webinar week four
Danesa Jepson and Sheri Edwards
Danesa's 10 Things Activity
Assignment : Ten Things You Should Know About . .
To engage students in an activity immediately, start with something they know about: themselves! This activity does that and more. After students create their own page, they then practice commenting on others' pages. The directions are set up on one page with:
- Sample by teacher
- Directions to students
http://jepsonroom13.pbworks.com/Student+Bios-10+Things+You+Should+Know+about+Me!
Permission granted by Sheri Edwards to use the teacher portion of information on my sites as is or make it yours with credit to owner and any other authors.
You may email me ms_edwards@mac.com with specific questions or respond on the mentor page.
Policy and Permissions
Wiki Etiquette For Students for all internet use (blogs, wikis, voicethreads, etc.)
Acceptable Use Policy A legaleze document
contract A summary of expectations, AUP, Etiquette
Student Contract For students who need review of expectations and need supervision
Note: I jump right in with one of the activities below which don't require students to login personally --- I have generic logins for this intro work, which I have logged in ahead of class.
The district provides a one-page catchall permission slip. Next, we learn the etiquette and students and parents sign that from my class. Then students can obtain their login names and passwords.
Over the course of the first month, we discuss and review etiquette and AUP -- in short segments. Then students sign the contract.
Students who do not follow expectations (for any school expectations, not just tech use) begin the Student Contract process.
I rarely have problems in my classroom because any slip results in immediate loss of use in my room and with all computers at school. The amount of time for loss of use is based on the nature of the inicident. See passwords below also.
Introduction to Wiki -- Invitations
KISS: Keep It Small, Simple and build to Keep It Simple, Social.
First things first: Create a Sandbox (edit play) page for teams of students. Show how to and allow them to login, edit, and save.
But do dive in. After a Sandbox practice, introduce an activity that is interesting to them while applying wiki tools.*
After that, provide login and passwords. Show them how to Create a Page, Put in Folder, Use Template. Then, let students create a first page from a template (design it and add 'template' as key word). Ask students to practice commenting on another's page. Both of these activities provide practice in using the guidelines of positive online behavior that is expected and can be addressed immediately.
* This year, even before dealing with passwords, I have created two activities: Text Talks, like Socratic Seminars, and a Wiki Roundup that takes students through the wiki edit toolbar and provides practice with tagging and saving in a series of Rounds for teams of students. I'm always surprised at how much students DO NOT know about using toolbars to format pages. The last round reviews wiki etiquette with the use of comments.
Text Talks
Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. ~ Alfred North Whitehead
What ideas are worth keeping? Let's talk as we wonder about the world. Click here.
Wiki Roundup
Review all about formatting and saving wiki pages here on the Wiki Roundup!
After choosing names:
About Us
Decide your code name after your teacher gives you directions. Then link to the page that matches your computer number. The direction and link page is here.
Parent Newsletter
Handout
nl831309v1n1x.pdf
Online Glogster
Names and Passwords
Think about: Student names and passwords.
PBWorks does a nice job of choosing passwords: minde were an animal, a number, a food. (ant6pear). For kids I know have a difficult memory, I would redo those for something easy (ant8apples or bees4peas). I used these passwords for all our blogs, voicethread, etc.
Some schools already use lastname firstinitial (edwardss). Some schools use firstnamelastinitial (sherie). At last year's Summer Camp, some of us thought about using the first three letters of the first name and the first or last letter of the last name (shee or shes).
Since I teach 5-8th grades, i decided to use pseudonyms. The 6-8th grade students rearranged the letters of their first and last name to include at least four to five letters of a "code" name. The kids enjoyed this. Nicknames are part of the culture of our community, and having a "code" name emphasized the importance of not sharing personal information.
Sheri Edwards --- shee
Jane Ebors -- neeb
Andrew Sanchez -- ansan
The unexpected benefit was that when sharing/blogging about what we did, the samples didn't show real names, so we could share some of our Diigo work.
I let students know the first day that each person is responsible for whatever happens under the use of his/her password. Any incident that conflicts with our expectations results in loss of use of computer privileges immediately. This usually stops any misuse with password sharing. The kids WANT to use computers.
Portfolio Process
Samples
Portfolio Icky Portfolio Directions
Technical Info
Show your network administers this page: Network Administrators
For users:
General PBWorks Help
The PBWorks Owners Manual
Projects
Who Are You?
Photo Essay Final at top and process below
About Me Reflection
Skype Call Reflections Questions and Answers
Homework Week Four: July 13 - 17
Three ways to invite your students -- including the BRAND NEW Classroom Accounts
- Request Access
- Upload email address
- Automatically create accounts without email address (for students under 13)
- How to introduce your wiki to students so it works
- Parent permission forms
- FAQ page
- Sandbox
- What to expect when your students take over
Live Discussion on inviting students and the suprising results
Homework week four: this should take 30 minutes
- Set your notification setting in my.pbwiki.com to make sure you receive notifications of student changes
- Upload your student email address, or print out your student accounts
- Determine what invite menthod works for your class and discuss it on the forum
Link for Tech Leaders: http://www.angelamaiers.com/2009/07/leadership-day-2009-hey-leader-tell-me-a-story-.html
Comments (1)
Mrs. Menge said
at 3:29 pm on Jul 13, 2009
link to "Ten Things Assignment" instructions. http://jepsonroom13.pbworks.com/Student+Bios-10+Things+You+Should+Know+about+Me!
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