Actively Engage Your Students and Keep Parents Informed

By Lynne Butkiewicz

Overview

Wikis are used for a variety of purposes:

Collaboration and communication

Reduce email overload

Have an archive of the work that has been done

Create and electronic portfolio for you students

Make Lessons Interesting

Active Lessons

Sharing ideas

Games

Replace worksheets

Working with friends

Step 1 go to http://www.wikispaces.com/

and create an account

Step 2 Select a user name and password and enter an email address – click

public

Step 3 – you will see Welcome to Your New Wiki –Table of Contents of pages and information that will help

you create a wiki site

Step 4 – After you have logged in, you can create a new page. On the top of every page, over to the

right there is an edit button that you can click on.

Step 5 –Editing Tab Page: The next screen is a welcome to your wiki

where you can add or delete information on that page

Step 6 – DISCUSSION TAB PAGE: Discussion page allows people to

comment on your posts.

Step 7 – HISTORY TAB PAGE: The history page shows what changes were made to the page, when and

by whom.

Step 8 – NOTIFY ME PAGE: You can be notified by email when a page

changes or all pages change you can chose.

Step 9 - CREATE A NEW PAGE: You can add a page by clicking on the

new page tab on the left side column of the website.

Step 10 -http://help.wikispaces.com/Teacher

+Helpclick on the link above for additional

information on setting us a wiki page if you want to get a head start.