Using a Wiki for Collecting Internet Resources

Jay School Department Workshop on Friday, October 9, 2009

"Teach Digital: Curriculum by Wes Fryer"

Wes Fryer freely publishes digital handouts that are part of his presentations at conferences and workshops of all kinds. I'm perplexed and disappointed that I had not happened upon them earlier, but now I have another incredible resource just a click away. Thanks, Wes.

Here are just a few of the topics:

Blended Learning
Collaboration
Conversations
Copyright
Cyberbullying
Digital Storytelling
Family Learning Blog
Multimedia
Podcasting

If you go to the front page of the wiki, you find many more conference/workshop topics and accompanying resources on the right sidebar. Again, note that these are freely given under a Creative Commons License. And even more importantly, they don't require any special password or proprietary software for access. A ubiquitous web browser is all that is needed.

BTW, for the uninitiated, Wes blogs at Moving at the Speed of Creativity.

OER, MLR & Wikis

MLR OER Workshop

MLR OER Home Page

Aligning Open Educational Resources to the Maine Learning Results

Workshop LINK

Home Page of MLR Open Resources

Wiki and Blog Training in the County

Ed Latham is doing a workshop on Wikis and Blogs in the County this afternoon.

Hurray for Western Maine!

by Richard Byrne

The official 2008 Edublog Awards nominees were announced last night. Four people from Western Maine were nominated. Jim Burke was nominated in the category of Best Educational Wiki 2008 for the Learning in Maine wiki. Jeff and Dan at Wicked Decent Learning were nominated for Best Educational Use of Audio. My blog Free Technology for Teachers was nominated for Best Resource Sharing Blog.

The voting is open now. You can see the full list of nominees and place your votes here.

Flex Day at Rumford Elementary

Using Wikis in the Classroom

• WebTools4u2use: Wikis
• Classroom Wikis
• Wikis in the Classroom
  
• Learning in Maine Wiki
  
• WikiSpaces
• Wikis in Plain English

• Wiki Tour

Agenda: Building Web Pages with FirstClass RWD

Another Handy Tool from Google

I just discovered another handy tool from Google that seems to be a very user-friendly way of working with groups. It is called Google Sites and is of the wiki persuasion. Feel free to play with the one I set up here. What do you think?

* Oops . . . it appears that an invite needs to be extended in order to edit although viewing can be private or public. Thanks for the heads-up, Sarah Sutter.

TelstarToo Session: Wikis and Math

Today the participants of the TelstarToo PLC will be gathering resources for specific math skills and themes . . . and then adding them to a wiki resources page using LIM's Resources Wiki.



Maine Learning Results for Math
K12 Station Math Search
42eXplore Mathematics
eMINTS eTHEMES for Math
Curriki for Math
Math from OER Commons
Math at LIM Resources
Custom Google Search for Math
Online Interactive Math Resources
Online Math Games
Problem Solving Strategies
Using Music with Math
Mathematics and Music
The Mathematical Magic of Music

Anyone else care to add a page relating to math?

Telstar Wiki Session

Today we will:

• Review Smartboards and sharing tools & uses.

• Focus on adding a favorite topic/theme/lesson/link to the LIM Resources Wiki (come with a topic in mind . . . perhaps something that you've used over the years). Create our own wiki sites.

• Continue ongoing work on individual projects of interest.

Related Resources:

Wikipedia
Curriki
More Info about wikis
Jim Moulton's wiki at Wikispaces on project-based learning.
Gulf of Maine Activities at Wikispaces
NNELL (National Network for Early Language Learning) at Wikispaces
Blue Algebra Wikispace (Lewiston)

Smartboard 2-Minute Tutorials
Smartboard Information
More on Smartboards

Essential Questions
Bloom's Taxonomy
Universal Design

Arts, Innovation & Creativity

MVYDC Laptop Lunch Group

Wikispaces is an easy and convenient place to set up a digital learning space to complement face-to-face staff development. It's free and straightforward . . . . without layers of bureaucracy to work through when dealing with limited time and energy.


Check out the WVYDC Laptop Lunch Group right here in the State of Maine as an excellent example.

Who could ask for anything more?



More Info about wikis
Jim Moulton's wiki at Wikispaces on project-based learning.
Gulf of Maine Activities at Wikispaces
NNELL (National Network for Early Language Learning) at Wikispaces
Blue Algebra Wikispace (Lewiston)

You are invited to join and contribute to the LIM Resources Wiki.

LIM Resources Wiki

An annex to Learning in Maine has been created at WikiSpaces:

Learning in America Wiki


In order to edit, you must click on the "Join this Space" text in the upper left of the opening page and fill in the necessary information. Once that is completed, feel free to add pages and edit earlier pages. (Note: Membership needs to be approved before editing can commence after you've signed up. Jeff Bailey, thank you for being the first tester and for filling out the application to be the first to join. I've approved it with a single click and will try to make future approvals as quickly as possible . . . now that I know how it works).

Web 2.0 with Becky & Olga - Blogs & Wikis

I am still on the floor in a room that is overflowing with delightful educators, checking out a presentation of web 2.0 tools by Becky Ranks and Olga LaPlante. We are watching a TeacherTube vid by a lady called Allanah.


Email to Friend

Becky is presenting some down-to-earth examples of blogs created by teachers and students.

Olga speaks of the advantages of RSS and blogs.

More: Blogging in Education

Next . . . review the advantages of wikis.

More: Wiki Resources

Skype

Viewed a Bob Spankle talk on Podcasting

More: Podcasting and Education

Examples of VoiceThread

Animoto

Think.com

More: Online Classroom Environments

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