Wikispaces for Teachers A Guide to Using Them in Your Classroom
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What is a Wiki? • A webpage with an Edit button • Easy to use • Perfect for collaborative learning
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Why Wikispaces? • The world’s easiest to use wiki • No experience necessary. You are up and running in minutes. • Constantly bring you new and improved features • Develop the product based on what you, our community, wants. • Highly-praised customer service
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What Our Users Are Saying “WOW!…I honestly thought my email to you guys was going to be a shout into the night like it is for most places - but then you responded right away… [Wikispaces] has become indispensable to what I do.” -Matt Dilley "Since I set up a Wikispace for my classes I have received nothing but positive feedback from parents, students and other faculty members. I have found a new resource that is easily accessible by students and parents. It allows parents to find out what their son or daughter is doing in my courses. Thank you.” - Blair Simms "Let me say how impressed I am with your service. It always amazes me that such an organization still has that personal touch.” -Westley Field This work is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License
Why Bring It To The Classroom? • Great motivator for students • Easy to monitor • Allows for creativity and innovation • Encourages participation of all students • Promotes communication between students, teachers, and parents • A new, interesting way to learn
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How Can I Use it in a Classroom? • Simple websites • Peer-reviewed projects • Group projects • Manage school and classroom documents • Classroom discussion and debate • Teacher collaboration • Post classroom assignments • Collaborate with an international classroom This work is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License
Getting Started‌
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Wiki Terms • User Account: Your identity on Wikispaces, consisting of username, password, and e-mail address • Space: A wiki on which you can collaborate • Page: Each space can consist of multiple pages
User Account Space 1 Page 1
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Space 2 Page 1
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Space 3 Page 3
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Wiki Terms Continued Wikispaces has different permissions settings for your space •
Public: Anyone can view or edit your Wikispace
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Protected: Anyone can view your space but only members can edit
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Private: Only members can view or edit your space
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Editing Your Wiki •
Click the Edit This Page button at the top of your wiki.
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Write the text you would like on your page.
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You can format it with bold, underline, italics, headings, and more.
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Once you are done editing, click Save.
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Adding Links on Your Wiki •
Click Edit This Page.
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Highlight the text you would like to link and click on the earth icon in the toolbar.
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Another window will appear allowing you to create a link to another page in your space or another website.
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Click Ok.
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Adding Images to Your Wiki •
Click Edit This Page.
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Click the icon that looks like a tree.
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Browse your computer for the image you would like and click Open.
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Upload the chosen picture or file.
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Place your cursor where you would like the image on the page.
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Double click the image or file to place it on the page.
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Adding Media to Your Wiki •
Click Edit This Page.
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Go to the icon of the TV in the toolbar.
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Choose the type of object you’d like to embed.
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Follow the instructions for embedding each object.
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Click Save.
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Time for an Activity
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Activity • Let’s teach each other about various countries • Take the next 15 minutes to edit your wiki’s text, add links, and add an image or a video clip.
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Additional Resources for Teachers • Wikispaces will create your student accounts for you! – http://www.wikispaces.com/help+teachers
• Check out our K-12 Educational Community at: – http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com
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Our Offer to Teachers
Plus Plan is FREE for Educators!
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Wikis for Your School District Private Label Benefits: • Self-contained wiki environment • Unlimited spaces and user accounts • Safe and secure • Administrative control • Wikispaces support
Learn more about Wikispaces Private Label at www.wikispaces.com/site/privatelabel This work is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License
Questions? • Visit us: http://www.wikispaces.com • Email us: help@wikispaces.com
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Thank You Thanks for listening and watching along. We hope to hear from you soon. Until then, - The Wikispaces Team: Adam, Bisma, Dom, James, and Sarah
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