Farwell-Elementary-School - KR-Create a Class Wiki

Kathy Richardson-
These are some answers to some of your questions....
I would suggest that you start out with a wiki on Wikispaces- Read through Creating a Wiki
Use your Home Page for a "This is our class" page

Add

a few twinklers from the "Dress up your Wiki" page
Create a 'New Page' for the Reading around the Planet'

Read through "Our City" Podcasts and perhaps try a podcast
I might take a few photos of Farwell and your school- then add some student comments in text or audio

Create a 'New Page' for the Olympics'

Add some of the links for the NBC Olympic videos-
Discuss the sport then try the 'Olympic math pages'

Creating a Wiki- a Wiki that follows the steps to create itself created by Edgewood teachers

Go to Wiki basics for adding text, photos, objects etc.
Wiki basics: how to add a table:
- Consider a table for all of your students (initials or first names)
- Each of your student initials (or first names) will link to a new page- their own page
- You can embed or link student activities which they can use for practice
- Go to Scholastic or Thinkfinity for some student activities
  - Locate the activity and copy the URL-
    - paste thatURL into your wiki (don't forget the activity name and your directions!)
Create a New Page for a class project (i.e. Read Around the Planet)
- Tony Vincent imagined this Our City Podcast project
- Listen to the Podcasts in the Podplayer (upper right area)
- Go to "Teacher Resources" for his explanation of "How to Create a Podcast"
  - Go to Widget> Audio in the Wikispaces Text Editor box
  - Google has some gadgets that are podcast players
Consider the Olympics as a wiki page for your students-