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What a great way for NSW teachers to find each other, network and share expertise. I love the way that you can search the wiki for the tool you are trying to use (e.g. edublogs, ning, twitter) and find like-minded professionals who have used it before. Networks like these are becoming increasingly important as we learn new pedagogies required to bring on the Digital Education Revolution in our classrooms.
Thanks for bringing us together Stu!
PLN Wordle (used on the staff wiki) by Cobannon – http://www.flickr.com/photos/cobannon/2983755525/
click, click, click…
After reading my blog comments I clicked through to Lee Mowbray’s Twitter account, then through to her shared blog Stepping Stones for teachers, and from there I found a link to a wikispace called Cool Tools for Schools.
The Cool tools for schools wiki stores information about a wide range of useful web-based tools, sorted by category (video tools, writing tools, image tools, quiz and poll tools etc.)
I love expanding my professional learning network! Thanks Lee
Posted by kmcg2375 in Uncategorized on August 31, 2008
For anyone who came to my presentation last Wednesday – this is a pretty good introductory video on how to create a wiki using PB wiki. It is 10mins long, but covers all the basics.
I’ve just finished creating a new wiki, this time for my Year 9 class, and this time it is one that I am actually going to use!
I’ve created two other wikis before – one for my HSC class, which I made using wikispaces. My Year 12s were struggling with the blog as it was, so the wiki never really got a start there. The other wiki I made was a general purpose one, which I imagined all of my classes would contribute to, on every subject that they studied. This way all of my classes, from years 7-12, over time would come to access this kind of mega-source of information. What a plan! What a community! But I decided not to run with the idea, because I don’t think the students really will go for the idea…I’m not convinced it’ll be so much fun adding to the site unless you really know the others that are making it too.
I’ve added a couple of YouTube videos on using PB wiki to my vodpod (click here or in the right-hand side bar). Anyone else out there using a wiki ATM? What is (not) working for you?