Welcome to OTAN Online! Presenter: Barry Bakin If you are new to Connect, watch this short video, be sure to be back to the meeting by the starting time!

Getting Started With Your Own Wiki Website Barry Bakin ESL Instructor, Pacoima Skills Center ESL Teacher Advisor for Technology, Evans Community Adult School, ESL Coordinator, South Gate Community Adult School Division of Adult and Career Education Los Angeles Unified School District

1)All participants will sign up and get a wiki 2)All participants will become familiar with basic wiki tools and tasks such as creating and editing a page, making links, and “reverting to a prior version”. Goals for today’s 90 minute workshop

But first… Some housekeeping items (Making sure you can hear and be heard) Connection Speed Using “My Status” Using the Chat Pod VoIP – configuring your microphone Recording Session Notification

Set Your Connection Speed

Communication in Connect: Chat Pod My Status

Using Voice over IP (VoIP) and configuring your microphone Be sure to click “Allow” when the Flash Player asks to access your microphone.

Using Your Microphone To use your microphone, be sure to Raise Your Hand using the button at the bottom left of your screen I will grant you rights to speak. Use the “Push to Talk” button to ask your question. If you are in a noisy area I may “mute” or revoke your rights.

Download Files: Click on file name in “Download Files” pod Click “save to my computer” New window opens (or a pop-up appears) Click “click to download” Select “Save” Select your “Desktop” Click “save” After file downloads, click “Done” Close new window, return to Connect, repeat

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What’s a Wiki anyway? 1)A simple way for an individual to “publish” information on the Internet 2)A simple way for a selected group of viewers/users of the wiki to change the information that is presented. 3)A way to preserve the changes 4)A way to keep a history of the changes

Some Wiki characteristics 1)You can organize the order and relationship of pages 2)There are ways to determine who can make changes 3)You can keep them simple or add other features 4)Easy enough that students can learn to make changes in one lesson. 5)You can add images and/or video clips 6)You can “undo” changes easily

Some Wikis in action! The OTAN wiki for Web 2.0 tools (Click on the Wiki link) The wiki my students use to listen to mp3 files I’ve created (instead of a podcast page) The wiki my students created in collaboration with students from Burlington, Vermont. The wiki my students created in collaboration with students from Burlington, Vermont.

More Wikis of note…. Wikis created by former participants of this workshop! (Leila Rosemberg-to post information for the teachers) (Vincent Nunez-gives his students assignments and has them post their writing) (Liz Koenig created this site for CBET teachers to access and exchange materials and information)

Get your own wiki!

Go to Click on “For Education”

Go to Click on “Sign up now”

Go to Select “FREE”

Fill in the simple form… and click “Next” This will be the actual URL of your wiki so make it easy for students to remember!

You should see this screen next, so go check the your !

Check your “inbox”

Click on the embedded link (The old name for PBWORKS was PBwiki)

“Anyone” means anyone in the world! (Many educators recommend “Only people I invite or approve” if you work with young people.) Make some decisions about your new wiki Agree For editing privileges, keep the default setting. This combination of settings means that “outsiders” can see your wiki, but NOT change it. Click here!

…but the title that is displayed can be changed from the “Settings” page The URL can not be changed… Click on “Edit” to do just that, but before we do that, let me show you one more thing about the security settings... THIS is your NEW WIKI!

If you chose a private wiki, and somebody happens to try your URL… …they will be asked to log in or request access (remember that your wiki is “private”)

If you chose a “public” wiki, and somebody happens to try your URL… …they will see the Front Page of your wiki, but if they click on “Edit” they will be asked to request access or “Log in!”

This screen will appear. They will fill in the required information and click “Send to administrator”

This screen will appear. Once they’ve been approved, they’ll be able to edit the wiki!

For more help, contact me at Also, view

Homework Assignment! 1)Continue to develop your own wiki! 2)Visit my Training Wiki at … 3)and add* your new wiki to the list of Participant Wikis” (Don’t forget to include your URL to make it an active link and “Save” before you exit…) 4)or me the link to your wiki so I can view it (I don’t have to edit it) 5)Complete your homework by February 26 and you can get one extra hour of credit for this workshop.

Reminders: Please fill out the evaluation at: A window will open for you when I end the meeting Let me know that you’ve completed your homework assignment by sending me a message at by February 26. You need to let me know if you want a certificate! Thank you for joining me today!