This work is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License Wikispaces for Teachers A Guide to Using Them in Your Classroom

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License Today’s Agenda ●Overview of wikis ●Examples of use in OCDSB ●Account information and accessibility ●How to… ●Create your own

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License What is a Wiki? ● A webpage with an Edit button ● Easy to use ● Perfect for collaborative learning ● There are different types of Wiki ● We have chosen Wikispaces for compatibility with IE6

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License Wikitrivia ●term coined by Ward Cunningham, programmer who wanted colleagues to communicate- called his site wikiwikiweb ●wiki means “quick-quick” in Hawaiian ●over teachers have applied for Teacher accounts with Wikispaces ●Wikispaces is offering more accounts ●more than 2.6 million articles in English on Wikipedia (started in 2002) ●684 million visitors in 2008 ●Wikipedia in more than 250 languages, 10 million articles ● updates in near real timehttp://

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License Wiki information ●An online writing space for you and others that you decide who to invite to your pages ●No experience necessary. Does not require knowledge of html ●You are up and running in minutes ●A multimedia storage space for videos, audio, pdf, docs, etc. ●Multitude of uses to meet your needs ●Easy to make and add pages ●An alternative to Desire2Learn LMS

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License Why Bring It To The Classroom? ●Posting homework ●Creating a forum for discussion with students ●Use as a writing tool for students ●Promotes communication between students, teachers, and parents ●Collaborative environment for student group projects ●Display student work exemplars

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License Our goal for today… Play with wikis Get comfortable with the software Understand permissions and privileges Answer any questions After a couple of weeks… Decide how you want to use it Design your site Invite collaboration/communication

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License Examples of wikis: Chris Kesner, Earl of March SS Student projects on banned books Grade 9 BTT, as an LMS Student projects on banned books Grade 9 BTT, as an LMS

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License Permission ●Wikispaces has different permissions settings for your space ●Public: Anyone can view or edit your Wikispace ●Protected: Anyone can view your space but only members can edit ●Private: Only members can view or edit your space

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License Getting a Teacher Account ●Called the PlusPlan for K to12 ●Go to to applyhttp:// ●Can take a few days to get a response

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License Creating Student Accounts ●For younger children, submit list of students, plus passwords to: ● ●For older students, let them sign up for themselves

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License Editing Your Wiki ●Click the Edit This Page button at the top of your wiki ●Write the text you would like on your page ●You can format it with bold, underline, italics, headings, and more ●Once you are done editing, click Save

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License Adding Links on Your Wiki ●Click Edit This Page ●Highlight the text you’d like to link & click on the earth icon in the toolbar ●Another window appears allowing you to create a link to another page in your space or another website (external) ●Click Ok

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License Adding Images to Your Wiki ●Click Edit This Page ●Click the icon that looks like a tree ●Browse your computer for the image you would like and click Open ●Upload the chosen picture or file ●Place your cursor where you would like the image on the page ●Double click the image or file to place it on the page

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License Adding Media to Your Wiki ●Click Edit This Page ●Go to the icon of the TV in the toolbar ●Choose the type of object (widget) that you’d like to embed ●Follow the instructions for embedding each object ●Click Save

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License Additional Resources for Teachers ●Check out our K-12 Educational Community at: ● ●Wikispaces information for teachers: ● ●Handout: Getting Started With Your Wikispace

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License Accessing OCDSB Wiki ●From Teacher Resources, click on OCDSB Wiki:

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License Time for an Activity

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License Let’s get started… ●Go to:

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License Go to: Create an account and a free K-12 space: ●Put in your username, password, address and space name. ● Certify that your space will be used exclusively for K-12 education and click “Join.” ● You will be brought to your new space.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License Activity ●Create a Wiki account ●Build a page, you can edit your wiki’s text, add links, and add an image or a video clip. ●View other workshop participants’ page ●Use discussion tab to add a comment