Willard teachers: If you were not able to participate in one of the Wiki workshops this month, or would rather learn on your own timetable, you are in luck. The Fusion: Wikis webpage now offers an updated handout and short video tutorials (screencasts) to lead you through the steps of publishing a wiki with Wikispaces.
And, there’s more! If you want to earn 3 Salary Advancement Workshop hours/3 points while you wiki, you can enroll in the free, online, professional development, Moodle course: Wikispaces. This course uses the handout and screencasts on the Fusion webpage to lead you through the steps. Work at your own pace, when it fits in your schedule, from any computer with Internet access. Just in time learning, at your convenience!
Don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions or suggestions. I’m happy to provide you with additional assistance.
On Tuesday afternoon ALL the rubbish from EVERY bin @ Nelson Central School was taken and put into the hall. On Wednesday the seniors went and helped sort it into 4 piles: paper, cardboard, food scraps & plastic. We could see all the rubbish that our school makes in a DAY!
Six and Seven Year olds blogging?! Fortunately, this is not the first time I’ve seen this. There are other primary teachers also taking the plunge into the blogosphere with their students. Mrs. Cassidy’s first grade students are blogging and podcasting. Just recently Tom McMillan wrote an article for Canada.com about Kathy Cassidy’s classroom entitled Blogging 101 motivates students.
If you can’t run your own blog, it may be time to go back to Grade 1.
I’m looking forward to watching Presentation 2 from Rachel’s students. These presentations are a part of the keynote for Round 2 of the free, online Time4On-line Conference, and are my favorite of the lot.
Another outstanding video from commoncraft. Excellent introduction to the wiki concept.
I see the day coming when we use only wikis and blogs to create classroom web sites. The days of using Mozilla Composer and having to be logged into the school network to post your web pages are coming to an end.
A wiki (IPA: [ˈwɪ.kiː] or [ˈwiː.kiː][1]) is a website that allows visitors to add, remove, and edit content.[2] A collaborative technology for organizing information on Web sites, the first wiki (WikiWikiWeb) was developed by Ward Cunningham in the mid-1990s.[3][4] Wikis allow for linking among any number of pages. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for mass collaborative authoring.[5]Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, is one of the best known wikis.[4] -From Wikipedia
What this means for you, is that you can publish a web page in a matter of minutes, for free, from any computer with Internet access, without installing any software. This web page could develop into a class web site, or an on-line unit. Since you can allow multiple authors to edit a wiki, it could be a collaboration tool for your book study group, cadre, or department. Your students could easily publish individual wikis or collaborate on a class wiki. Wikis even include RSS feeds for subscribing so that users can receive updates automatically.
Vicki Davis, queen of the wikis, published this great video, Wiki Collaboration in the Classroom for the K12 On-line Conference. (You can right click on the video title and choose to download it to your computer, as opposed to streaming it by clicking the play button on the embedded player.)
Wikiplaces: student published, A to Z account of life in Hafford, Canada
The Good the Bad and the Ugly of the Internet: a Wiki where educators can collaborate and share information about the web and how to best educate our students, parents and communities.
Body Systems Wiki: 7th grade science class at Smithfield Middle School in North Richland Hills Texas
There are several wiki services available. I would recommend Wikispaces. They are in the process of giving away 100,000 free Plus Accounts (features that normally cost $50/year, such as no advertising) for K-12 teachers. To learn more, register for my summer Wiki workshop on July 30th.
Willard teachers: If you were not able to participate in one of the Wiki workshops this month, or would rather learn on your own timetable, you are in luck. The Fusion: Wikis webpage now offers an updated handout and short video tutorials (screencasts) to lead you through the steps of publishing a wiki with Wikispaces.
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