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 * Welcome! **
 * Wiki Workshop for Educators ** ** For: K-12 Educators **
 * Instructor: Debra Morris **
 * Welcome to our workshop for educators. This workshop is designed to promote using technology to enrich your classrooms, engage students and provide easy access to your classroom news, assignments and resources. The design of the workshop is intended to address the various skill levels of participants. However, a basic knowledge of microsoft word and email is necessary. Participants will be engaged in whole group activities along with small collaborative groups. In addition, participants will be provided with support, opportunity for choice and time for networking with peers. Guest speakers will enhance the vision of application of this technology tool for classroom use. Please note there are some simple pre-workshop task included in the agenda that will need to be completed prior to the workshop. **


 * Goal: **
 * Participants will leave the workshop with a working classroom wiki for which they are able to do the following: **
 * ** invite members **
 * ** add links, videos, widgets, photos and documents **
 * ** manage their wiki **
 * ** create pages and navigation options **
 * ** create additional wikis **
 * reference many resources to enhance their classroom instruction

Please take a look at this voice thread I created to introduce you to your graphic organizer.

h[|ttp://voicethread.com/share/3083315/]

__ Overview: __ __ Topic: __

This workshop will help educators understand and utilize Wikis in their classrooms.

__ Population: __

This professional workshop will be provided for all grade level teachers within the school system.

__ Outcomes: __

Students will create a wiki page for classroom use. Students will embed resources within their wiki such as; pictures, post, video and links. Students will invite members to join their wiki. Students will create navigation options for their wiki.

__ Gaps: __

**Very few teachers in our school system know what a wiki is or the value of incorporating them into the curriculum.**

What do these learners already know?

This group of teachers have basic computer skills and have experience with multimedia tools such as email and facebook.

What do you want them to learn?

This workshop will provide teachers with the knowledge they need to create their own wiki, teach students how to create wikis and equip their classrooms with learning opportunities that engage in collaboration through wiki use.

__** Agenda **__


 * Pre-WorkshopTraining Activity: **


 * Participants will visit a teachers classroom to observe him/her utilizing their wiki with students
 * Email the following to your school email address so that you will have access to these during the workshop.
 * Create a short document in Microsoft word introducing yourself. Include your educational background, hobbies and family information.
 * Upload a photograph (must not be no more than 150 by 150 pixels) of yourself and send it to your email in an attachment.
 * Select any appropriate video clip you would like to include in your wiki for your parents and students to view.
 * Select two resourceful websites you would like to include in your wiki for parents and students to reference. Email these URL’s to yourself.
 * Create a Gmail account (see pre-workshop training page of this wiki)

Begin brainstorming what you would like to do with your wiki and questions you have. Post a discussion comment in your gmail account. This should be a reflection on wikis, a resource, a question about wikis or a statement of what you would like to know more about concerning wikis.

Welcome-Introductions-Agenda
 * Opening Activity: (30 minutes) **
 * The instructor will introduce herself and wiki vocabulary through her wiki.
 * Participants will introduce themselves.
 * View key points the instructor has obtained from the pre-training discussion board.
 * Statement of goal for the day.
 * Extra support link in addition to what sources I am supplying: A-Z on wiki http://gettingtrickywithwikis.wikispaces.com/Change+wiki+name


 * Exploration and Setup: (30 minutes) **
 * Participants will explore the different types of wikis found on the resource page of this wiki. (Instructor shows on mimio board)
 * View Tutorial
 * Participants will establish a wiki space account.

__**Purpose of Tutorial Website**__ Below you will find a screencast tutorial and a URL for the Tutorial for Wikis. I created this screencast for the purpose of helping guide you in the production of your authentic assessment for this workshop. You will need to keep this to reference in the future. This tutorial will help you sign up, name your wiki, and set your wiki as private etc. It will also give you step by step instruction in how to create your home page text. There are additional tutorials throughout this workshop experience. I know you will find these tutorials helpful as you enter the world of wikis! media type="custom" key="17720968"

The URL for this Tutorial is: []


 * Guest Speakers: (30 minutes) **
 * Three guest teachers will present their classroom wikis and detail how they utilized them in the classroom.
 * Question and answer session for these teachers.


 * Learning Wiki: (1 hour) **
 * Presentation of wiki video
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 * Things you may want to include in your wiki http://help.wikispaces.com/Editing+a+Page
 * Explore the designs and options for the look of your wiki
 * Use the resource page in this wiki to explore the many wikis that have already been created in order to generate ideas.


 * Getting started Document: View the voice tutorial below for getting started with editing.




 * Break **


 * Creation of Personal Wiki: (1 hour) **
 * Tutorial on creating your wiki and options




 * Brainstorming and collaboration- Participants will work in groups of four for support and collaboration purposes. Groups have been predetermined randomly using the criteria of groups consist of the same grade level teachers. These groups will be posted on the mimio. Each participant will have a lap top provided for their use. Utilize this time to plan out your wiki ideas. Discuss with your collaborative group ideas for pages, themes, color schemes etc. Use the paper provided to jot or sketch your ideas.
 * Individual creation of wiki- Create your wiki. You may reference your handout or the link provided under creating wiki on this agenda page.

Include the following: Theme Color Cut and paste a Logo for your wiki Create and name your wiki pages You may collaborate with your group (peer support, questions, idea sharing)

Lunch (1 hour)

The following sessions of adding items to your wiki will be for **30 minutes**


 * Adding documents and photos: **
 * Tutorial on adding documents and links
 * [[file:link.docx]]
 * Tutorial on adding photos to your wiki -Adding Images
 * [[file:images.docx]]
 * Participants will add their personal photo, links and document completed in pre-training (sent to your school email)
 * Participants will add their personal photo, links and document completed in pre-training (sent to your school email)


 * Embedding Widgets: **
 * Tutorial on Widgets




 * Participants will add their video to their wiki


 * Permissions for access to your wiki, managing and Invitations: **
 * Permission and Invitation tutorial


 * Participants will set permissions to private
 * Send invitations to your instructor and two of your fellow co-workers
 * Managing


 * Breakout session: (45 minutes) **
 * Participants will break out into groups of four. These groups will be different from the previous collaborative groups. The instructor will post these groups on mimio. Groups will include teachers from different grade levels of instruction.
 * Participants will utilize this time to collaborate with their small group, share their created wikis, offer ideas and brain storm new ideas.


 * Evaluation: (15 minutes) **
 * Rubric completion: Remember participation in these two rubrics is part of your individual rubric score.

[|rubricmultimediaworkshopwikiproduction.docx]

Click on the link below to participate in the evaluation for this workshop.

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