wixie workshop kit: introducing wixie

Wixie Workshop Kit: Introducing Wixie Tech4Learning, Inc

Wixie Workshop Kit 2

Wixie Workshop Kit www.tech4learning.com/wixie 7/25/2014

This kit contains resources to help you plan and implement a successful first workshop (taking a couple of hours) for teachers who are getting Wixie for the first time.

The kit includes a sample presentation, a presentation outline, ideas for hands-on tasks, play prompts to encourage exploration, handouts for use by teachers during and after the workshop, and a certificate for workshop participants.

The materials in this kit cover basic Wixie operations as a student and teacher. For more advanced features such as standards and assessment, explore the Training tab within Wixie.

Table of Contents Table of Contents ......................................................................................................................................... 2

Preparing for the Workshop ......................................................................................................................... 3

Presentation Ideas - Introducing Teachers to Wixie .................................................................................... 4

Ideas for Hands-on Work with Wixie ........................................................................................................... 5

Appendix A: Wixie Play Prompts .................................................................................................................. 6

Appendix B: Teacher Handouts .................................................................................................................... 9

Appendix C: Workshop Certificate ............................................................................................................. 20



Preparing for the Workshop Below are a few tasks we recommend you complete prior to the workshop.

Provision Wixie Accounts Having teacher and student accounts and classes set up when the training starts lets you really show off the

power of the Wixie teacher tools. Provisioning all accounts prior to the workshop lets you share student

usernames and passwords with teachers who may be overwhelmed with managing students log ins.

If you can’t provision student accounts, it is still a great idea to get teacher accounts created. While you can

create temporary or workshop accounts, if new accounts are created in the future for these teachers (with new,

unique account IDs), the materials they create during the workshop will need to be exported from the workshop

account and imported into their regular account.

Populate Your Wixie Account with Activities and Samples Before the workshop, log in to your teacher account and create a sample project or two to give you time to

explore the Wixie student tool as well as develop a high-quality example of the type of work you expect to see

students create in Wixie. You will find a tutorial on the Training tab and may even want to make your own

samples from the play prompts in Appendix A.

Explore the templates in the Activities tab to find and customize one you can share. You

may also want to ask a student to create a few samples in their account so you can

demonstrate how to view, comment on, and evaluate student work.

If you have participated in a Wixie pilot, you may already have accounts populated with

samples. You can ask teachers and students to click the Send button and choose Export

File to export samples from their accounts and share with you.

Test Devices If you are using PCs in the training, log in to Wixie from one of the computers you will be using to test that the

browser has necessary plug-ins and resources are white-listed. If you will be using tablets, make sure the Wixie

app is installed.

Prepare Handouts Explore the sample handouts in Appendix B and choose the ones you want to print and/or share with teachers

during the workshop. If you have all accounts created, print the log in information for students in each

participating teacher’s class.

Explore Support Resources The teacher handouts in Appendix B include two pages of support resources for technical information as well as

curriculum integration. Explore the links and resources to see which ones you think will resonate most with your

teachers, so you can highlight these during the limited time of the workshop.

http://www.tech4learning.com/wixie/implementation/it



Presentation Ideas - Introducing Teachers to Wixie

Here are suggestions for things to say on each page of the Presentation - Getting Started with Wixie PDF.

If you are combining an overview presentation with hands-on work, commit about one-third of the time to

showing Wixie and two-thirds providing hands-on time for teachers to work with Wixie.

Title page - Introduction

Why we purchased Wixie and what it will help us accomplish, for example:

Wixie is an online tool students can use to construct knowledge and communicate ideas. o Explain how Wixie fits into your district goals for the integration of technology

Wixie helps students learn to articulate thoughts and ideas effectively using oral, written and nonverbal communication skills in a variety of forms and contexts.

o Explain how Wixie supports your vision for student learning, technology integration, parent connections.

Page 2 – Wixie supports student learning

What can students create with Wixie?

With Wixie, students can use paint tools, text options, clip art, and voice recording to create projects like

digital books, ePubs, and printed comics that showcase their content knowledge.

o Click examples to explore projects or simply talk about the types of things you expect to do.

o Explain how students can make digital books, stories, printed comics, and more.

Pages 3-5 – Wixie supports effective instruction

Wixie is more than just a student tool.

Teachers are connected to students and classes and can create and assign work, develop activities,

create rubrics, and evaluate projects for these classes. For example, with Wixie, our teachers can:

1. Create and assign activities designed to help them meet specific learning goals. 2. Manage student work and progress, as well as individualize and differentiate instruction. 3. Evaluate student projects.

Page 6 – Get Started – Transition to hands-on work with Wixie

While a quick overview can help you set the stage, teachers will get the most out of hands-on time. At this point,

distribute log in information to teachers and have them get started on their computers or tablets. Share how the

process of logging in will be similar for students.

The following section includes ideas for hands-on work with Wixie.



Ideas for Hands-on Work with Wixie

Show how Wixie works for students (30 minutes) Log-in as a teacher

At the teacher dashboard, click the button to Create or edit a Wixie project. o This is the application that students will be using.

Click the Templates tab. Double-click the Bio Poem activity. o *This is a fun first Wixie activity with students and a great ice-breaker for back-to-school.

Read the instructions in the Options panel.

Double-click each text field to complete the poem.

Click the Stickers button to find and add clip art images and photos to the page. o Explain how projects are automatically saved.

Click the Page button on the toolbar to create a second page.

Click the Paint button. Use the paint tools to illustrate a self-portrait on this page.

Click the Arrow tool on the Paint panel. Click the red Record button on the Options panel. o Record a message about yourself. o This is a great time to talk about and learn how to set up microphones to record.

Click the Send button and discuss export options. o Have everyone choose Copy Project URL and open in a browser, or send to a colleague via email,

or share on social media.

Show how Wixie works for teachers (30 minutes) Click the Wixie button and select Home to return to the teacher tools.

Click the Activities tab. o Wixie includes hundreds of templates teachers can assign or customize. o Provide time for teachers to explore activities and share samples they found appropriate to their

specific students.

Demonstrate how to assign an activity. o Click the Assign button. o Choose to assign to the entire class or to individual students. o Choose a start and end date. o Click Save on the bottom of the window.

Click the Students tab. o Show educators how their students are connected. o You may want to have student work in your account to show.

Exploration Time. o Explore the play prompts in Appendix A. o Explore activities and practice assigning activities to students.

Getting started with students (10 minutes) There are suggested directions for getting students logged into Wixie in Appendix A, page 16.

Share support resources (10 minutes) There is a list or resources in Appendix A, page 18.

Questions and sharing (10 minutes)



Appendix A: Wixie PlayPrompts

Appendix A:

Wixie Play Prompts

Who do you want to be today? Wixie lets you easily capture your picture and place yourself in a far off country, head back in time, or transform yourself into an animal!

Launch the Wixie student tool and click the New Project button at the top. Click the Stickers button and the DV Camera icon at the top of the panel. Click a shape button to change the shape of the area that will be captured. Click and drag the zoom slider to control your camera’s zoom. Click the Camera button to capture a picture. Use the Paint Tools to add a historical costume, change yourself into an animal, or become a character in a book you are reading!

Click the Text tool to write a story about your new role.

Find more great ideas for using Wixie at: www.tech4learning.com/wixie/resources

Make a WANTED poster

You can use the Wanted Poster template in the activities to design your own WANTED poster. Launch the Wixie student tool. Click the Templates tab and double-click the Wanted Poster template to open it. Decide who is wanted.

An element on the periodic table?

A food chain predator?

The antagonist in a fable? Use the Paint tools and stickers to add their picture. Double-click the text fields and add text to identify the known aliases, last seen location, known associates, and favorite saying!


http://www.tech4learning.com/wixie/resources


Trading card fun

Wixie lets you easily create trading cards by combing paint tools, stickers, and text and then printing in trading card format. You can print multiple pages to one sheet of paper or repeat a single page you have created to cut and trade. Trading cards are great for learning about famous people, new vocabulary words, characters in a story, and getting to know classmates at the beginning of the year. Launch the Wixie student tool and click the New Project button.

Use the tools in Wixie to create a trading card. Click the Send button on the toolbar. Choose Print from the list that appears, select Repeat Page, and choose Trading Cards. This will print 9 copies of this page onto one piece of paper! If students have a lot of text, you may want to choose Postcard to print four copies per page or Comic to print six copies per page.


Create your own Venn Diagram Activity You can create your own activities in Wixie to give direction and focus to student work. Launch the Wixie student tool and click the Templates tab. Open the Graphic Organizers folder and double-click a Venn diagram template. Add text labels, art, and stickers to the diagram.

Click the Edit button on the toolbar and choose Edit Instructions to add instructions to the options panel.

Click the Wixie button and choose Home to return to the teacher dashboard. Click the Activities tab. Locate the activity in your My Projects folder(s). Click your Venn diagram activity to open it.

Click the Assign button to choose a date you will assign this activity to your entire class or specific students to differentiate instruction.






Appendix B: Teacher Handouts

Appendix B:

Teacher Handouts

Wixie www.wixie.com Tech4Learning, Inc.

Wixie is a publishing and creativity platform that lets students share what they know through their art, their

voice, and their writing. Student work is done in and stored in the cloud making it easy to access and share from

different locations and devices.

Because Wixie works in the cloud, it includes an entire suite of tools teachers can use to plan, implement, and

evaluate student work.

To use the Wixie teacher tools, head to your Wixie domain: http://sitename.wixie.com.

Log in with your teacher username and password.

Use the tabs on the left to see what is happening now in your class. Use the tabs on the right to find

instructional tools and libraries for activities, assessments, and training materials.

Home

When you open Wixie, you arrive at the Home tab or teacher dashboard that provides a button to launch the

Wixie student tool, an overview of this week’s activities, and current news for Wixie.

Assignments

The Assignments tab provides a quick calendar overview of activities you have assigned to a class, group, or

individuals. Click an activity in the calendar or the agenda to change dates and edit.

http://sitename.wixie.com/


Students

Because Wixie works in the cloud, your teacher account connects to the students in your classes. Use the

Students tab to:

View all of a student’s projects with dates.

Attach standards to student work.

Add comments to student work.

Evaluate and grade student projects using pass/fail, rubrics, or checklist assessments.

Export a listing of projects for every student in a class.

Export a list of Common Core standards that apply to work each has done.

When you open the Students tab, you will see a list of students on the left. The first student is selected and you

will see their projects on the right.

Click a project to view it larger, mark it complete, and add comments.

Click the Standards button on the right to connect standards to student work.


If you have assigned an activity from the library or attached an assessment to student work, click the Grade

button to evaluate and score student work. You can also mark student work complete, which means students

can no longer make changes to the file.

To score, click in the boxes that describe their performance.

This performance score also appears in the Standard view for each student.

You can use this view to find activities correlated to specific standards.


Activities

Wixie includes hundreds of standards-aligned activities.

Use the Activities tab to browse or search the library to find activities to use or customize. Activities are

correlated to the Texas TEKS, Virginia SOLs, and the Common Core State Standards.

Click the Search field to type a topic you are seeking or search for activities by standard.

Click the activity you want to use with students or customize on your own. You will see a larger image of the

activity, a description, and buttons that allow you to assign, customize, and view.

Click the Assign button to choose a date you will assign this activity to your entire class or specific students to

differentiate instruction.

Click the Customize button to open this activity in the Wixie student tools so you can edit instructions and

resources on the page.


Assessments

Not only can students create and complete curriculum-based projects with Wixie, the tools and resources in the

Assessments tab provides teachers with the ability to create, modify, assign, and score evaluations of student

work!

Wixie includes a library of assessments developed for primary, elementary, and middle school age students.

From pass/fail style, to checklist, to performance rubric, there are sample assessments to get you started.

You can edit any of these assessments or create your own.


Training

The Wixie Training tab contains resources to help you get started using Wixie with your students and facilitate

integration once you are working.

The left-hand side includes resources for using both the student and teacher tools in Wixie.

The top Recipes section contains a step-by-step tutorial for the Wixie student tool to help you learn the basics of

text, paint, images, pages, and voice narration.

The Snacks area contains reference files for specific Wixie tools and features organized by category. Click the

grey box to open a category. Click the title of the reference to open it or click the PDF icon to open a file you can

download or print.

Both the Recipes and Snacks related to the student tool are leveled for readability and computer proficiency.

Changing the reading level will change which recipe tutorial appears at the top.

Even if you are proficient, you can switch to Level 1 and 2 to find ways to word instructions for new readers.

The Articles section on the right includes resources and support materials for integrating Wixie into your

classroom curriculum, including grade-specific Common Core guides. There are also sample documents you can

use to connect with parents.


Here are some ideas for first Wixie projects that will help students get used to logging in, using the tools, and

sharing their work.

Getting Students Logged In

Print out the list of users for your class, including their usernames and passwords. Create a shortcut on student

computers to your site’s Wixie page. It should look something like this: http://sitename.wixie.com. In many browsers,

you can drag a shortcut from the URL address to your Desktop. You could also create a favorite in the browser.

Help students find and launch the shortcut to the site or the shortcut to your browser application and the

favorite you have saved. Have students enter their username and password into your Wixie home page and click

the Arrow button.

The Wixie student tool will launch and open to Projects view. Students can start from a blank project or open

general templates like graphic organizers. If you have assigned an activity, these will appear on the left.

Getting Started with All About Me

Creating a project where you already know the content makes it much easier to learn a new technology tool.

Before you begin, assign the All About Me template to your students.

The template consists of 6 pages. In completing the project, students will learn to move between pages, use the

paint tools, stickers, and type text into existing text boxes.

http://sitename.wixie.com/


More Ideas for First Projects

My Goals for This Year

Once students have used a template, they are ready to begin creating on their own.

You can also assign a goals template from the Templates folder in Activities.

Have students create a one-page document that lists their goals for this school year.

Students can add text boxes to identify their goals and add stickers to decorate.

My First Week of School

You can rotate the Wixie canvas to a portrait orientation, making it easy to envision printed

documents.

After the first week of school, or the first week using Wixie, have students create a

newsletter from the class to share with their families.

Vacation Snapshot

Wixie includes some fun print and image export options including comics and PDFs.

Have students create four pages in Wixie relating a story or significant events in their

summer (or other) vacation. Choose Send, choose Print, and select Comics, or choose

Export Images and C to create one page that shows all of the panels. This supports

Marzano’s instructional strategies of non-linguistic representations and summarizing!

Sharing Student Work

It is easy to share student work in Wixie. Click the Send button on the toolbar to see

choices for sharing the project.

When students build a project, it is immediately assigned a URL location where it can be

viewed online. Choose “Copy Project URL” to copy the URL to your clipboard. You can

paste that URL in a browser, email the URL to the person you want to share the project

with, or link to the project URL from your classroom or school web site.

If your Wixie account is set up to require a pass key, users will have to enter this key

before they can view the project.

You can export Wixie projects as images, PDFs, Flash files, HTML, and ePub. You can also print Wixie projects as

booklets, comics, trading cards, and more.

Find more ideas at our blog!

http://bit.ly/wixie-first-projects

http://bit.ly/wixie-first-projects


Integration Support for Users Teachers and students can find additional support resources in the app and teacher dashboard as well as through email and online resources.

Wixie Help Users can access help in the student tool by clicking the Wixie button and choosing Help.

Wixie Training Tab Teachers can access tutorials for the student and the teacher tools from the Training tab at their home screen.

Resource Kits Tech4Learning has developed a series of resource kits to help classroom teachers successfully integrate Wixie into Common Core State Standards, Virginia SOLs, and Texas TEKs. There are also kits to support literacy, science, second-language learners, and reading programs like Journeys and Treasures. http://www.tech4learning.com/wixie/kits

Wixie by Tech4Learning: Facebook Fan Page Receive updates about Wixie in your Facebook feed, as well as find and share student projects by “liking” the Wixie by Tech4Learning fan page on Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/WixiebyTech4Learning

Wixie Tips Emails Teachers can sign up for regular emails which include information and ideas to help you:

• engage students with creative projects • connect with parents • make the most of the Wixie teacher tools

http://web.tech4learning.com/wixie-getting-started

Wixie Videos Visit the Wixie YouTube channel to find how-to videos as well as instructional resources for Wixie. http://bit.ly/wixie-youtube

Wixie Lesson Plans Creative Educator lessons for Wixie provide high-level ideas for engaging students in the curriculum while building creativity, communication, and critical thinking. http://creativeeducator.tech4learning.com/lessons/wixie

Wixie Activities Visit the Trading Post to find teacher-created activities and samples for Wixie projects. Wixie can also open Pixie files, so you don’t need to limit your searches and downloads. http://tradingpost.tech4learning.com

http://www.tech4learning.com/wixie/kits

http://www.facebook.com/WixiebyTech4Learning

http://web.tech4learning.com/wixie-getting-started

http://bit.ly/wixie-youtube

http://creativeeducator.tech4learning.com/lessons/wixie

http://tradingpost.tech4learning.com/


Curriculum Resource Kits for Wixie Tech4Learning has developed resources kits that include articles, samples, curriculum guides, lesson plans and more to help you successfully integrate Wixie into your classroom.

All current kits can be found at: http://www.tech4learning.com/wixie/kits

Common Core Guides Meet Common Core State Standards by

creating with technology.

http://bit.ly/wixie_cc

State Standards Guides Guides include activities, projects, &

examples for grades K-5.

http://web.tech4learning.com/t4lwxteks

http://web.tech4learning.com/t4lwxsol

Elementary Literacy New approaches through creative

technology in the Primary Classroom.

http://web.tech4learning.com/t4llitelem

Elementary Science Ideas for using technology to engage

elementary students in science.

http://web.tech4learning.com/eskt4l

Treasures Reading Technology extension ideas for grades 1–6

http://bit.ly/wx-treasures

http://bit.ly/treasures-ca-guide

HMH Journeys Technology extension ideas for grades 1–6.

http://web.tech4learning.com/hmrgt4l

English Language Learners Build English Language skills with

technology.

http://web.tech4learning.com/elat4l

NETS Correlations Using Wixie to meet the ISTE NETS for

Students.

http://bit.ly/wixie-nets

http://www.tech4learning.com/wixie/kits

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http://bit.ly/wixie_cc

http://web.tech4learning.com/t4lwxteks?utm_campaign=cta_t4l-r_wxteks&utm_source=t4l&utm_medium=resources&utm_content=r_wxteks-r

http://web.tech4learning.com/t4lwxteks

http://web.tech4learning.com/t4lwxsol

http://web.tech4learning.com/t4llitelem?utm_campaign=cta_t4l-resources_litelem-r&utm_source=t4l&utm_medium=resources&utm_content=r_litelem

http://web.tech4learning.com/t4llitelem

http://web.tech4learning.com/eskt4l?utm_campaign=cta_t4l-r_esrk&utm_source=t4l&utm_medium=resources&utm_content=esrk-r

http://web.tech4learning.com/eskt4l?utm_campaign=cta_t4l-r_esrk&utm_source=t4l&utm_medium=resources&utm_content=esrk-r

http://web.tech4learning.com/eskt4l

http://web.tech4learning.com/t4l-treasures-reading?utm_campaign=cta_t4l_treasures-t&utm_source=t4l&utm_medium=teachers&utm_content=treasures-r

http://bit.ly/wx-treasures

http://bit.ly/treasures-ca-guide

http://web.tech4learning.com/hmrgt4l?utm_campaign=cta_t4l_hmj-r&utm_source=t4l&utm_medium=resources&utm_content=hmj-r

http://web.tech4learning.com/hmrgt4l

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http://web.tech4learning.com/elat4l

http://www.tech4learning.com/userfiles/file/pdfs/Wixie/Wixie_NETS.pdf

http://bit.ly/wixie-nets



Appendix C: Workshop Certificate

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