Professional Development Day workshop 2/19 Working with a Professional Development Day workshop 2/19 Presentation by: Kathleen Weil and Jennifer Rhoades

What is a wiki? Wikis and blogs Teacher use Student use Today’s Objective: What is a wiki? Wikis and blogs Teacher use Student use Create your own wiki

Already have a blog. Wikis and blogs are wonderful when used together Already have a blog? Wikis and blogs are wonderful when used together! Here’s the difference: Wikis Blogs An interactive website Can attach any type of doc Best for group projects Added content can go anywhere on page Comment/Post/Comment Word docs are complicated Best for individual points of view Added content always goes at the top of the page

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License What is a Wiki? A webpage with an Edit button Easy to use Perfect for collaborative learning Overview: A Wikispace is basically a group of web pages with “edit” buttons on them. It’s a simple way to edit web pages and to have others edit them with you. Wikispaces is designed to be easy and fun so that you can focus on getting things done with students, teachers, and anyone else you need to work with. You can get started with a wiki very quickly and don’t need much training. All you need to do is to create an account and space and you are ready to go. Wikispaces isn’t limited to text. It can hold many pages, each of which can have pictures, videos, discussion forums, documents, spreadsheets, and more. This means you can work on essays or other text-based projects, but you can also upload classroom handouts and homework assignments or have your students create visually interesting multimedia classroom projects. Key points for this slide: A wiki is a web page with an edit button. It’s easy to use because it’s easy to work with and easy to get started with. It has many uses in education due to its simple collaborative nature. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License 4

Teachers ‘organizers’ and Students ‘members’ http://psmart.wikispaces.com/ http://weilsgym.wikispaces.com/ http://mrsbaarmusic.wikispaces.com/