1. Mohamed AminEmbi
Wiki: Collaborating Learning Tool

2. What is Wiki?
Wikis permit asynchronous communication & group collaboration across the Internet.
Wikis provide users with both author & editor privileges; the overall organization of contributions can be edited as well as the content itself.
3. What is Wiki?
Wikis are able to incorporate sounds, movies, & pictures;
Wiki can be a simple tool to create multimedia presentations & simple digital stories.
4. Why use Wiki?
A wiki is a web communication & collaboration tool that can be used to engage students in learning with others within a collaborative environment.
Faculty can use wikis to collaborate on projects, whether editing a textbook, preparing a journal article, or assembling a syllabus or reading list.
Wiki-enabled projects can provide various levels of site access & control to team members, offering a fine-tuning element that enhances the teaching & learning experience.
5. Possible Applications
Students can use a wiki to develop research projects, with the wiki serving as ongoing documentation of their work.
Students can add summaries of their thoughts from the prescribed readings, building a collaborative annotated bibliography on a wiki.
6. Possible Applications
A wiki can be used for publishing course resources like syllabi & handouts, & students can edit & comment on these directly for all to see.
Wikis can be used to map concepts.They are useful for brainstorming, & editing a given wiki topic can produce a linked network of resources.
7. Possible Applications
A wiki can be used as a presentation tool in place of conventional software, & students are able to directly comment on & revise the presentation content.
Wikis are tools for group authoring - using a wiki pulls the group members together & enables them to build & edit the document on a single, central wiki page.
8. GET STARTED WITH WIKISPACES
9. STEP 1
10. Go to:http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers
11. STEP 2
Sign up/register
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Insert USERNAME, PASSWORD and key in a valid EMAIL address to which you have access to at this summit
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Select a NAME for your wiki. This will also determine the web address of your wiki so choose carefully!
Click YES
Under Wiki Permissions, select PRIVATE
(free for educators)
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Then, click JOIN
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13. Next, you need to access the email account you entered above. Wikispaces will have sent you a conrmation email. Click on the link in that message to conrm your email address.
14. STEP 3
Start editing Wikispaces
15. You will then be taken to your wikispace. The rst page you see with be a getting started' guide.Take some time to explore the links on this guide.
16. Once you exit the getting started' guide, you can begin editing the wiki. To work on your rst page, click EDIT at the top right and corner of the page.
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Use the EDITOR tool bar to change the font (bold, italics, underline) type or color, add bullets, hyperlinks or images.
17. a) Add hyperlink
Select the text you want to hyperlink. Then click on Link
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EXTERNAL LINK. This option will allow you to link the selected text to a website outside your wiki. You will need to type in the URLto the website you are linking to.
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An Insert Link' pop up box will appear.
You can either link theselected text to a page on your wiki. To do this, you must rst createanother page. Every page you create will appear under PAGE NAME'.
Then, add link
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19. a) Add file
Click File at your editor toolbar
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20. Choose INSERT FILE tab
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Click on UPLOAD FILE.
Then, choose a le located on your computer and click open.
21. b) Add new page
Select NEW PAGE' from the top left hand corner of your wiki.
Insert a name for your new page .
Then Click Create. You will then betaken to the new page. Once you click SAVE the name of the new page will be added to the navigation bar on the left.
22. c) Embed a widget
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on the new page you have just added, Click EDIT and click on the embed a widget icon
23. Choose the video source you like
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24. STEP 4
Discussion board
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To creat new topic, select DISCUSSION tab
Then click on NEW POST
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Then, click Post to start the discussion.
26. STEP 5
Add and manage members
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First, clik MANAGE WIKI
To updated or add your wiki Member and etc. just go to people and choose with task you want.
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Wiki permission
Choose eitherprotected or private
28. THE END