WikiInEducation

How can, and do, we use wikis in education?

1. Three main tasks

Contrast wiki against classical Knowledge Management and Content Management Systems tools as "social systems" and make it "presentable at court."
Bring wiki out of "classroom thinking" - if you can sit together, wiki is just a (though interesting) game ... but in inter-class and inter-school and inter-teacher-cooperation it opens new worlds.
- Build an international platform to exchange experiences and sample applications about "wiki at school" world-wide.
- Set up a WikiFarm for schools to use plus a mailing list so that teachers can get quick help in wiki issues and so that they don't feel that they are "left alone." The ML could also run small "courses" on Wiki issues.
- Let teachers and students experiment with wikis thus letting them decide what to do with them.
- Look out for typical problems or questions rising in teaching and learning situations that might have wikis as a solution. (like collecting vocabulary for a book read at school, like creating a "net of stories" (cf. CarpeWiki:GeschichtenWald).

CommunityWiki:WikiSchool (bilingual en-fr),
CraoWiki:WikiSchool (fr),
[GründerWiki:WikiFür/Schulen] (german)
[BeatWiki:WikiInSchool] (german)
MeatballWiki (metawiki),
WikiPedia [1]
Wiki:WikiInEducation
http://carpe.com/wiki/wiki.pl?WikiSchule German, by OliverGassner
[Allied Schools Graz] - a wiki platform for 8 schools from 5 countries.
[Cyber Club Cote-du-Nord] - a wiki site used by Grade 4-6 children for collaborative storytelling.
Among the newer interesting systems is the wiki for the schools of the Swiss canton Glarus [2] done by the teacher Andres Streiff. The way he let his pupils write essays which are publicly discussed and evaluated by the teacher and the other pupils are a revelation. (WikiService)
UniversityWiki for some thoughts and examples
A [wiki] for a university class on writing in wikis and weblogs. (projet recherche wikiweblog avec retour d'expérience d'étudiants)
[Mise à jour]: The class is to become an annual offering at the University (Bemidji State, in Minnesota, USA).
[Working with Wiki: article by Andrew, Holley and Pheiffer]
[Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not] -- Educause Review - Sept 2004