Presented by Susan Hefley

Going Green the Digital Way

AgendaWikis

What is a Wiki?

How can you use a wiki with your students?

How do wikis work?

Wiki FAQ

Also:Turning papers in to student folders rather than printing them.

Turning in Papers DIGITALLYNo one likes to take a

stack of papers home to grade each night. Their hand writing is hard to read, it is a lot of writing for you, etc. Have you ever thought of using the computer to help you? There is a way to have students electronically submit their papers and projects and for you to review them.

Currently at Dassa McKinney, students must save to their own folders, but YOU have access to their folders and can go in and OPEN that file, you can even make comments (Microsoft Office only) and re-save, for the student to look at later. This might work best for that in between sloppy copy to final draft step.

How to Review Microsoft Word or Microsoft PowerPoint files

This movie will

show you how to:

1. Open a

student’s

folder

2. Track changes

to their

document

3. Add comments

to their

document or

power point.

Adobe Captive MovieHow to use the Review tab in Microsoft Office

Wikis

• What is a wiki– Learn more by watching this video

• What is wikipedia? Plus more about the wiki world.

• Basically….a collaborative website

• How are wikis used?– Collaboration– Large Projects– Online Presentations– Organization of knowledge and

input

How can TEACHERS use a wiki?

Is a wiki safe for my students?

• Provide students with a new format for free writing• Offer students a new approach for peer editing and peer responses• Give teachers a forum to create collaborative projects• Share resources with students• Create a portfolio of work for each student or class• Create a class project• Support service learning projects

Wikis, like any online product, do have their risks, but with careful planning and purposeful teaching, many of these can

be eliminated or negated. Most importantly caution and prohibit students from giving out any personal information

on the Internet.

Wiki Guidelines

What you tell students:

Do not put any personal information on this page (last name, school name, teacher’s name, e-mail address, home address, etc.)

Students using wikis are expected to treat the wiki as a classroom space. Speech that is inappropriate for class is not appropriate for your wiki.

What you tell parents:

Student’s personal information is not posted on this website

Projects are designed to provide students with practice for their writing skills and to improve their computer and Internet skills in a collaborative manner

Ready to see a real wiki?There are two major sites that offer wikis to teachers:

Wikispaces and PBworks.

Both offer similar features, but there are slight

differences (click here to learn the differences).

Click on the links below to see similar sites at

bothWikispaces and PBWorks. Feel free to poke around,

press the edit button and get a feel for the site.

WikiSpaces

PBWorks

More example education wikisGreenville, PA 5th grade class: REALLY well

thought out wiki for use with current, former and future 5th graders.

Individual Teacher’s Wiki (used as a simple webpage)

Arbor Heights Elementary: an impressive use of a wiki to create a district page.

Spanish class with student created pages.

Play Time!Ready to make your own wiki?

Choose which you want.Both have the same basic steps.

WikiSpaces

PBWorks

PBWorks: Step 1 Go to www.PBWorks.com Click on Get Started

Choose Educational, then click on Try It NOW, you will also need to select a free account

Enter your e-mail address and create a password on the next screen.

Choose what you want the space to be called, choose something short and sweet. You will have to type this in and remember it often.

With the pull down menu choose that this wiki is for education.

Press NEXT.

PBWorks: Step 2Check your e-mail. Follow the link

in that e-mail.

Is your wiki going to be public? This means that ANYONE can edit it, we suggest this option so that students may make edits. Private wikis are accessed by logging in to the site. You can also edit the access policy of each page later.

1. Choose your access levels.

2. Accept the terms of service.

3. Press TAKE ME TO MY WORKSPACE!

PBWorks: Step 3

If you want check out some of the GREAT resources you will find on your

new front page. There are some especially good short videos that you

might want to check out.

Beware: You will delete all of this great stuff in just a minute, so if you want to

check it out, do it NOW! (or at least copy it to somewhere else or

bookmark the links!)

PBWorks: Step 4

Ready to Edit?

Click on EDIT PAGE. Highlight the text on the page and delete it to start fresh.

PBWorks: Editing the Page

Hint: If you want, some find it easier to type their text in Microsoft Word and copy and paste into this editor (this will not work for images). You can simply use the editor provided as well.

PBWorks: Editing the Page

Step 4: Just start typing (or copy and paste) your page. Use the EDITOR to help make the text bold, italic or underlined or to change its size.

PRESS SAVE WHEN YOU ARE DONE!

PBWorks: ExtrasYou can do almost anything with a

PBWorkspace that you can do with a traditional website. Here are some basics you might want to try:

Adding an ImageCreating a New PageLinking to the New PageLinking to a Different WebsiteManage Your PBWorkspace

Click to go back to the beginning.

Finished learning about the Extras? What to do next?

1. Make sure that you have the image you want to use saved somewhere on your computer.2. Click on EDIT so that you can change the page.3. On the right you will see a box labeled INSERT LINKS (under Page Tools). In that box, click on IMAGES AND FILES.4. Click on Upload File5. Browse your computer to find the file of the picture you want to insert.6. You file will appear in the Images and Files box, click on it.7. You can edit your picture (change the size or orientation) by clicking on the edges and dragging it.

PBWorks: Adding an Image

PBWorks: Creating a New Page

1. Save the page you were working on.

2. In the top right corner click on: CREATE A PAGE.

3. Type the name for your new page, try to keep it short and avoid spaces.

4. Choose if you want a template and what kind.

5. Press create.6. You have a new page, edit and save

as you did for your main wiki page.Hint: You may want to go back and link to this page from your main Wiki Page! See this slide.

PBWorks: Linking to the New Page

* These directions will help you link to a page that you created within your wiki. To

link to an outside website see this slide.

1. Open the page you want to link FROM by clicking Edit this Page.2. Type the text you want to link.3. Highlight this text.4. On the EDITOR bar click on the Insert Hyperlink button (the

globe button with the chains).

5. Go to the next slide.

PBWorks: Linking to the New Page 2

6. The link type is a PBWorks Page.7. In the drop down menu link to the wikipage of your choice.8. Press OK.9. Done.

PBWorks:Linking to a Different Website* These directions will help you link to a page on the world wide web that is outside your PBWorkspace. To link to a page that

you created within your wiki see this slide.

1. Open the page you want to link FROM by clicking Edit this Page.2. Type the text you want to link.3. Highlight this text.4. On the EDITOR bar click on the Insert Hyperlink button (the

globe button with the chains).

5. Go to the next slide.

PBWorks:Linking to a Different Website 2

6. Link Type is URL.7. Type in the web address underneath the word URL, including the www part.8. Press OK.9. DONE.

PBWorks: Managing your PBWorkspace

By clicking on Settings in the top right corner you can customize your site in many ways. Change the look and feel of the site by clicking on

Colors View the Access Controls

Here you have control over whether your site is public or private, and most importantly users of your site and their roles in addition to managing notifications and RSS feeds

To allow/teach students to edit the page, simply give them the directions you have learned here and the address to your page (remember in Step 1 you chose the Site Name? The site address is that name +PBWorks.com. For example the Site Name of our site is Chrisrobin01 so the address is Chrisrobin01.PBWorks.com)NOTE: All future editors of the site will need to be invited

via e-mail OR be given a user name and password you set up through classroom accounts.

Learn even more…..HERE.

Differences

WikiSpaces Students are not required to log-

in, but the changes are not tracked by student. There is no way to keep it private without log-in.

Log-in requires an e-mail address. No comment field, but an entire

discussion page is associated with the wiki.

Basic text editing includes size, bold, italic and underline but little else.

Slowly adding widgets including many well known partnerships.

Ability to see AND revert to old versions of all pages under history.

Many features are limited to premium memberships.

Ads by Google on the side.

PBWorks Requires students to log-in to edit

page, they DO NOT NEED an e-mail address to edit the page. This allows the changes to be tracked by student. (More…)

No discussion feature currently, but you can add comments at the bottom of every page.

More text editing features that appear more like Microsoft Word.

Many widgets/plugins including YouTube and ANY Google Gadget.

Ability to see, compare AND revert to old versions of all pages under page history.

Although there are some features limited to premium memberships, these are offered at discounted or NO cost to K-12 educators.

No ads.

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How does that work?You tell PBWorks how many accounts you

need.You match student names (optional) with

their role on the wiki, their username and their password.

You can manage student use, see when they last logged-in, change their role if needed but once the account is set up. YOU cannot change their user-name or password. It is suggested that you record these somewhere safe.

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You know the basics of HOW to create a wiki. Now go to the wiki you created and PLAY WITH IT. Create something that you AND your students can really use!

Think about what you want to do with the site:Do you want a basic class website?Do you want an interactive class website? If so, how will

you make it interactive?Allow and require comments at the bottom of YOUR

pages. Use it as a spring board to other interactive websites…..

Give students their own page(s) that they must write. You can even comment on their pages OR require them to comment on others.

What else?

What next?

ReferencesCunningham, Ward. "What is Wiki."

Wiki.org. 27 June 2002. 12 Feb 2008 <http://www.wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WhatIsWiki>.