Building a Community of Professionals Using Wikis
John Johnson, Project Manager...more on that part later. 

  Social Studies & History Teacher

     jjohnso1.maisd@gmail.com (email and chat)

         @theduckchannel (twitter)

           231-767-7284 (old-fashioned talking calculator)


TAH Grants
- USDOED Program
- 3 year projects
- neighborhood of $130m/year nationwide
- Teacher PD focused
- "Traditional American History"
Themes that span all eras (and therefore all grade levels) of US History

2 counties/ISD's
24 public districts
9 charters
32 private schools

How do we leverage the depth & breadth of our knowledge base to enhance everyone's experience?
the rollout
A Ride in the wabac machine!
repository concept
you can't know what you don't know...
delusions of grandeur...
Start of school year
MACUL Presentation submitted 9/14/2009
philosophical question...
A wiki based PLC for sharing ideas about creating wiki based PLCs...???
Broad spectrum..
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.  -- Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, slashdot interview, 2004.
http://wikiplc-about-wikiplcs.wikispaces.com/
Fine print...truth in advertising
What it's not...
- all american success story
- your wiki in shining armor 
- what I thought it was going to be when I wrote the propsal
What it is...
- Case-study
- Discussion
- Honest
Who is this thing for?
tah.oaisd.org
The Distinguished Gentleman from West Virginia, Senator Robert C. Byrd
Participants can more or less come to as many, or as few events as they are able
What?
How?
Equal focus on content and pedagogy
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lumaxart/tags/

www.lumaxart.com/
These guys all came from here:
byrd.senate.gov/
ed.gov
wikipedia.org
wikispaces.com
earth.google.com
analytics.google.com
maisd.org
oaisd.org
gvsu.edu/history
si.edu
nche.net
http://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/~jma/thesis/online/node1.html
http://toonclub.blogspot.com/search?q=wabac
tap tap tap...
courtesy of yours truly
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RHIB-helicopter.jpg
Thanks for coming!  Here's where I got the stuff for this prezi