Wiki+Tips

. Wiki Tips for Poor Tired Teachers


 * 1) If you forget your username and password or the dog or computer ate your username or password it is OK. You can use any other teacher’s username and password from your grade level.
 * 2) Have the students be part of the writing process. This can be a group journaling activity or you can have individual students edit and type on the wiki pages. After you visit the outdoor classroom for a lesson make a habit of writing on your Wiki. You and your students can create a rough draft on your SmartBoard of what you have learned. Older grades can then pick a student to type on the Wiki page. Please write on your Wiki once a week
 * 3) Adding Bling to Your Wiki: After you click edit on your Wiki page and you type your information you might want to add some Bling to your text. To Bling up your text highlight everything you typed then click the T on the Editing Toolbar. With this text tool you can choose font, change your text size, choose a text color and choose an alignment. Don't forget to click "apply style" and "save" on the Toolbar.

4. Picture Pizzazz-Digital Photography on your Wiki: Sometimes it is hard to get great big old honking big mega pixel pictures on a Wiki page. A great free site for making collages and putting special effects and text on pictures is [] (check out the Halloween effects.) At Picnik you can create a free account, make collages, put special effects on people’s faces (I love the vampire teeth) put stickers and stamps on pictures, save your pictures on your computer and then upload them to your wiki page. Wow, you could even upload your pictures and have your students edit and type on the pictures. Groovy! 5. If you want some extra fine Bling, Bling try []. There are several experts at Castlen that are already using this option. We will try this tool out a little more at our November 3rd meeting. 6. Clipart: Here are several safe clipart sites (I do not know if you can get to them at school.) Some of them have animated clipart. If you find clipart that you want to put on your page or on a handout you will need to save it first on you computer or USB drive. To put them on your Wiki you need to use the picture frame icon on the Wiki toolbar and upload them just like a digital camera picture. · [] · [] · []

Objectives for Wiki Work Schedule · November 3, Everyone meets on planning period with Mrs. Sessions for Wiki Tips · November 6, 7:30-9:30 Evan’s and Overstreet’s classes in the lab with Mrs. Sessions. Evans and Overstreet share on planning period with other teachers on their grade level. · November 13, 9:00-11:00 Hayes and Douglas classes in lab with Mrs. Sessions. Hayes and Douglas share on planning period with other teachers on their grade level. · November 20th, 7:30-9:30 Mahan and Morrison classes in lab or classrooms with Mrs. Sessions. Mahan and Morrison share on planning period with other teachers on their grade level. · Additional dates after January 1st Wiki Timeline October: Create Wiki pages, begin classroom journaling on your wiki page and upload pictures. November: Experiment with several grade level appropriate options for adding information to Wikis (photo editing, video clips, graphics and podcasts) December: Continue adding to Wiki (at least once a week), survive end of quarter, spend time with friends and family. January-May: Explore ways to display data on Wiki and begin to create data displays for Wikis. Add data displays to Wikis and continue journaling and adding media to Wikis.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Use our 21st century skills and equipment to communicate with students, parents and community stakeholders about our wonderful Castlen Garden!
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Engage students in the writing and editing process in an online environment.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Upload and display data in a manner that is visually appealing and easy to interpret.

Wiki Addresses <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">http://castlenock.wikispaces.com/ http://castlenoc1.wikispaces.com/ http://castlenoc2.wikispaces.com/ http://castlenoc3.wikispaces.com/ http://castlenoc4.wikispaces.com/ http://castlenoc5.wikispaces.com/