YOUR CLASS WIKI

Megan Poore

YOUR CLASS WIKI

Megan Poore

• Welcome

• Wikis in education

• Ideas for practice

• Educational wikis

• Class management wikis

COVERAGE

• Go to

edupedia.wetpaint.com• To work at your own pace:

www.slideshare.net/meganpoore

• To explore other cool tech to use with your students:

learningfutures.wordpress.com/

VISIT THE WEB

• Website

• Users create and edit pages

• Users collaborate on a single page

• Wikis are all about the contributors

WIKIS

• Still not sure?

> edupedia.wordpress.com

> Go to Module 1 and watch the video

WIKIS

• Check out some wikis

> edupedia.wordpress.com

> Module 3: Wikis ideas for practice

> Links and resources

WIKIS IN CLASS�

• What is the purpose of the wiki? Management or teaching? Do an analysis.

• Are students engaged?

• Are pages focused?

• Quality of writing? Thinking?

• Easy to navigate?

• Discuss it on the forum!

EXERCISE: WIKIS IN CLASS�

FOCUS: WIKI BENEFITS

• Brainstorm some of the benefits of wikis in the classroom: Intellectual and writing? Communication, participation,

collaboration, socialisation? Motivation Class management?

• Discuss it on the forum!

IDEAS FOR PRACTICE

• Teachers for teachers Sharing tips, ideas, resources Discussing issues, pedagogy,

curriculum, policy Networking Announcements Tips and tools

IDEAS FOR PRACTICE

• Class management Announcements, info Links Advice Communicate with parents

Assignment review and submission

• Educational Sharing info, ideas Resource/research

collections Synthesis of ideas, opinion,

facts, research Peer review Discuss workshop activities

IDEAS FOR PRACTICE

• What sort of wiki do you want?

Professional?

Class management?

Educational?

• How you set up your wiki will depend on your answer

FOCUS

BrushUP!Megan Poore

BrushUP!Megan Poore

• Go to

brushup.wetpaint.com

VISIT THE WEB

• Get a wiki from WetPaint

or

• Pull up the one you made last time

REGISTER YOUR WIKI

SAVE

WRITING PAGES

• Play around and write stuff on your home page

> Sign in > EasyEdit

• Add images, media, whatever

SAVE

HYPERLINKING

• Add a hyperlink

> EasyEdit > Highlight the text > Link

> Paste in the URL from the site you want to link to

> Add Link

SAVE

INSERTING AN IMAGE

• Direct link to an image on the web

> EasyEdit > Image

> Paste in the URL of the image you want to link to

> Add image

SAVE

• Upload an image from your computer

> EasyEdit > Image

> Locate the picture on your computer’s hard drive

> Open

> Add image

INSERTING AN IMAGE

SAVE

ADDING A TABLE

• Add a table

> EasyEdit > Table

> Specify properties

> Add table

SAVE

ORGANISING PAGES

• Create/Write these pages:

1. Homepage

2. Course guide

3. Assignments and assessment

4. Module 1

5. Module 2

6. Module 3

SAVE

• Move pages

> Go to the page you want to move

> More tools > Move page

> Set page location

> (Move up or down > Set page order)

ORGANISING PAGES

EXERCISE: ADD YOUTUBE

• Add a YouTube video

> EasyEdit > Widget > YouTube

> Select

> Add by URL or Embed

> Paste in the URL of the video you want to link to

> Add YouTube video

> DoneSAVE

EXERCISE: ADD A POLL

• Add a poll

> www.vizu.com

> Sign Up

> Create your poll

> Export poll > Get export code

> Copy the export codeSAVE

• Back to WetPaint:

> EasyEdit > Widget > Vizu

> Select

> Enter export code

> Add Vizu Poll

> Done

SAVE

EXERCISE: ADD A POLL

SAVE

MAKE YOUR WIKI NICE

• Customise your style

> Settings > Styles

> Choose something

> Save changes

SAVE

PRIVACY OPTIONS• Set who you want to view

your wiki

> Settings > Permissions > I want to change these settings

> Next > Yes, make the change now

SAVE

INVITING USERS �• Set who you want to add to

your wiki

> Invite > Choose role

> Add email addresses

> Add message etc.

> Send invitations

DISCUSSIONS

• Start a thread on a page• Start a thread on the wiki-wide

forum

POST

• When looking for a wiki host: What support? FAQs?

Forums? Comment moderation?

Privacy? Customisation? Widgets?

Pages? Free space?

WHICH WIKI?

MORE INFO

brushup.wetpaint.com

edupedia.wetpaint.com

www.meganpoore.com

LICENCE