Wikis and Widgets

I was introduced to wikis back in January through my master's course. I came on board with Klein's pilot program soon after that and immediately implemented it in my classroom. The kids loved it! (They are eighth graders - they love anything new that they can do on a computer.) We culminated several assignments using the wiki for posting reflections and responding to peer's posts. In this workshop I learned about the intricacies of managing the wiki. I learned how to customize the navigation panel in which I quickly became very insecure when I discovered it to be a very "manual" process. I somehow lost one of my pages, but it really was not all that hard to find. Annet helped me by just going to Pages in Manage Wiki. I am excited about using wikis for in a more constructive way with the students! The wiki automatically orders the pages alphabetically. I want to be able to order in any order I choose. We also learned how to embed "legal" videos. There was much discourse about using Wikis in Plain English by linking to their site. These videos are short, fun to watch, and very informative. I had no idea my link to CommonCraft was a violation of copyright law. We have to be so careful - especially since we are role models for our students!