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Welcome to our new wiki!

Ideally, all of these bold topics should be their own page, i'm working on it, and you may wish to add things in that way, just play around, and any help that you could give would be great!

MapTeach
MapTeach

Using Digital Video Media
http://video.discovery.com/ Full episodes from Discovery/TLC/Animal Planet. It's on a rotating basis, so things change every couple of weeks or so. Programs are split into chapters for easy navigation, and no commercials

http://www.pbs.org/teachers/ Streaming video from pbs, including Nova, and American Experience. Free resource, but I don't know if we can support streaming at all sites.

The presenters mostly spoke about Discovery Online, and it is not free, well most of it isn't free. An audience member brought up http://www.brainpop.com which I have tried, it's pretty cool, I think you can get a 5 day trial for free, but it is not free either.

Elementary Computer Projects

Voices of the World Project http://www.votw.wikispaces.com Kids get a monthly assignment and a web2.0 tool to complete it with. You can view other classes work from around the world, and upload your own. It is run by a teacher, and she doesn't put every single entry up, just the best.

Animoto http://animoto.com create slide shows with annimation/transitions and music for free and realtively easy. For use on a blog or elsewhere. Clips that are under 60 seconds are free, then you export them to wherever you would want them, say a class website or blog.

Voki http://www.voki.com Students, and teachers too I guess, can create avatars to use for projects where anonymity is best, you can record voice and then export.

Voice Thread http://www.ed.voicethread.com Closed to all except teachers, administrators and students. Users can post pages, record dialogue to go with, post movies, and then make comments about others, as well as get comments about their own work. World wide, but safe and teacher has a lot of control as to what gets posted and what not.

Creating Podcasts with GarageBand

Blogging
Try http://www.blogger.com to make your own free bog. I am going to make a practice one, http://caitlinnmw.blogspot.com

Creating a Wiki

Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0
I saw this article on Slate, you might take a look at it, just for background knowledge. http://www.slate.com/id/2184487

Social Bookmarking Sites
I've used del.icio.us for a while, since the Apple people during inservice talked about it. Any ideas on using it with students? You can check out mine here http://del.icio.us/caitlinnmw

Thoughts on Privacy/ Web Safety
How do we protect our students, but at the same time, let them be a part of the web? Any thoughts about pictures? movies? podcasts?

Educational Funding
http://www.donorschoose.org/homepage/main.html This is a pretty cool sit where you can propose a project and then upload it, donors can browse through projects and give you money if they like your idea. Not sure what the percentage is for actually getting money, but the idea is neat if nothing else.

Inquiry Science
http://wise.berkeley.edu This is an intriguing free science resource designed for middle and high school students. It is collaborative, students work through modules in pairs. Looks awesome!

This is a simple list of of all pages included with your wiki. You will hopefully create many, many more!

• All Pages is an automatically generated list of all the pages in your wiki.
  

• Bookmarks is for your bookmarks on this wiki. Every user has his/her own bookmarks page based on what they choose to bookmark on this wiki. To bookmark a page, simply click "Bookmark" at the bottom of the page! (Interwiki Bookmarks on wikispot shows you all of your bookmarks on all wikis.)
  

• Front Page is the page you're currently viewing.
  

• Events Board is a page where anyone can post events in the community.
  

• Help links to the main help pages on wikispot — useful for reference.
  

• Interwiki Map — link to non-Wiki Spot wikis using interwiki links by adding names and URLs of wikis to this page.
  

• Orphaned Pages contains an automatically generated list of pages with no links to them. Ideally, this page should be empty — keep your wiki well-linked!
  

• Outgoing Links lists all pages sorted by the number outgoing links on each page. This provides a good place to start if you're feeling gnomeish and want to link-up some pages with few to no links.
  

• Quick Wiki Tips — At the top of Recent Changes shows randomly selected tips from this page.
  

• Recent Changes shows all the recent activity on the wiki in a given time period. This page lets everybody see what's happening in your wiki! (Interwiki Recent Changes on wikispot shows you the recent changes on all the wikis you're watching.)
  

• Random Pages is a randomly generated list of twenty-five pages. Good for finding pages to edit once your wiki grows large.
  

• Site Organization has links to pages that help you keep your wiki well organized.
  

• Templates is a user created list of template pages — pages that you can use as starting blocks for making new pages. Templates/Business is there just to give you an idea of what a template should be.
  

• User Statistics is a page that displays statistics, such as the number of edits, for each person who's edited your wiki.
  

• Wanted Pages contains all the pages that are linked to, but do not yet exist. This is another good place to start gnomeing.
  

• Wiki Sandbox is a place for users to play around with the wiki without disturbing your content.
  

• Wiki Settings contains the administrative settings for your wiki.
  

• Wiki Settings/CSS is the page where you can upload different style sheets that change your wiki's appearance.
  

• Wiki Settings/General contains general settings for your wiki.
  

• Wiki Settings/Images allows you to customize images on your wiki, such as your logos.
  

• Wiki Settings/Security lets you change the default security settings of your wiki and create user groups to control access.

To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page."