Teacher Librarian Professional Development Day November 2009

18/11/092 Overview 1.What is a Wiki? 2.In the classroom 3.How to create a Wiki? 4.Things to consider. 5.How to protect yourself? 6.Obstacles to expect 7.How to unblock with DET 8.Hands on – Create a wiki 9.Practical ideas for the classroom

18/11/093 What is a Wiki? A webpage that you can edit, is easy to use and is perfect for collaborative learning. Video Clip

18/11/094 In the classroom. Use Wiki’s as a tool to enhance learning. Don’t use in isolation. Make it relevant to what is being taught in class. They are a great motivator. Easy to monitor. Allows for creativity and innovation. Encourages participation. Promotes communication between students. A new, interesting way to learn.

18/11/095 How to create a Wiki Go to wikispaces.comwikispaces.com Create an account. Fill in details to get Started. -Username (letters and numbers no spaces). -Password - (use DET ) Sign Out Check to confirm

18/11/096 Cont Go back to wikispaces.com Sign in Click create wiki now Wiki name ( NO SPACES allowed – use hyphens characters long). Private Wiki type (Education) Create

18/11/097 Things to Consider Before you start your wiki with your class(es), make some basic decisions: How do you envision using the wiki? ( How will you explain it to parents and administration?) Who will be able to see the wiki? (members only?) Who will be able to edit the wiki? (members only?) Who will be able to join the wiki? (students only? parents? invited guests?) What parts of the wiki will you “protect” (lock from changes)? Who will moderate the wiki for appropriateness, etc? Who will have the ability to reset changes? Will you, as the teacher, be notified of all changes? Will the wiki have Individual or global memberships? (by individual students if you want an individual record of who made changes, or with one log-in per group or class?)

18/11/098 How to protect yourself Some examples of rules for a Wiki The Menai Primary School Wiki is a place for us to experiment and learn about technology. Here are a few rules that you need to follow so we can all feel safe and enjoy this space! 1.Only members of our class are allowed on this WIKI. When you write something on a page, sign off by writing your name after the fullstop. (Eg: Hi year 5/6! Miss Marshall) 2. I can see everything you write, and will be able to trace text etc. back to the individual user so please make sure that what you are adding or writing on our Wiki is appropriate!

18/11/099 Rules cont. 3. Be careful with your password. Do not tell it to anyone (parents and pets are ok). 4.If you write anything inappropriate or hurtful you will be blocked from the WIKI. 5.If you would like to add a movie from 'you tube' or any other site, please leave the web address on my 'Questions or Comments' page so I can approve it BEFORE it is added to the WIKI. 6.You can not break the WIKI so experiment with technology and have fun!!!!

18/11/0910 Cont -Check out other wikis for ideas. Notes %20Wiki%20Warranty.doc

18/11/0911 Obstacles to expect When you are the manager of the site you can see all posts and monitor what is being uploaded. Students are sometimes reluctant to contribute to Wiki’s because they lack confidence in their writing, they worry about not receiving credit for contributions, or they do not like their ideas, words, contributions being revised or deleted without consent. Some students will find the simple steps for editing and posting work daunting. Use of visuals and design options are limited, however you can use external editing tools.

18/11/0912 How to UNBLOCK your Wiki with the DET 1.See DET Guidelines. 2.Create Wiki (naming conventions) 3.Make the wiki private 4.In your wiki go to Manage Wiki 5.Click Domain Name 6.Find the URL eg/ 7.Go to portal 8.My Applications 9.Internet Filtering 10.Web filter check 11.Enter URL of Wiki 12.Submit 13.Request to unblock 14.Click here 15.Follow Prompts and log the request.

18/11/0913 Edit Link Image Media Widgets

18/11/0914 Help! Go to wikispaces.com Sign in Click help Click what area you need help in. To print help information. You need to highlight all the text. Copy. Open Word and Paste into a Word document. Also Click help Click old help content Click teachers Video tutorials

18/11/0915 How to….. Invite People Once you have created your wiki, you need to invite people to join. You can either invite individually, by going to manage wiki, invite people and insert address. OR The following URL is useful for bulk account creation for wikispaces. students-yourself.html

18/11/0916 Bulk account creation Now, for any of our K-12 wikis, you can create accounts for your students without having to send us an . Simply go to “Manage Wiki,” and then “User Creator.” All you need to begin are the usernames and passwords you want for your students. With the new user creator, you can: create accounts with or without addresses have passwords generated for you add a suffix or prefix to all the usernames to ease creation and make them members of multiple wikis straight away Once the accounts are created, you will receive an e- mail with all the usernames and passwords you’ve created for your records.

18/11/0917 Practical Ideas Wiki’s can be used for; -Simple websites -Peer reviewed projects -Group projects -Manage school and classroom documents -Classroom discussion and debate -Post classroom assignments -Great Website - use-wikis-for-a-more-collaborative-and-interactive- classroom/ use-wikis-for-a-more-collaborative-and-interactive- classroom/

18/11/0918 Practical Ideas Engadine PS URL : Botany PS URL : Menai PS URL :

18/11/0919 Discussion

18/11/0920 Useful Resources Go to -Sign in as username = SRteacher1 password = password -You are in Lena Arena’s Wiki -Click web2-for-teachers -Click Wiki -Click the link (excellent booklet for creating a wiki) You will also find other useful resources on this wiki. Log into some useful wikis for ideas. (gettingtrickywithwikis, learningweb2, WebTools4u2use, cooltoolsforschools).

18/11/0921 Editing Tools To resize a picture Host videos in other places Interactive Poster Creation (insert as a widget). Voice Recording Visual Literacy (Writing) Create images (fun!) Insert as a widget.

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