I had actually never added anything to Wikipedia let alone create an article on Wikipedia I was surprised to discover that my school did not have an article on Wikipedia as well. I actually found the entire process for creating an article on Wikipedia to be very complicated and not user friendly. I really found myself asking why anyone would want to do this at all. Never the less I created an article space for my school.
I have been using wiki spaces for a while in my professional life. I have a site for my science classes where I post additional study resources and videos for my classes. I have another site that I use when I am presenting at other districts. I just used this site last week when I was presenting at professional development in another district. I also created a wiki space for another presentation I did last week at the Iowa Technology in Education Conference. My students all know about the wiki space. If someone attended one of my presentations last week they were using the wiki space during the presentation. I have never actually had students contribute to a wiki space for a class assignment but will be in just a couple weeks. When we begin our cell unit I will have a new wiki space on the cell and as a review of the parts of the cell students will be required to add something to the wiki space about each major cell part.
I also had a chance to contribute to the Idea Exchange wiki space. I added the idea of using Educreations an app for the iPad. Edureations allows the user to create video lessons using their iPad or the internet. It is great for teachers to create video lessons for a flipped classroom or students to create videos and teach their fellow classmates concepts. The app uses an interactive whiteboard to record your voice and and handwriting. Students can replay the lessons on any browser or on the iPad. Lessons can be embedded into blogs and websites.
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