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 * Using a Wiki as Your Classroom Hub: **** Features and strategies to make your wiki a gathering place for learning **
 * Date/time: **** Thursday, March 25, 2010; ** Same content repeated at two time blocks: **4:00-5:15 pm and 7:00-8:15 pm EDT**

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 * Links mentioned or used during this session:**

Wiki Examples: to look for potential characteristics and organizational strategies to make your wiki the hub of your class. Look for *hub* ideas.


 * TeachersFirst Wiki Walk-Through IDEAS section:** http://www.teachersfirst.com/content/wiki/wikiideas1.cfm

Wiki Warranty- download from this page and adapt as needed

Sample page of embedded items

**Five Minute Wonders**
Here is the cheat sheet of **Helpful Skills to Make a Class Wiki Run Smoothly:**[| wikiHubskillshandout.pdf]. If you wish to make more than a PERSONAL copy of this sheet, please request permission from **cshively(at)sflinc.org**. As a non-profit, we need to know who is using our materials and how we can steer them to our site. Please help us continue our free service to teachers by supporting our efforts.