1. WELCOME TO WIKIS
A talking head collaboration featuring
Peter Eckstein
Sara ShapiroPlevan
2. WHAT IS A WIKI?
(FROM WIKIPEDIA)
A wiki is a website
that allows the easy creation and editing
of any number of interlinked web pages
via a web browser.
Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites,
for personal note taking,
and in knowledge management systems.
Wikis can also be used for pictures, videos and other
applications, for storage of content and materials/
3.
4. DID YOU KNOW?
(FROM WIKIPEDIA)
Wikis are for
CREATING,
SHARING
and COLLABORATING
Wikis are
Free
Easy
WYSIWYG: What you see is what you get.
The word WIKI is from the Hawaiian for
“quick”
5. THIS IS WARD CUNNINGHAM.
March
25, 1995
Thanks, Ward.
7. Wisdom resides in the
skills, understandings, and
relationships … as well as in the
tools, documents, and processes of
practitioners in the field.
From Cultivating Communities of Practice, Wenger, McDermott and Snyder,
WHY A JEA WIKI
?
8. USING THE WIKI
Getting Started
Sharing and Uploading
Writing, Commenting and Annotating
Collaborating
9. THE MENUS: WHAT’S THERE?
The Left Hand Menu
Managing Your Wiki
Creating a New Page
(so that everyone knows it's there)
Tracking Changes:
Tracking Evidence of
Collaboration
10. THE MENUS: WHAT’S THERE?
The Page Tabs: The Top Menu
Discussion
History
Notify
My profile
My wikis
11. THE WIKI TOOL BAR
Editing a Page
Just like MS Word! Edit, Write and Save.
Adding Links
How to upload a document
Always SAVE
12. front of you.
Click Edit in the upper right hand side of this page.
Click on the "picture" button (File) in the Editor box above.
A dialog box will open. Click on the button entitled "+Upload Files".
Select from your computer the appropriate files.
Once you've selected the appropriate files, click Open.
Once it’s uploaded, you’ll return to the upload dialogue box.
Click on the appropriate document or documents. The documents should appear
in the wiki page.
To the right of your document, you should name your upload. Please use the
following description:
Name/Title of Upload (teacher contract, bar mitzvah handbook, school
calendar, etc.).
Your name in parentheses following the description.
Once you are finished, you must press SAVE in the Editor box above.
(tested by Peter Eckstein)
HOW TO UPLOAD AND SHARE
Find the page to which you'd like to upload the document. Have the page open in
13. WHAT’S ON OUR WIKI?
Welcome to Wikis
JEA59 Conference
Administrativa
Bar and Bat Mitzvah
Jewish Holidays
Our Professional Team
Milestone Experiences
Now let’s take a look around!
Why is a wiki important?We know that the JEA serves as one of our professional networks, a community of critical colleagues who share a common set of values and concerns. A wiki enables us to systematically share our knowledge, expertise and tools in order to improve our practice and interact on an ongoing basis. We do this, because..
