PALE.+A+Free+and+Useful+Web+2.0+Tool+for+Educators.+Wikispaces

A FREE AND USEFUL WEB 2.0 TOOL FOR EDUCATORSWIKISPACES

**This course is aimed at teachers involved in the [|PALE programme] ( Programa de Apoyo a la Enseñanza y el Aprendizaje de Lenguas Extranjeras.Orden de 27 de agosto de 2007).**
 * 1. SESSIONS **


 * The sessions will be carried out in CPR Cáceresa on the 3rd (Thursday) and 4th (Friday) of November. **

**2. SCHEDULE**


 * **THURSDAY, 3RD ****(17:00 - 20.00) ** || **FRIDAY, 4TH ****(17:00 - 20:00) ** ||
 * * **Introduction: Web 2.0.**


 * **Wikis at Wikispaces.**


 * **[|Registering and creating your first wiki.]**


 * **Editing Pages. The Editing Toolbar.**


 * **The Navigation Menu**


 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Inserting Hyperlinks.**


 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Inserting Images and Documents.**


 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**The Embed Widget Icon.**


 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Adding a Table of Contents.** || * <span style="background-color: #ffb800; color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Wiki Mail.**


 * <span style="background-color: #ffb800; color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Managing your Wiki.**


 * **<span style="background-color: #ffb800; color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Discussion Board. **


 * <span style="background-color: #ffb800; color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Examples of Educational Wikis.**


 * <span style="background-color: #ffb800; color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**"Docentes en Extremadura" Wikispaces. Collaborative Projects.**


 * <span style="background-color: #ffb800; color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Resources.** ||


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3. CONTENTS **


 * =<span style="color: #f22121; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">What is Web 2.0? [[image:web_2.0.jpg width="296" height="197"]] =

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: justify;">**As far as new technologies are becoming more important in the education field, I would like to tell you about [|Web 2.0] and specifically, about some of its relevant applications. If there is a Web 2.0, there is a [|Web 1.0], being the first one the "participatory web" and the second, "the web-as-information-source" as Bart Decrem callls them. Let's have a look to the following pictures and explanation from** **Web 2.0 in Education & Profiles****:**

//The phrase "Web 2.0" comes from the business world, and while it has the ring of a marketing catch-phrase, actually describes a significant transition in the use of the Internet, or the World Wide Web. Web 1.0, or the Web that most of us have been fairly used to using for some years now, has largely been a one-way medium: this is when we look for information on the web. Web 1.0 was the natural result of our existing mindsets of how information is transferred, and has been a reflection of our industrial culture: experts (or businesses) dispensing identical knowledge (or products) to mass students (or consumers).//

//Web 2.0 is a// //two-way medium, representing the next phase of usage of the internet, and a change that (quite reasonably) has people making a comparison to the advent of the printing press--in Web 2.0 almost anyone can become a publisher, or a "content producer." In Web 2.0 the creation of material or information on the Web is as much a part of our experience as the finding or reading of data has been in Web 1.0. And in Web 2.0 the content created by regular users can be much, and sometimes almost all, of the value from a website.//


 * So, we can say that Web 2.0 is:**
 * **<span style="color: #5049f3; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Collaborative **
 * **<span style="color: #5049f3; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Participative **
 * **<span style="color: #5049f3; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Everybody can generate contents. **
 * **<span style="color: #5049f3; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Add information easily. **


 * =<span style="color: #21f22c; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Wikis.[[image:WHATISAWIKI.jpg]] =

**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">One of the coolest web 2.0 applications for me is [|WIKIS]. ** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**I want to bring something GOOD, PRACTICAL and EASY TO USE  **, **not only for you, teachers, but for our students.**

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">A Hawaiian word for “quick”.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">A wikispace is a collaborative website.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">It is a writing space to edit, change and delete information.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">It is free.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">How can teachers can use wikis?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">(Wikispaces for Educators: Video)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1. For the teacher **

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">A personal web page.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">A resources and data bank: interesting links, exams, students lists, pictures, etc.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Teaching Planning.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Researching.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Courses.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Forum.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2. For the students **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">(Using Wikispaces to promote active learning: Video) **

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Provide a space for free writing.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Draw up projects.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Collaborate on documents, such as an essay written by the entire class.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Upload photos.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Opinions.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sharing information: Notes.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Forum.


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4. EDUCATIONAL WIKIS **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Click here to see examples of educational wikis.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Eduwikis for Primary education (Spanish)


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Eduwikis for Secondary Education (Spanish)


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">5. TUTORIALS **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Wikispaces in Education. A Comprehensive Tutorial.]


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[[file:7 things you should know about wikis.english.pdf]]

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> In case you are a little bit lost with the English language, have a look to the following tutorial in Spanish:


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">6. RESOURCES **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> [|Wikispaces Tours]


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Wikispaces Help


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Wikispaces Tips and Tricks.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> [|Widgets for your wiki.]


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Aulawiki21:Embellecer mi wiki


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Educational Wikis: A list of articles, resources and educational wikis.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|List of wikis]


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Clip-Art]