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INTRODUCTION TO BLOGS AND WIKIS IN THE CLASSROOM

INTRODUCTION TO BLOGS AND WIKIS IN THE CLASSROOM. SMR Ultranet Coaches’ Workshop Program 2009. What Have You Done So Far?. Have used blogs or wikis with your students Have used blogs or wikis for personal use Know what blogs and wikis are but haven’t used them What are blogs and wikis….??

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INTRODUCTION TO BLOGS AND WIKIS IN THE CLASSROOM

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  1. INTRODUCTION TO BLOGS AND WIKIS IN THE CLASSROOM SMR Ultranet Coaches’ Workshop Program 2009

  2. What Have You Done So Far? • Have used blogs or wikis with your students • Have used blogs or wikis for personal use • Know what blogs and wikis are but haven’t used them • What are blogs and wikis….?? • Share some of the ways that this group has used blogs and wikis. • Add your ideas / examples to the workshop wiki

  3. What are Blogs and Wikis?

  4. Blogs – What do they look like? Blogs that showcase the school and student's work • Examples on Connect Examples on Global Teacher • Examples on Bright Ideas (SLAV) Examples on Netbook Trial wiki • Examples on Hume wikiHawkesdale P-12 College – school blog • ePotential – search for blogs for professional learning and examples • Berwick Lodge School BlogLEEP - a class blog at Berwick PS • ICT with Berwick LodgersLittle Voices, Little Scholars: March 2009 • Mosgiel Park PS BlogLisa Hill’s Staff Blog (teacher Mosgiel Park) • Kathy Cassidy – BlogmeisterJane L -- Blogmeister • Mr. Lund's Fifth Grade ClassA World of Wonder

  5. Wikis – What do they look like? • Examples on Connect • E.g. Mansfield P-2 wiki • Examples on the WMR wiki • Examples on Netbook Trial wiki • Primary Web2.0 Tools - Web2.0 tools for 5-8 year olds • ePotential – search for blogs for professional learning and examples • E.g. http://brokenworld.wikispaces.com/A+Broken+World (secondary example)

  6. Access and Guidelines Access • Using a class blog or wiki is easier to manage than individual student blogs and wikis • Accounts / access granted by teacher as administrator • Teacher monitors the student contributions • Can be private or public, with different access levels set by the teacher Guidelines • Connect – Blogging (DEECD) • Global Teacher Guidelines • Global Student – ‘About Global Student’ • Connect – Wikis (DEECD) • Parental permission / student agreements – Web2.0 specific…….

  7. How To……….. Blogs Intro video tour and specific “How To…” videos (using Jing Screencasts) http://edublogs.org/videos/ Edublogs Help - http://help.edublogs.org/ Lois Smethurst - http://loisath.edublogs.org/beginning-bloggers/ Wikis Text and video instructions Wikispaces - http://www.wikispaces.com/help+index Pbworks - http://pbworks.com/content/supportcenter

  8. Creating Class Blogs and Wikis • Use the Educational plans – basic ones are free. • Can be difficult to find the “Create a New Wiki / Blog” link at times! Click the links below to find them….. For class blogs and student blogs For teacher blogs only Need to request upgrade to educational AFTER creating the wiki in Wikspaces (even though you set it up as K-12) Go to pbworks-academic pricing

  9. Creating Student Accounts For Students Without Email Accounts • Blogs Use dummy student gmail accounts attached to your own teacher gmail account . Wordpress blog describes how. • Wikis You can create student wiki accounts without them having their own eMail address Wikispaces Blog The Official Blog of PBworks

  10. A Couple of Teacher Resource Wikis for Help With Web2.0…... • ICT Toolkit - http://icttoolkit.wikispaces.com/ (Established by NMR Ultranet Coaches) • Susie Vespar - http://educationalsoftware.wikispaces.com/

  11. Examples of Web 2.0 Tools to Embed Voicethread Glogster Animoto (Use the Educator Versions) Teacher Tube

  12. Thanks for your participation. • Good luck in using blogs and wikis with your students. Jonathan Hall SMR Ultranet Coach hall.jonathan.m@edumail.vic.gov.au Mobile : 0403 350 484 Thanks also to Lois Smethurst at Berwick Lodge PS for aspects of this presentation.

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