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Wiki Workshop: An Open Help and Collaboration Session (Extended Time Session)

**Monday February 25, 2013** ** 6:00 - 8:00pm (EST) **//** *Extended time session **//

** Prerequisites: Teachers who plan to attend must... **

- Have an established, activated classroom wiki (wikispaces, pbworks, or other) - Know how to access and do basic editing on their class wiki - Be familiar with wikispaces or their own wiki tool (demonstration of skills will be done in wikispaces, though most skills are also applicable in other wiki tools). - Have their wiki open in another tab when they enter this session.

**Getting Started:**

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**Links/files mentioned or used during this session:** [|TeachersFirst]

[|Wiki Walk-Through] (see more ideas for wikis)

== page of embedded items with pro/cons about embedding  == == Help wiki for common questions, how to's, and management from Louise  ==
 * Resources:**


 * [|Wiki Warranty.] Use this to establish class policies and have parents and students SIGN it. ** **It is also a good idea to copy/paste it directly ON your wiki as a reminder.** (Word document) from TeachersFirst (download, customize, include ON your actual wiki and send home for parents and students to sign). Please give proper credit for this adaptable document as mentioned in the document heading. ** RIGHT click and Save Target As ** to save a copy to your own computer where you can customize it.

A teacher-contributed list of wiki examples (shared by wikispaces) articles and resources about wikis in education Wikispaces own "sandbox" wiki to play with a wiki or teach your students the basic wiki skills without "ruining" your own (beware that ANYONE may have been "in the sandbox" recently, so preview!).
 * Wiki Examples:**
 * SAMPLER of classroom wikis (just a taste!)**


 * 5 by 5 wiki links**
 * 1) Embedding in a wiki: Glogster, Slideshare, Voicethread (student created,) Video, Google Calendar, Surveys
 * 2) Searching tags (enter the term in the search bar of the wiki to see), Use of a template for a wikispace: Here are examples of two pages created from the same template: page one, page two; and a sample of a blank page that could be made into a template)
 * 3) Management options for the wiki
 * 4) Navigation, clustrmaps (map in navigation)
 * 5) Wikispace widgets: Table of contents, flat table of contents, etc.

= FIle to register many students at once: =  
 * [|Details]
 * [[file:teachersfirst/samplewikispaceenroll.xls|Download]]
 * 22 KB

Wikispaces classroom Keeping it simple with wikispaces classroom Formative assessment with wikispaces classroom News feed in wikispaces classroom