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EDC448: Literacy Practices for Content Subjects with Dr. Julie Coiro at the University of Rhode Island



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**But what is a wiki anyway??** Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit web page content using any web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and crosslinks between pages on the fly. Wiki, in the Hawaiian-language, means fast. The most commonly recognized and utilized wiki is wikipedia.org, a "multilingual, web-based, free content encyclopedia project. Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers from all around the world. The articles can be edited by anyone with access to the Internet, simply by clicking the "edit this page" link. (Source: Dr. Adamy, Using Wikis in the K-16 Classroom, RITER Project Technology Conference, September 2007)


 * [|Video Tutorial] of Wikis in Plain English
 * [|Three case studies] of teachers who tried wikis in their classroom
 * Arbor Heights Elementary School
 * Library Zone Idea Exchange from Kowloon Junior School in Hong Kong
 * [|WikiJunior] Full-Color Booklets
 * Read Write Think Lesson for High School Students: [|Using Wikis to Catalog Protest Songs]
 * [|Make Way for Wikis] (Eric Oatman, School Library Journal, 11/1/2005)
 * Wikipedia and [|Wikihow]
 * Another possibility: [|Google Docs] - see a [|video] of how it works


 * LInks to Other URI Professor's Wikispaces**
 * Jay Fogleman's Wikispace at URI
 * Diane Kern's Wikispace at URI