Wednesday, 4 May 2011

Wikis

What is a wiki?!   Good question!  It's an on-line collaborative tool useful for project work.  It's similar to a website and is best used by one particular class for the whole academic year.
here is a video tutorial
http://pbworks.com/content/webinars
  Students can edit each others posts and work collaboratively. Check out the new wiki I invited you to join at
http://janebarden.wikispaces.com/ 

Here are some other much better wikis for you to check out
http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com/Examples+of+educational+wikis

Wikis are learning platforms, so it is up to the teacher and the students to add content.

Sign up for a free educator’s wiki at www.wikispaces.com .
If you choose the K 12 educator option you will get a High School wiki for free which will enable you to add up to 100 students as writers even if you don't have their email addresses.

Good luck!

Hello

Hi everyone. Within seconds I have created yet another blog and I am going to post up links to everything we study over the next few weeks in this blog.  It will be your personal reference point as well as giving guidance to people who don't yet have blogs.
I would like you to open a blog at www.blogger.com.  The only complicated part of is chosing a unique URL.  Within minutes you too will be writing your first post!

Here is an introduction to me.   What do you think the words mean to me?


 Tagxedo is apowerful design tool which makes beautiful word clouds. Check it out at www.tagxedo.com
Another great site is wordle.net.   We will look more at these sites in our afternoon sessions.

Here is a link to training videos on the power of wallwisher. (I'm sure you all know about Wallwisher now!!) What about adding a video, image or link.
http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/wall/index.html 

Monday afternoon I would love you to investigate