Your class wiki

Slide 1: YOUR CLASS WIKI Megan Poore

Slide 2: COVERAGE • Welcome • Wikis in education • Ideas for practice • Educational wikis • Class management wikis

Slide 3: VISIT THE WEB • Go to edupedia.wetpaint.com • To work at your own pace: www.slideshare.net/meganpoore • To explore other cool tech to use with your students: learningfutures.wordpress.com/

Slide 4: WIKIS • Website • Users create and edit pages • Users collaborate on a single page • Wikis are all about the contributors

Slide 5: WIKIS • Still not sure? > edupedia.wordpress.com > Go to Module 1 and watch the video

Slide 6: WIKIS IN CLASS • Check out some wikis > edupedia.wordpress.com > Module 3: Wikis ideas for practice > Links and resources

Slide 7: EXERCISE: WIKIS IN CLASS • What is the purpose of the wiki? Management or teaching? Do an analysis. • Are students engaged? • Are pages focused? • Quality of writing? Thinking? • Easy to navigate? • Discuss it on the forum!

Slide 8: FOCUS: WIKI BENEFITS • Brainstorm some of the benefits of wikis in the classroom:  Intellectual and writing?  Communication, participation, collaboration, socialisation?  Motivation  Class management? • Discuss it on the forum!

Slide 9: IDEAS FOR PRACTICE • Teachers for teachers  Sharing tips, ideas, resources  Discussing issues, pedagogy, curriculum, policy  Networking  Announcements  Tips and tools

Slide 10: IDEAS FOR PRACTICE • Class management  Announcements, info  Links  Advice  Communicate with parents  Assignment review and submission

Slide 11: IDEAS FOR PRACTICE • Educational  Sharing info, ideas  Resource/research collections  Synthesis of ideas, opinion, facts, research  Peer review  Discuss workshop activities

Slide 12: FOCUS • What sort of wiki do you want?  Professional?  Class management?  Educational? • How you set up your wiki will depend on your answer

Slide 13: BrushUP! Megan Poore

Slide 14: VISIT THE WEB • Go to brushup.wetpaint.com

Slide 15: REGISTER YOUR WIKI • Get a wiki from WetPaint or • Pull up the one you made last time

Slide 16: WRITING PAGES • Play around and write stuff on your home page > Sign in > EasyEdit • Add images, media, whatever SAVE

Slide 17: HYPERLINKING • Add a hyperlink > EasyEdit > Highlight the text > Link > Paste in the URL from the site you want to link to > Add Link SAVE

Slide 18: INSERTING AN IMAGE • Direct link to an image on the web > EasyEdit > Image > Paste in the URL of the image you want to link to > Add image SAVE

Slide 19: INSERTING AN IMAGE • Upload an image from your computer > EasyEdit > Image > Locate the picture on your computer’s hard drive > Open > Add image SAVE

Slide 20: ADDING A TABLE • Add a table > EasyEdit > Table > Specify properties > Add table SAVE

Slide 21: ORGANISING PAGES • Create/Write these pages: • Homepage • Course guide • Assignments and assessment • Module 1 • Module 2 • Module 3 SAVE

Slide 22: ORGANISING PAGES • Move pages > Go to the page you want to move > More tools > Move page > Set page location > (Move up or down > Set page order) SAVE

Slide 23: EXERCISE: ADD YOUTUBE • Add a YouTube video > EasyEdit > Widget > YouTube > Select > Add by URL or Embed > Paste in the URL of the video you want to link to > Add YouTube video > Done SAVE

Slide 24: EXERCISE: ADD A POLL • Add a poll > www.vizu.com > Sign Up > Create your poll > Export poll > Get export code > Copy the export code SAVE

Slide 25: EXERCISE: ADD A POLL • Back to WetPaint: > EasyEdit > Widget > Vizu > Select > Enter export code > Add Vizu Poll > Done SAVE

Slide 26: MAKE YOUR WIKI NICE • Customise your style > Settings > Styles > Choose something > Save changes SAVE

Slide 27: PRIVACY OPTIONS • Set who you want to view your wiki > Settings > Permissions > I want to change these settings > Next > Yes, make the change now SAVE

Slide 28: INVITING USERS • Set who you want to add to your wiki > Invite > Choose role > Add email addresses > Add message etc. > Send invitations SAVE

Slide 29: DISCUSSIONS • Start a thread on a page • Start a thread on the wiki-wide forum POST

Slide 30: WHICH WIKI? • When looking for a wiki host:  What support? FAQs? Forums?  Comment moderation? Privacy?  Customisation? Widgets? Pages?  Free space?

Slide 31: MORE INFO brushup.wetpaint.com edupedia.wetpaint.com www.meganpoore.com

Slide 32: LICENCE