Student Curators ‐ Wikispace Portfolio 2013cd Session Description: Levels of engagement and focus are much higher when students create materials to share. We also want students to be reflective practitioners, self‐assessing their work on assignments and projects. This session will focus on online portfolios using Wikispaces, embedding dynamic content to pump up the excitement in the classroom. Online Presentation: http://goo.gl/WrrYz Purpose: Student portfolios provide a body of work which showcases what students learn. For the teacher, it provides both formative and summative assessment of skills. It is also a nice display of course work for parents or others. For students, it allows them creativity and control as well as a portal for reflection. It can further be a place for evaluative peer review of classmates. **Generally a portfolio would be editable by the student or teacher rather than other students. Once you start creating wikis though, they can be accessed to as many or few members as is appropriate for the work. We will look as sample portfolios, student collaborative work and the how to’s so you can get started back at school. Some basics: •
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Wikispaces allows teachers to have an account with advanced features for free when it is for education The wiki is private, secure space for your class. Access can be open or for members only Teachers are able to load 100 accounts through the bulk loader Editing can be as simple (text) or advanced(html & embedded content) as students want What's in a wiki?*
Easy-to-use visual editor
Unlimited pages
Student accounts with or without email
addresses
Media and widgets from all over the Web
Easy navigation
Notification by email or RSS feed
Tags to organize your pages
and files
Complete history of every edit
Wiki-, page-, and file-level
permissions
Simultaneous editing **
Projects for group work
Contextual comments and
discussions
How? – Come to the presentation for full details, links, and instructions. During the session: Create and account if you don’t already have one, learn the basics of spreadsheets functions to add qualifiers to account names for bulk loading, discuss management, link to tutorials, imagine. Share with Attribution Student Curators ‐ Wikispace Portfolio If you use this with your classes, you will: Create a wiki, create student accounts, and facilitate! Share with Attribution 2013cd Student Curators ‐ Wikispace Portfolio 2013cd Session Description: Levels of engagement and focus are much higher when students create materials to share. We also want students to be reflective practitioners, self‐assessing their work on assignments and projects. This session will focus on online portfolios using Wikispaces, embedding dynamic content to pump up the excitement in the classroom. Online Presentation: http://goo.gl/WrrYz Purpose: Student portfolios provide a body of work which showcases what students learn. For the teacher, it provides both formative and summative assessment of skills. It is also a nice display of course work for parents or others. For students, it allows them creativity and control as well as a portal for reflection. It can further be a place for evaluative peer review of classmates. **Generally a portfolio would be editable by the student or teacher rather than other students. Once you start creating wikis though, they can be accessed to as many or few members as is appropriate for the work. We will look as sample portfolios, student collaborative work and the how to’s so you can get started back at school. Some basics: 
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Wikispaces allows teachers to have an account with advanced features for free when it is for education The wiki is private, secure space for your class. Access can be open or for members only Teachers are able to load 100 accounts through the bulk loader Editing can be as simple (text) or advanced(html & embedded content) as students want What's in a wiki?*
Easy-to-use visual editor
Unlimited pages
Student accounts with or without email addresses
Media and widgets from all over the Web
Easy navigation
Notification by email or RSS feed
Tags to organize your pages and files
Complete history of every edit
Wiki-, page-, and file-level permissions
Simultaneous editing **
Projects for group work
Contextual comments and discussions
How? – Come to the presentation for full details, links, and instructions. During the session: Create and account if you don’t already have one, learn the basics of spreadsheets functions to add qualifiers to account names for bulk loading, discuss management, link to tutorials, imagine. If you use this with your classes, you will: Create a wiki, create student accounts, and facilitate! Share with Attribution