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Welcome to Emily Parker's Technology Presentation!

**Meet the Presenter ** Hi, I'm Emily Parker. I teach 7th grade Social Studies. I graduated from Miami University in 2011 with a Bachelor's degree in Social Studies Education. I met my fiancee, Taylor, at Miami. We are getting married August 8, 2015! I am originally from Dayton but have lived in Lakewood for three years now. This is my third semester at an Instructional Technology Master's student. I enjoy finding ways to implement technology into my classroom and helping others do the same. In the future, I want to get involved with instructional design or instructional technology at the university level.

**Topic ** The topic I chose for my presentation is the use of Wikispaces! You are all becoming familiar with how to use Wikispaces but how can YOU use it in your classroom? Through this presentation I hope to provide you with some practical applications for Wikispaces in any content area. Wikispaces is a platform to create collaborative websites. Like all wikis, users can edit the content on the page. In this presentation, I will focus on Wikispaces classrooms. Wikispaces launched their classroom pages in 2013. Some features of Wikispaces for education are discussion boards, projects, a calendar, and progress monitoring. Wikispaces lets your students collaborate online. They can create or edit pages or post on discussions. They can also use it as a portfolio to keep their files in one places. Wikispaces is great for teachers because it allows for a safe social network, uses project-based learning, creates distance learning opportunities and creates online learning communities. Wikispaces is very easy to use and times little time to learn.

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**Wikispaces Tutorials ** Below you will find some videos that will show you how to set up a Wikispaces page and other features of Wikispaces for the classroom. media type="custom" key="27189710" This is a tutorial of how to create a wiki on Wikispaces. It will also explain how to set up events, create projects and start discussions.

The second tutorial shows you some of the different settings of Wikispaces classroom. It will show you how to change the theme of your wiki page. media type="custom" key="27189664"

**Uses ** While the possibilities are endless, here are a few ideas I came up with on how to use Wikispaces in your content area. In addition, this video will show you how I have used it in my classroom. There are so many Wikis out there. Here is an example of a few that I thought were exemplary.

__Class Website__- Any content area teacher can create a class website using Wikispaces. Class news, information, projects, homework, events, and discussion can all be put on the wiki. It can provide one place for students and parents to go to find everything they need for class. Here is a quick tour of Wikispaces classroom.

__Student website__- Any content area could use Wikispaces for students to create their own page. On their page they could post reflections, discussion and submit assignments.

__Portfolio__- Students or teachers can use Wikispaces to keep all files, images and documents. It can showcase work throughout the year and provide a way of summative assessment. Teachers can also use it as a portfolio to share with other educators or use in interviews.

__Student created textbook__- Any content area can have students research information and then add it to the wiki page. When all the information is together it creates a page where students can go to find information.

<span style="color: #4e3aa8; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__Collaborative Space__- Any content area can set up a page to share resources. You can collaborate with teachers and classrooms around the world! Teachers can set up team pages for assignments where students can post their assignment, collaborate and discuss.

<span style="color: #4e3aa8; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__Webquest__- Any content area can create a page where students go to investigate different internet resources to solve a problem.

<span style="color: #4e3aa8; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">media type="custom" key="27177088" align="right" <span style="color: #4e3aa8; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__Social Studies__- Organize all the links to primary and secondary source documents in one place.

<span style="color: #4e3aa8; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__Math__- The GeoGebra widget inserts math problems into your page. The article below demonstrates how to insert formulas on your Wikispaces page.

<span style="color: #4e3aa8; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__Language Arts__- Create a page to "publish" student stories or poems. Connect with another classroom and be "pen pals".

<span style="color: #4e3aa8; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__Science__- Assign different biomes to study and have students create a page about their assigned biome.

**<span style="color: #8c257f; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">Articles **
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 1.5;">Reivew of Wikispaces
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 1.5;">6 Ways to use wikispaces in your classroom
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 1.5;">The Wiki as Knowledge Respository
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 1.5;">Math Formulas on wikispaces

**<span style="color: #8c257f; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">Pedagogical Considerations ** <span style="color: #4e3aa8; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Wikispaces fits seamlessly into the TPACK model. For example, as students are collaborating in their space about the history of the Romans they are also learning important technology skills. Wikispaces reaches the redefinition level of the SAMR because before students could not hold discussions in real time outside of class. It allows for teachers to connect to students while school is not in session. Wikispaces completely redefines the learning environment. It takes it outside the classroom and beyond.


 * ~ <span style="color: #4e3aa8; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">NETS-S Standard ||~ <span style="color: #4e3aa8; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Wikispaces Application ||
 * <span style="color: #4e3aa8; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">1. Creativity and Innovation || <span style="color: #4e3aa8; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Students create new pages to teach their classmates about a topic. ||
 * <span style="color: #4e3aa8; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">2. Communication and Collaboration || <span style="color: #4e3aa8; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Students communicate through discussion boards and collaborate on pages they edit together. ||
 * <span style="color: #4e3aa8; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">3. Research and information fluency || <span style="color: #4e3aa8; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Students create a textbook of the information about a topic and compile it into a wiki. ||
 * <span style="color: #4e3aa8; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">4. Critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making || <span style="color: #4e3aa8; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Students organize their research project on a wiki page including the research, drafts and final product. ||
 * <span style="color: #4e3aa8; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">5. Digital Citizenship || <span style="color: #4e3aa8; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Students practice digital citizenship by displaying appropriate behavior on discussion boards and citing all sources used on a page they created ||
 * <span style="color: #4e3aa8; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">6. Technology operations and concepts || <span style="color: #4e3aa8; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Students develop skills to edit pages and add and create content while working on content area projects. ||

**<span style="color: #8c257f; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">Where to purchase or acquire ** <span style="color: #4e3aa8; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">One of the best parts about Wikispaces is that it is absolutley FREE for k-12 educators! If you are here then you already know how to find www.wikispaces.com. To sign up for a classroom site make sure you mark k-12 education when you are signing up. For business, higher education and private users it is $1,000/year for 100 user accounts. More pricing information can be found here.