6. With colleaguesOr, you could choose not to let anyone else make changes to your wiki and just use it as your classroom web-based “bulletin board”. Wikis in Plain English
7. Why would I want to use one? Impressive communication tool Fun & effective collaboration tool for students/teachers Easy to create and maintain—if you can use Microsoft Word, then you can make a wiki. Free 4 2 5 1 3
9. BREAK… Come back in 5 minutes for Part Two: Making a Page Tips for Managing Your Wiki
10. Part Two Overview Go through the basic steps for setting up a free educator account. (Using Hey wiki naming guidelines) Take a look at “Manage Wiki” link. Review the main editing buttons. Samples of parent letters, Heyworth wiki guidelines, copyright guidelines, etc.
Editor's Notes
Students can work together in school or at home 24/7 to have a discussion, create ideas, post information or pictures…the possibilities are endless.A wiki could be a place that parents can communicate with you or just see what is happening in your classroom…since it’s web-based there’s no “I never saw that hand-out or home note.”Ever worked on a group project and various people have various responsibilities and emails are flying around and stuff is on various computers until finally you don’t know WHO has what…and you have to call another meeting to sort yourselves out. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a place where everyone could see everything that everyone else was doing and everything was stored in one place???
Go to my wiki and sample wikis to point out these four items. On MY WIKI: point out the Edit, Save, Discussion, History, & Notify Me tabs!!!
