Technology+Workshop+for+Teachers

code Wikispaces are just webpages that more than one person can edit. Creating a wikispace is easy, and it's a great way to communicate with students. Below are a some links to show examples of different ways I've used my "Bendermath" wiki in the past and some ideas that I have for the future...

Quick Survey for Feedback Wikis provide a space online to get student feedback quickly and easily. To do this, each student must be a member of the wikispace After clicking the link above, choose the "discussion" tab to see the student input. This is one aspect of wikispaces that I intend on using much more this year. One idea I have is "Math Conversation of the Week."

Links to Worksheets Worksheets may be embedded into your wikispace for easy access.

Links to Sites Wikispaces can serve as portals which direct students to the interactive sites you want them to use.

Control Access to Information... Pages can be created and "hidden" until you want the students to see the information.

Catalog of Video Resources Like "Link to Sites" above, a wiki can be a good way to organize video resources for students to view 24/7.

Integral Part of Activity This wikispace page shows how to integrate wikis and google docs (a whole other presentation...)

Embed Glogster Projects Glogs (another "whole other presentation" for another day) can be easily embedded into a wiki making it quite interactive! This is going to be my area of "exploration" for myself this year. Here's another embedded glog.... EMBEDDED GLOG

Make Your Own Online Textbook As you collect more and more good online resources for the topics in your course, you can use your wiki to organize them into an online textbook.

Differentiate Instruction and Practice There are often many different sites and activities that will teach and/or enhance a lesson on a particular topic. Also, there are usually various sites that will provide students opportunities to practice. Giving students some choice in which activities they pursue can be much easier to orchastrate with a little thought and everything organized in a wiki.

Managing Your Wiki There are lots of different ways to set permissions on pages within your wikispace; therefore students can only edit pages for which you allow them editting privileges.

Future Plans I really want to work on using my wikispace as on online collaboration site for students. Some ideas I have in that line of thought, but haven't fully developed yet, are...

Creating Your Own Wiki This link will guide you through the initial process of creating an educational wikispace.

Other Resources 50 Ways to Use Wikis for a More Collaborative and Interactive Classroom Wiki in a K-12 Classroom