WF1+David+Carroll

Hello all. I have been teaching ICT at GilroySanta Maria College in Ingham for the past four and a half years.

I want to run through some of the basics of using wikis in an educational context.

Here is a great place for beginners to start : []

If you can see this, then you already have a wikispaces account and can now create your own wikis. Another source, one one that actively encourages educational use, is PBwiki -http://pbwiki.com/

My senior students are working (I hope!) on this wiki: [], and I add useful things to it occasionally, as the need arises. The students have contributed to the "Artificial Intelligence" pages (http://iptweb.pbwiki.com/Artificial+Intelligence). Of course we all have access to MyInternet, but this wiki gives more power to the students.

For the adventurous, you can setup your own server at home using WAMP and install MediaWiki (the software used by Wikipedia) all for free. You may have to pay a hosting fee if you want it online.

Another collaborative tool which can be really useful in schools is on-line storage. I will show you haw easy it is to set up an account, and you an see for yourself how helpful it can be.

On another only slightly related point, I often use [] to save videos from sites such as YouTube, so that tyhey are always available to me or to the students who don't have access at school.