Wiki+Challenges

media type="youtube" key="ihbL8ewkP-o" height="344" width="425"**Challenge #1: Edit your T21 wiki page** Each of you has a page on the T21 wiki. This will be your page for sharing updates throughout the year on how you are using technology. We’ll put you in small groups to work together to learn more about Wikispaces. Let’s get started using it.

1) You should have received a wiki invitation email from Tom. Click on the link below RSVP. 2) Once you have joined, click on your page’s link (//see left menu//)and then click “Edit this Page” 3) Write a paragraph that says a bit about what you are hoping to gain from the T21 program a. Set the title of your paragraph as “Heading 1” text b. Use bold, italics, and colored text at various points in your paragraph c. Save when you are finished 4) Below your paragraph, start a list of your favorite links to teacher resources. Add three links to external Web sites. Create a “Heading 1” title for this list. 5) Below your list of links, add links to your groupmates’ pages. Create a “Heading 2” title for this. a. //Hint: Look for the Insert Hyperlinks button// 6) Find an image on the Web. Add this image to your wiki page. a. //Hint: Click on Insert Image and using the bottom box in the pop up menu// b. //Hint: You can get the URL for an image by right clicking the image and choosing “Copy Image Location”// 7) Help your groupmates. Make sure that everyone is up to speed. 8) Go to one of your groupmate’s pages. Read their paragraph about what he/she is hoping to gain from this program. Click on his/her discussion page. Leave a response. 9) Go to the Weekly Reports Sign Up page. Sign up for a week to be responsible for posting a report.


 * Challenge #2: Create your own Wiki…**

1) Sign up for your new wiki at [|www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers] a. Choose a name for your wiki that’s memorable, easy to type, and says a little bit to kids about what the wiki is 2) Create two new pages for your wiki 3) Invite your group members to join your wiki (//Hint: Look in Manage Space//) 4) Stop and help your group members, make sure that everyone is up to speed 5) Switch back to the T21 wiki and post a short 1-paragraph answer to this question on your page: a. How do you plan on using your wiki in your course? Will you have one wiki for all of your classes? One wiki for each course you teach? One wiki for each class? Will your wiki be a content-delivery tool? A space for individual online portfolios? A space for collaborative projects? A space for discussion? A space for collaborative note-taking? 6) Visit one of your group member’s pages. On the discussion page, post a response to his/her ideas.


 * Challenge #3: More advanced Wiki action**

1) Upload a document to one of your pages 2) Upload an image on one of your pages 3) Embed a Table of Contents widget on one of your pages (//Hint: Create three lines of Heading1 text on your page so you can see the table of contents//) 4) Edit your navigation bar (//Can you figure out what the default widget on the nav. bar does?//) 5) Embed a teachertube video onto your page (//Hint: look for a helpful widget)// 6) Stop and help your group members, make sure that everyone is up to speed