Using+Wikis+to+Create+Curriculum

Dennis Frye, Coordinator of Library Media Services - Roanoke City Schools Jamey McKenna - Coordinator of Instructional Technology Resource Teachers - Roanoke City Schools
 * Wanted Media Specialists and ITRTs to have a place to interact over lessons that respond to the VDOE Technology Plan
 * (Check out a product called "Keynote," which is the presentation software they used)
 * 31 Media Specialists and 12 ITRTs in their division
 * Their effort is to align the 21st Century Skills with core curriculum so that the technology is not an overlay to the existing curriculum, but informs and supports the delivery of core curriculum, AND to make this a living document that does not become a printed volume that is static.
 * (Check out Writely.com - an online word processor) - This was not the solution that they needed, particularly because they had to invite other people, individually, to "join" their document.
 * They then checked out a curriculum mapping software tool, but it was too expensive.
 * Viawiki, Obwiki,Wikispaces, tikiwiki
 * [|http://infolit.viawiki.com] - their wiki, which we may view and, with permission following an email to them, use and modify
 * They chose viawiki because they felt it had the most word processor features.
 * Their plans this year is to experiment- try out different formats and allow multiple formats. Next year they will begin refining.