1. How can a
Wiki Site
enhance
collaboration
between home &
school? by Heather Whaikawa

2. Firstly, what is a
Wikisite?
Well basically it’s a bit like a
Bebo or Facebook!

3. Benefits
- Showcase our Centre
- Children can contribute
- Add pages as needed
-Whanau can view
children’s work
- Write comments
- Inform, entertains

4. I have always
wanted to
showcase
student work.
We do some really cool stuff and
we’re proud of their efforts.

5. So... I decided
to give it a go!
I learned all I could about
making a Wiki site

6. Secondly, I had
to learn how to
use Keynote
to present my
findings.
Which Beth said was soooooo easy!!!
( yeah right)

7. Watching the
movie.......
5 hours later !!
I began to get the hang of it!

8. All this effort
just to present
my Wiki site?
But my knowledge & understanding
increased immensely! (Ha Ha)

9. Over the years
we had tried
several
options...

10. Many of which
failed.....

11. Miserably !
They were just too time
consuming.....

12. There had
to be a
better
way?!!

13. A Blogspot wasn’t
going to do the job!
(You have to scroll down looking
for what you want....)

14. With guidance
from Beth.....
And some PD, I learned that a
Wiki site may do the trick.

15. I think I’ve
cracked it now!

16. Now to get
started....
(Remember Angel??)

17. We have 4 areas in
Technology
....So I started
making pages.

18. You guessed
it....

19. One page for

20. Textiles

21. Media Tech

22. Hard Materials

23. Food Technology

24. Plus...... Our
Juniors

25. Year 4, 5, 6
Technology

26. It took
sweat &
tears
from
here!

27. But I managed
to insert
colourful text

28. Images

29. Graphics
( this was really
tricky!)

30. And all the bits and bobs that
make up a wikisite!

31. Take a Look...
http://mvtechcentrewikispacescom.wikispaces.com/

32. To add a soundtrack:
1. Click Inspector in the toolbar, and then click the Document inspector
button.
2. Click the Audio button.
3. Do one of the following:
To add a song or playlist from your iTunes Library, click iTunes Library. Find
the song or playlist you want, and then drag it from the Media Browser to
the Audio well in the Document inspector. Note that if you make changes to
the playlist in iTunes, the change won’t be reflected in your soundtrack until
you add the playlist again.
To add an audio file from the Finder, drag it from your desktop to the audio
well in the Document inspector.
4. To make the song or playlist play through repeatedly while the presentation
is running, choose Loop from the pop-up menu adjacent to the audio well.
5. To preview the song while you’re working on your slideshow, click the Play
button below the audio well.

33. At first I thought the Wiki was going to be too time consuming for
all my photos, but all you do is use the 'Table'
In Keynote, only put the effect on some of the turning pages,
otherwise its too distracting.
That a Screen shot is one the most useful bit of ICT I could
possibly know. I use it HEAPS! (Shift + apple + 4).
My wiki site is easy for kids to use. They love talking about their
work and having their photo on the internet.
I'm nearly ready to trial it with Nunguru School. I don't know as
yet how safe it is, eg. can people go in and change text etc?
So, I still have more to test and work out
I must go into the internet before i present so that it flows staight
into the hyperlink
Music - this was challenging, but I went to the 'help' and just
follow instructions exactly. It was cool.
Kids love going into the site and talking about their own work!!