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JANUARY 2012
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Wikis without tabs
If you are still adjusting to our January interface upgrade, this post will help you work more easily with the new page buttons. Get some tips.
Featured Wiki: Educational Blogging
Linda Yollis started the Educational-Blogging wiki in November of 2009.
1. Briefly describe your group, your wiki, and what you use it to do:
I created the Educational Blogging Wiki in 2009 as a resource for teachers who are interested in having a classroom blog. The wiki includes class videos explaining the benefits of blogging, how to compose a quality comment, and the importance of the Creative Commons license. I chronicle the steps I've taken to teach my students how to compose quality comments and have tips to help teachers develop their own online communities. Included are links to other educational bloggers and sample posts organized by subject matter. I hope that teachers will find the wiki helpful and will open up their classrooms through educational blogging.
2. Besides the Edit button, which wiki feature is your favorite?
The widget button is a great feature. PowerPoints, calendars, videos, slide shows, maps, polls, and spreadsheets can easily be embedded in the wiki. Selecting a widget and pasting in the html code makes adding web 2.0 tools a snap!
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A Message from James
Adam and I spent January going back to school. We met with teachers, directors of technology, principals, and superintendents across California at everything from small private schools to public districts with tens of thousands of students. While we talk with educators every day over the phone and via email, nothing beats sitting down and digging into the challenges, joys, and pains of teaching and learning face-to-face.
Here are some of our most vivid takeaways from these conversations:
Educational institutions in this country are tremendously diverse. As an example, nearly half of the K-12 districts in this country have fewer than 1,000 students, yet more than 25 districts have over 100,000 students! Think about that the next time you hear a generalization about K-12 education in the US!
Technology alone is not the answer. While we all dream of the single game-changing application that will revolutionize education overnight, real change takes time and will happen on many fronts at once.
Every minute a teacher spends apart from their students is a minute that is lost forever. The technologies that transform classrooms will give those minutes back, freeing teachers from endless forms, thousands of mouse clicks, and digging through impossible interfaces for the information they need to run their classes.
Stay tuned as we put these lessons to work!
What will you do with your next wiki?
Good idea: Keep an ongoing list of successful Valentine's Day ideas.
Bad idea: Keep an ongoing list of Valentine's Day failures... and learn nothing.
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