Wikispaces allows educators to create wikis for classroom use. Wikis enable collaboration through editing pages from anywhere, sharing notes, and continuing discussions outside of class. As a wiki organizer, teachers can set permissions, manage members, customize appearances, lock pages, and delete content. Teachers can invite students by email or create accounts for students without email. Various features like pages, links, documents, videos, forms and other widgets can be added to engage students and share content.

1. Wikispaces for the Classroom

2. Why use wikis? Lesson Summaries Collaboration of Notes Concept Introduction and Exploratory Projects Dissemination of Important Classroom Learning Beyond the Classroom Individual Assessment Projects

3. Advantages of using Wikispaces Wikis are free to K – 12 educators using the link http:// www.wikispaces.com /site/for/teachers . Wikis can be edited from anywhere, anytime Assignments can be submitted anytime Communication can continue outside the classroom in a safe environment

4. Your Privileges as a Wiki Organizer Setting permissions for the whole wiki Managing wiki members Changing the look and feel Locking pages so no one can edit them Deleting or renaming files and pages Can promote others to organizers as well

5. Managing Your Wiki Look and feel Permissions Inviting people Pages

6. Click on “Manage Wiki”

7. Setting Look and Feel Set the colors and theme of your wiki Upload a custom logo

8. Choose theme and color

9. Managing Permissions Decide who can view or edit your wiki Manage permissions for individual wiki pages Under “People” click on “Permissions” “ Private” is the suggested setting

10. Specific Permissions

11. Inviting Members (with email) Go to Manage Wiki > Invite People to send an invitation email to the folks who will be collaborating in your wiki. Just type in up to 100 email addresses or Wikispaces usernames, separated by commas or line breaks, and hit Send .

12. Inviting Members (w/o email) If you are a teacher and need to add a whole class’ worth of student accounts, you can do it all at once by going to Manage Wiki > User Creator . You will be able to make accounts for all of your students, even if they don’t have email addresses. Keep in mind that every Wikispaces username must be unique. Try using numbers, or initials, or a first name-last name combination to create unique usernames.

13. Where? In Manage Wiki

14. Select Your Options to Invite People

15. Look in Tools: Set Notifications

16. If click on Changes Tab,

17. Your main page is set up. Now what? Think about the pages and links you’d like on your homepage. What will students use the most? What do they need easy access to? What is the purpose of the page, and how can you divide it to make administration easier?

19. Add a Page To add a page, click on New Page in the toolbar. Give the page a title

20. Set Page Name, then click Create Step 1 Step 2

21. To Put Links on Homepage Go to bottom of toolbar and click on “Edit Navigation” These should be links that would be used often

22. Edit Bar Appears Add links to body of page, just below “Include Page List Type name of webpage, highlight, and click “link” Step 1 Step 2

23. Editing Your Page Once you’ve set up your page, you can add: Text Links within text Documents Video Widgets

24. Text Click on the “Edit” tab at the top of the page, and this box will appear Type as you would in Word Font Changes Lists You can always preview your changes and cancel or save

25. Links To insert links, highlight text Click on Edit, and the Link icon Type the address in the External Link tab Then Click Add Link

26. Documents In the edit tab, click on file Type the name of the file you want to upload. It will show up on the screen. Then embed. OR Consider using Slideshare to save documents and slideshows. Use embed code to add.

27. Insert File

28. Slideshare Set up an free account at Slideshare.net Upload any of your documents or PowerPoint presentations. Slideshare will save them under your account, and give you an embed code. Caution: They will be available to the public.

30. Advantages Students can review presentations and information Students have access to documents at home

31. Adding Video From various sources: TeacherTube, Youtube, Youtube.edu, Google The embed code is located beneath or to the right of the video. Copy it.

32. Find Embed Code and Copy

33. To Insert Video: Click on Edit, Widgets. This box will appear. Click on Video.

34. Specify the original location of the video by clicking on box.

35. Paste the embed code (this will place video on your webpage) and save Paste code here

36. Other Widgets: Embedding GoogleDocs Forms

37. Begin by Creating a Form in GoogleDocs Great for online assignments, surveys Go to docs.google.com and click on Create Form Once finished, you have the option of getting an imbed code Click on Form, Imbed Form on webpage A box appears with a code Copy the code

38. Embed Code

39. Add the widget Click on Edit, Widget Click on Other html Paste code in box

40. The form will appear on the wiki Students can answer questions online. All data entered in the form will go into a spreadsheet in GoogleDocs, viewable by you. Another suggested form: AnswerGarden (great for surveys; answers presented in Word Clouds) http:// bottspot.wikispaces.com /