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Wikis. Tools for Collaboration Loess Hills and Green Valley AEAs January 22, 2008 Karen Burns, SW Iowa Library Service Area. Today’s Plan. What is a wiki? (with examples) How might you use it? Editing a wiki Wiki hosts Creating your own wiki Security

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Wikis

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  1. Wikis Tools for Collaboration Loess Hills and Green Valley AEAs January 22, 2008 Karen Burns, SW Iowa Library Service Area

  2. Today’s Plan • What is a wiki? (with examples) • How might you use it? • Editing a wiki • Wiki hosts • Creating your own wiki • Security With some tips along the way, and.. Practice time!!

  3. Resources • On YOUR wiki: http://iateacherlibrarians.pbwiki.com

  4. What is a wiki? • Website • Multiple authors (choice of public or private) • Facilitates collaboration

  5. What can I do with a wiki? Collaborative partners Faculty Other Teacher Librarians Public Libraries Collaborative projects Resources for classes Tech Tips/ procedures Class projects

  6. What tools do I have? • Text • Links • Upload documents, spreadsheets, etc. • Plug-ins: chat embedded videos photos

  7. Examples of wikis • SWCC Tech Tips • Educators Best Practices and Examples • Teacher Librarians Wiki • Library Best Practices Wiki • Library Instruction Wiki

  8. SWCC Tech Tips

  9. Educators Wiki (pbwiki)

  10. TeacherLibrarian Wiki

  11. Library Best Practices Wiki

  12. Library Instruction Wiki

  13. Editing & Contributingto a wiki iateacherlibrarians.pbwiki.com

  14. You’ll edit your OWN page…

  15. “For Ourselves”

  16. Public, but still requires PW to edit

  17. Editing a page

  18. Add text…

  19. Ooops! What if I mess up?

  20. Revert to previous version in History

  21. Compare:Changes from version to version

  22. Edit YOUR page: • I’ll push wiki home page to you • Log in with password I give you • Navigate to your page: “For Ourselves” “TL#” (Your number) • Click on “Edit Page” at the top • Add book(s) • Come back to the classroom (but leave the wiki window open…)

  23. Adding a link To a page outside this wiki To a page in this wiki

  24. Add a link to Amazon’s page for one of your books • I’ll push Amazon to you • Search for your book, copy the address to the page • Go to your wiki window and link the book title to the Amazon page • Save • Come back to the classroom You can close Amazon, but leave wiki open

  25. Adding a page

  26. Creating page from link

  27. Creating a page with ‘new page’

  28. Add a page to the wiki • Go to your page on the wiki • Create a new page: type text and link to the new page, then click on the linked text to create page OR Click on “New Page” to create page, then type text for the link to the page you created and link to the page • Return to the classroom

  29. Some choices for wiki host • pbwiki (peanut butter wiki) • Wikispaces • Zoho Wiki • Wetpaint

  30. Wikispaces

  31. Wikispaces

  32. Wetpaint

  33. Editing a page

  34. Ad-free Wetpaint for education

  35. Zoho

  36. Zoho Wiki Editor

  37. Settings—Who can edit?

  38. Create your own wiki!

  39. Starting your own wiki with pbwiki http://pbwiki.com/education.wiki

  40. Choose site name/address

  41. Almost ready to edit…check e-mail

  42. Click on link in e-mail confirmation

  43. Free, but can upgrade

  44. Wikispaces

  45. Ready for your first edit!

  46. Wikispaces welcome to educators

  47. Changing “Look and Feel”

  48. Theme, Colors, Logo

  49. Edit page

  50. Adding a page in Wikispaces

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