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Xuan Qin EDIT556: Technology Leadership in Schools Instructor: Dr. Doyle- Nichols

for Teachers Creating a Free Course Websites of Your Own with Wikispaces ― Staff Development Introduction. Xuan Qin EDIT556: Technology Leadership in Schools Instructor: Dr. Doyle- Nichols. What is Wikispaces ?.

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Xuan Qin EDIT556: Technology Leadership in Schools Instructor: Dr. Doyle- Nichols

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  1. for TeachersCreating a Free Course Websites of Your Ownwith Wikispaces― Staff Development Introduction Xuan Qin EDIT556: Technology Leadership in Schools Instructor: Dr. Doyle- Nichols

  2. What is Wikispaces? • Wikispaces.com is a free wiki website that provides teachers and students with an on-line tool for teaching and learning. • With this on-line tool, teachers can easily create a course website for instructional purposes.

  3. How to Use A Course Wikispaces? • Post course syllabus; • Provide instructional materials, including readings, text-based handouts, static illustrations, animations, and audio; • Create various instructional and learning activities ; • Post assignments as well as rubrics, and give samples; • Provide a collaboration and communication platform for students themselves, and students with the instructor; • Offer teacher feedback on students’ individual and group work.

  4. Benefits for A Teacher to Create A Course Wikispaces • Easy to use; • No experience necessary; • Better organize your lessons; • Better manage and keep records of your instructional materials and students’ assignments; • Easy to monitor students’ learning process; • Save office space occupied for a large number of class documents’ or assignment portfolios’ binders and folders; • Save time to give teacher feedback by typing by comparison with comment by handwriting.

  5. Benefits for Studentsto Use A Course Wikispaces • Submit assignments in an economical and convenient way; • Enhance motivation; • Build active learning and participation attitudes; • Improve collaboration and communication skills; • Develop high-order thinking through research, summary, synthesis, and evaluation; • Raise critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making skills; • Demonstrate creativity and innovation; • Understand social, ethical, legal, and human issues regarding the use of tech-based sharing tools.

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