about helping other students - a different problem for each year - based on the problem from the year before

[|www.jing.com] mathtrain.tv - making videos on how to solve problems - the power of teaching others

Contnet creation

How can we use technology to serve others - how can we help other people - it has to be good - no texting, no lols - publishing to the world

Build a community of interdependency.

My Webspiration - online Inspiration and embed on the webpage

You can always tell who worked on the page and at one time