Wikis Re-Visited: How Teachers Are Using Wikis
Today's Topics:
Wikis Re-Visited: How Teachers Are Using Wikis
Tech Tip: Creating Online "To Do" Lists
- How are wikis transforming teaching and learning in 2007?
- What are some effective ways to use wikis in your classroom?
Wild About Wikis
David Jakes explains the educational benefits of wikis and lists some wiki-creation resources. He also includes an “Eleven Wikis to Watch” list and examples of teachers using wikis in the classroom.
Uses and Potentials of Wikis in the Classroom
S. Pixy Ferris and Hilary Wilder explain why wikis are a perfect fit for the way today’s digital native students prefer to learn.
Wiki in a K-12 Classroom
The WikEd staff provides brief descriptions of seven ways that wikis are effectively incorporated in K-12 classrooms.
Tech Tip – Creating Online “To Do” Lists
It can be a challenge to keep track of all those “to do” lists scribbled on sticky notes! Two free online tools make quick work of storing and organizing all of your lists in a central location, and makes them accessible from any Internet-connected device. Here are two popular sites to try:
BackPack
Backpack allows you to make pages with to-do lists, notes, files, and images. It also features a Calendar and Reminders that can be sent via email or to your cell phone at predetermined times.
Remember the Milk
An easy-to-use tool which allows you to print individual lists or a weekly calendar. Tasks can be prioritized and multiple lists created.
Announcements
FREE (Federal Resources for Educational Excellence) Site Redesigned
A new "subject map" on the FREE site shows more than 100 topics and the number of resources for each. The goal of FREE remains the same: to make it easier for you to find more than 1500 teaching and learning resources available from the federal government.
What Our Students Are Saying...
About the online course Digital Media and Visual Literacy:
"This course is for the educator with an interest in digital video editing. If you want to make quality video productions, this is the class for you. Make some time in your busy schedule to take this important and necessary step to better videos. Books and references are nice, but this class makes your get your hands dirty. If you get involved, the learning improves."
~ Educational Technologist from Ohio
"... the flexibility that working online offers. The readings helped tremendously to clear up some misconceptions I had about copyright, video editing, etc. The resources provided helped tremendously with my classes."
~ Computer Teacher/Tech Coordinator - Reading, Massachusetts
"I have realized that using digital media in the class is a magnificent motivational tool. It allows students to perform and perfect essential life skills such as problem solving, responsibility, cooperation, planning ahead, following a timeline, and perseverance just to name a few."
~ Elementary Teacher - Taichung, Taiwan
Call University of Wisconsin-Stout Online Professional Development (715) 642-0209 if you have questions. UW-Stout is an "international-student- friendly" program.
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