Create

==This page can serve as a starting point for creating. Be sure to think about your objective: what you want students to know and be able to do, and how they can show you that they have this understanding by synthesizing the content and creating a new product. == ==Refer back to our Explore page - which has scattered examples and resources. ==

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 * 1) Go to this link to receive an ad-free EDUCATOR account: [|Educator Wikispaces Account.]
 * 2) Choose a username and password.
 * 3) Choose a name for your wikispaces. Your address will become: "[chosen name].wikispaces.com."
 * 4) You are ready to begin! [|Take the tour.]
 * 5) Or you can try the [|Wiki Teacher's Walkthrough].

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 =Tips on creating within the wiki: =
 * 1) It works like a simple webpage. You can write text, upload pictures and create hyperlinks for your wiki.
 * 2) Upload documents.
 * 3) Embed videos.
 * 4) Embed widgets. ([|Voki],[|Xtranormal videos], [|Toondoo cartoons], [|Wordles],[|Google Docs] )
 * 5) Keep a list of links.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Assign and post projects. ([|Doodle])
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Encourage students to practice at home.
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Hold a discussion. (Students must have their own Wiki accounts. [|Now you can set them up for them]!)
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Organize your classes! Keep everything together in one place. Post homework, powerpoints and even student work!

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1. How do I write text, upload pictures and hyperlink?

 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Click on "Edit this page." It works pretty much like a Word document.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">To post pictures, click on the PALM TREE button on the Wiki toolbar. Upload a picture and insert.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">To create a hyperlink, highlight the text you want to make into a link and click on the EARTH button on the Wiki toolbar.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Enter the appropriate url. Choose if it's a Wiki link (you can create new ones here) or an external link (internet address).
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Lock/Unlock the page.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2. How do I save documents?

 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">To post documents, click on the PALM TREE button in the Wiki toolbar. Upload a document (.doc, .pdf) and insert.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Give your documents meaningful names because that's how they will be identified in your wikispace.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3. How do I embed videos? (VERY important!)

 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Find a video]. ([|YouTube], [|TeacherTube], [|Daily Motion], etc.)
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Find the embed code. (A big long garbled mess beginning and ending with a "<" and a ">")
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Copy this code to the clipboard.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Click on the TV button in the Wiki toolbar.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Choose "Video."
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Click the program you're using.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Paste the embed code.
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Save.
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The media will be a gray box in the edit area, and will only appear once you click on the SAVE button in the Wiki toolbar.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4. How do I embed widgets?

 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Find the embed code of the widget you'd like to embed.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Click on the TV button in the Wiki toolbar.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Everything listed there is a widget, an application that can be embedded in your Wikispace.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Click on the corresponding application.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Choose the program you're using. (If you don't know, go to the bottom of the list to "Other HTML")
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Paste the embed code.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Save.
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The media will be a gray box in the edit area, and will only appear once you click on the SAVE button in the Wiki toolbar.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Let's try [|Google Docs]. (You'll need to set up a Google account if you do not already have one.)

<span style="color: #2dff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Utilities of interest
[|Zamzar] can help capture those web-based videos as well as convert a wide range of file types from one format to another.
 * File Conversion**

[|Jing] will enable you to capture all or part of your screen in a still shot, or capture you screen in action (thereby creating a brief video). It is free!
 * Screen Capture**

[|Jumpcut] - Allows free, online video editing [|Picnik] and [|SnipShot] provide free photo editing
 * Web-based Video and Photo Editing**

[|Animoto] [|Cool Iris] [|Tag Galaxy]
 * Just for fun**

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<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Effective instruction: Think about these elements of effective instruction when designing your lessons, eloquently stated by Cherice Montgomery and is available here: <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"> [|Elements of Effective Instruction-Cherice Montgomery.pdf]

1) Capture attention

2) Activate prior knowledge

3) Make sense • Chunking • Patterning (Graphic organizers, visuals) • Scaffolding (Pre-, during, post activities) • Sequencing (Build understanding) • Spiraling (Multiple passes through information)

4) Create meaning • Collaborating • Contextualizing with the 5 Cs • Creating personally meaningful products • Personalizing • Relating content, people, other subjects

5) Encourage involvement • Asking students to think critically and creatively • Engaging students in cooperative, project-based learning • Planning for multiple intelligences and learning styles • Using multisensory methods and materials

6) Consider closure • Summarizing • Reflecting • Connecting • Extending • Previewing

7) Give "show what you know" homework

8) Help them discover their questions