iLearn Elementary Science Session 4 Virtual Science Fair Setting Up a Wiki Account to Share Science Fair Projects

Focusing Questions What are the benefits of having others view and discuss student work? How can we view and discuss student science projects digitally in an authentic method?

Instruction

Framing The Session The most meaningful learning moments come from the interactions and conversations amongst learners. When creating a Science Fair, the process should be thought of in the same way. Students need to be able to ask questions, get feedback, and interact for true learning to take place. The interaction between peers, staff, and visitors is critical for students to take ownership of the process and the content. The internet is changing and allowing for this type of interaction in new and exciting ways. We will be setting up a wiki so that your learners will have a platform to display their projects to a larger audience for sharing and learning.

Teaching Step 1: Go to Step 2: Input the requested information Step 3: When picking your wiki name, pick something that will be easy to remember and type Step 4: Click Join (if your wiki name is taken, it will ask for a alternate name)

Guided Practice Step 1: Go to Step 2: Input the requested information Step 3: When picking your wiki name, pick something that will be easy to remember and type Step 4: Click Join (if your wiki name is taken, it will ask for a alternate name) Step 5 : That ’ s it! You now have a class wiki.

Work Time

Getting Started You will learn how to set a class page and invite all your students to be members in one quick step. You are going to love how easy it is to use. Students will love the ability to communicate in an authentic nature with others.

Work Time Brainstorm pages you might want to have… (Agenda, Unit of Study, Homework, etc…) Under the Home link is “edit navigation” link. Click it. Click “edit navigation” to create pages

Work Time To make a page, all you do is type the word you want to be a page and put 2 brackets in front of and behind it. Ex - [[Earth Science]] - This doesn’t have to be perfect today, you can always change it by using the edit feature. [[ don’t forget the brackets]]

Teaching It really is that easy! Look at all your pages!

Work Time You will be sending one list to wikispaces with usernames and passwords.

Work Time User names must be at least 3 characters long and Passwords must be at least 6 characters long. When creating names, you might want to use your school in it to make sure that name isn’t taken. Jessejamesps03 would be a great username. JJ2032 could be their password (Initials and last four digits of their student number)

Work Time Create your list so that it looks like the following format (Username, password) Then just the list to Make sure to include your username and the name of your wikispaces Please add the following users to my wikispace: jessejamesps03, JJ2032 jennejamesps03, JJ2033 jiffejamesps03, JJ2034

Work Time Step 1: Brainstorm pages for their wiki Step 2: Add pages by entering them under “edit navigation” Step 3: Remember to use two brackets on each side and SAVE when finished Step 4: Create a practice list of usernames and passwords to mail to Step 5 : Explore more options on Wikispaces by looking at the HELP feature on the top of your wikispace

Share

What benefits can you see to using a wikispace to celebrate student work? What drawbacks, if any, can you anticipate in using a wikispace to celebrate student work? Any ideas of how we can address these issues? Share

How does this work address the questions that began the session? Answers

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