Wikis

tocmedia type="custom" key="4373709" =What is a Wiki? = [| Wiki Walk-Through]

Wikispaces...
Want to create a classroom wiki? [|Wikispaces is offering teachers free sites]. You can make your site totally open to the world, have it open but setup for only your students to edit it, or make it private. Wikispaces will set up student accounts so no email is needed, although the students can certainly have set up their own accounts if they have an email address.If you create a wikispace and forget to make it ad-free for education, follow these steps1) Go to your space2) Click "Manage Space"3) Click "Subscription"4) At the bottom of the page, under "Request a complimentary upgrade to Plus for K-12 education" click "Request yours now" 

 Ways to Use wikis in your classroom...
States of Matter Wiki Murder Mystery Case 6th Grade Culture Project 50 States Project Cyber Chickens: 5th Grade Classroom Wiki  2nd Grade Classroom Wiki Go West! (Research Project Wiki) The Wright Three (Book Wiki)

 Create Accounts for Students
- especially younger students who don't have email accounts.

1. Log in to your wiki and click on Manage Wiki, then click User Creator. Follow the instructions given. 2. Select the wiki to add the users to. 3. Create with a list of usernames, email addresses (if they have them, if not just leave them out) and passwords using the following format. You can use a spreadsheet, or type them as below using comma separated text. 4. Please make sure that user names are at least 3 characters long. Letters, numbers, underscores and dashes are allowed. 5. Please make sure that passwords are least 6 characters long. 6. Click through the instructions given on the page. Wikispaces will tell you if you make a mistake. The main problem will be finding a unique user name -suggest you use a combination of numbers and letters to make these.
 * user1,email1@address.com,password1
 * user2,email2@address.com,password2

Add a Table of Contents
At the top of the page type in the code - When setting out your page highlight the heading, select the type of heading you want from the popup menu - If you choose heading1 for your first heading, then heading 2 for the next - heading 2 will be indented when you view the table of contents

Wiki "How-To's"
Wikispaces Practice Pages (This is the site we used to practice inserting links, images, files, and embed code. It also includes directions to remind you how to do each of those things.) Getting Tricky With Wikis (A site with directions on how to do both simple and fancier things with your wikis)