Feb 11 2009
Inservice Day: Wiki presentation
Wikis and Collaboration: Using Wikispaces as a platform for your classes and other strategies for effective teacher to teacher collaboration
1.75 hours
Presented during Inservice Day February 13, 2009 by Amy Sanders and Catie Wooten
Explore wikis being used in the school – 15 minutes – Catie
Find at least 2 purposes that could be met by a wiki for your class – 15 minutes
Collaboration: Strategies that work – 15 minutes – Amy
Time to work – 1 hour
Break up into groups: find common purposes (5 minutes)
ex: setting up a wiki for my class
Educator’s link
embedding presentations into a wiki
calendars/assignments in wikis
Using Google forms in wikis
Using wikis for student contributions
other
Summary/ Conclusions – 15 minutes – Catie
Share something you were able to do with your first partner.
What is something you’ll continue to use? What support do you need to be able to be successful?
Evaluation:
Please fill out Google Form – Engagement, usefulness, my presentation/helpfulness
