This document provides instructions for setting up and using a wiki to actively engage students and communicate with parents. It outlines 10 steps for creating a wiki through Wikispaces, including making an account, creating pages, editing pages, adding discussions, viewing page histories, and enabling email notifications. The overall goals of using a wiki are for collaboration, reducing email overload, creating an archive of work, and building electronic student portfolios.

1. Actively Engage Your Students and Keep Parents InformedBy Lynne Butkiewicz

2. OverviewWikis are used for a variety of purposes:Collaboration and communication

3. Reduce email overload

4. Have an archive of the work that has been done

5. Create an electronic portfolio for your studentsMake Lessons InterestingActive Lessons

6. Sharing ideas

7. Games

8. Replace worksheets

9. Working with friends Step 1 go to http://www.wikispaces.com/and create an account

10. Step 2 Select a user name and password and enter an email address – click public

11. Step 3 – you will see Welcome to Your New Wiki –Table of Contents of pages and information that will help you create a wiki site

12. Step 4 – After you have logged in, you can create a new page. On the top of every page, over to the right there is an edit button that you can click on to make your changes.

13. Step 5 –Editing Tab Page: The next screen is a welcome to your wiki where you can add or delete information on that page