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= Welcome! = =  =  This Wiki was created to promote networking within our parish to enhance student learning. You will find many great resources here - many suggested to us by fellow educators. We STRONGLY encourage you to join this WIki space and add your own resources! Our hope is that this becomes a great centralized resource for everyone to share and store their knowledge about effective teaching strategies, technology integration, and student learning. New to wikis? It's easy! Review this tutorial and you will be an active member quickly!

Hello, Mrs. Irma, I am editing the wiki page. Here goes! Ms. Monica Have you ever heard of podcasting? It is an audio broadcast of a speaker that can be subscribed to. It can also be a video and audio broadcast, and some people call this a vodcast. They are both fun to make and to listen to. To listen to an example one, click [|here.] or [|here.]

Yes, wiki spaces are great! I used pbwiki with my class last year, so I am not too familiar with this particular wiki (wikispaces.) They probably are pretty much the same, but how do the students add to the page without clicking on the edit tab? Anyway, I liked pbwiki because it gave EVERY student the oppportunity to respond to my question and to see all other responses. You will see how I used it in my ELA class, as a storage space for websites, or to put anything I wanted all the students to see. The students could also attach their Inspiration or Word document. The point is to get students to think, respond, share ideas, and accept each other's thoughts. The hardest thing was to teach them how to respond using correct English and grammar (we are NOT text messaging!) and how to respond offering each other positive feedback (not just hey, that's great, Tom!) When you create your wiki page, you set up a password or invite key; therefore, it is secure and can be accessed only by those you give the invite key to. After setting up your wiki page, introduce it to your students. Tell them that it is their web page and that it will be used to respond to teacher's questions. Give examples of how to respond to other classmates in a positive and constructive manner. Emphasize correct grammar and sentence structure. Most importantly, remind them that you can see everything that is written! After clicking on the link below, click on the **recent activity** tab on the left and click on any of the blue links to view activities. Click on comments to view the students' comments. Here is a link to my [|class's wiki page]. The invite key is student.

Ms. Monica

Thanks Irma

I hope to be able to use this some in my classes this year.

Carla