Wikispaces for the Classroom
Why use wikis?
Lesson Summaries Collaboration of Notes Concept Introduction and Exploratory
Projects Dissemination of Important Classroom
Learning Beyond the Classroom Individual Assessment Projects
Advantages of using Wikispaces
Wikis are free to K – 12 educators using the link http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers.
Wikis can be edited from anywhere, anytime Assignments can be submitted anytime Communication can continue outside the
classroom in a safe environment
Your Privileges as a Wiki Organizer
Setting permissions for the whole wiki Managing wiki members Changing the look and feel Locking pages so no one can edit them Deleting or renaming files and pagesCan promote others to organizers as
well
Managing Your Wiki
Look and feelPermissionsInviting peoplePages
Click on “Manage Wiki”
Setting Look and Feel
Set the colors and theme of your wiki
Upload a custom logo
Choose theme and color
Managing Permissions
Decide who can view or edit your wiki
Manage permissions for individual wiki pages
Under “People” click on “Permissions”
“Private” is the suggested setting
Specific Permissions
Inviting Members (with email)
Go to Manage Wiki > Invite People to send an invitation email to the folks who will be collaborating in your wiki. Just type in up to 100 email addresses or Wikispaces usernames, separated by commas or line breaks, and hit Send.
Inviting Members (w/o email)
If you are a teacher and need to add a whole class’ worth of student accounts, you can do it all at once by going to Manage Wiki > User Creator. You will be able to make accounts for all of your students, even if they don’t have email addresses.
Keep in mind that every Wikispaces username must be unique. Try using numbers, or initials, or a first name-last name combination to create unique usernames.
Where? In Manage Wiki
Select Your Options to Invite People
Look in Tools: Set Notifications
If click on Changes Tab,
Your main page is set up. Now what?
Think about the pages and links you’d like on your homepage.
What will students use the most?What do they need easy access to?What is the purpose of the page, and
how can you divide it to make administration easier?
Add a Page
To add a page, click on New Page in the toolbar.
Give the page a title
Set Page Name, then click Create
Step 1
Step 2
To Put Links on Homepage
Go to bottom of toolbar and click on “Edit Navigation”
These should be links that would be used often
Edit Bar Appears
Add links to body of page, just below “Include Page List
Type name of webpage, highlight, and click “link”
Step 1
Step 2
Editing Your Page
Once you’ve set up your page, you can add:
TextLinks within textDocumentsVideoWidgets
Text
Click on the “Edit” tab at the top of the page, and this box will appear
Type as you would in Word
FontChanges Lists
You can always preview your changes and cancel or save
Links
To insert links, highlight text Click on Edit, and the Link icon Type the address in the External Link tab Then Click Add Link
Documents
In the edit tab, click on fileType the name of the file you want to
upload. It will show up on the screen. Then embed. OR
Consider using Slideshare to save documents and slideshows. Use embed code to add.
Insert File
Slideshare
Set up an free account at Slideshare.netUpload any of your documents or
PowerPoint presentations.Slideshare will save them under your
account, and give you an embed code.Caution: They will be available to the
public.
Advantages
Students can review presentations and information
Students have access to documents at home
Adding Video
From various sources: TeacherTube, Youtube, Youtube.edu, Google
The embed code is located beneath or to the right of the video.
Copy it.
Find Embed Code and Copy
To Insert Video: Click on Edit, Widgets. This box will appear. Click on Video.
Specify the original location of the video by clicking on box.
Paste the embed code (this will place video on your webpage) and save
Paste code here
Other Widgets: Embedding GoogleDocs Forms
Begin by Creating a Form in GoogleDocs
Great for online assignments, surveysGo to docs.google.com and click on
Create FormOnce finished, you have the option of
getting an imbed codeClick on Form, Imbed Form on webpageA box appears with a codeCopy the code
Embed Code
Add the widget
• Click on Edit, Widget
• Click on Other html
• Paste code in box
The form will appear on the wiki
Students can answer questions online.All data entered in the form will go into a
spreadsheet in GoogleDocs, viewable by you.
Another suggested form: AnswerGarden (great for surveys; answers presented in Word Clouds) http://bottspot.wikispaces.com/
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