Heather Waikawa Using a Wiki to promote and share Tech Centre work
1. How can a
Wiki Site
enhance
collaboration
between home &
school? by Heather Whaikawa
2. Firstly, what is a
Wikisite?
Well basically it’s a bit like a
Bebo or Facebook!
3. Benefits
- Showcase our Centre
- Children can contribute
- Add pages as needed
-Whanau can view
children’s work
- Write comments
- Inform, entertains
4. I have always
wanted to
showcase
student work.
We do some really cool stuff and
we’re proud of their efforts.
5. So... I decided
to give it a go!
I learned all I could about
making a Wiki site
6. Secondly, I had
to learn how to
use Keynote
to present my
findings.
Which Beth said was soooooo easy!!!
( yeah right)
7. Watching the
movie.......
5 hours later !!
I began to get the hang of it!
8. All this effort
just to present
my Wiki site?
But my knowledge & understanding
increased immensely! (Ha Ha)
30. And all the bits and bobs that
make up a wikisite!
31. Take a Look...
http://mvtechcentrewikispacescom.wikispaces.com/
32. To add a soundtrack:
1. Click Inspector in the toolbar, and then click the Document inspector
button.
2. Click the Audio button.
3. Do one of the following:
To add a song or playlist from your iTunes Library, click iTunes Library. Find
the song or playlist you want, and then drag it from the Media Browser to
the Audio well in the Document inspector. Note that if you make changes to
the playlist in iTunes, the change won’t be reflected in your soundtrack until
you add the playlist again.
To add an audio file from the Finder, drag it from your desktop to the audio
well in the Document inspector.
4. To make the song or playlist play through repeatedly while the presentation
is running, choose Loop from the pop-up menu adjacent to the audio well.
5. To preview the song while you’re working on your slideshow, click the Play
button below the audio well.
33. At first I thought the Wiki was going to be too time consuming for
all my photos, but all you do is use the 'Table'
In Keynote, only put the effect on some of the turning pages,
otherwise its too distracting.
That a Screen shot is one the most useful bit of ICT I could
possibly know. I use it HEAPS! (Shift + apple + 4).
My wiki site is easy for kids to use. They love talking about their
work and having their photo on the internet.
I'm nearly ready to trial it with Nunguru School. I don't know as
yet how safe it is, eg. can people go in and change text etc?
So, I still have more to test and work out
I must go into the internet before i present so that it flows staight
into the hyperlink
Music - this was challenging, but I went to the 'help' and just
follow instructions exactly. It was cool.
Kids love going into the site and talking about their own work!!