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Presentation for AAHPERD, April 2009. What is a wiki? How do you use wikis in PE? Step by step creating of a wiki for the use of K-12 PE teachers and PETE educators.
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WIKIS IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Helena Baert
AAHPERD Conference, April, 2009
A wiki is an easy-to-use
free web page that multiple
people can edit.
Wiki means Quick in Hawaiian
In the classroom, a wiki is a free
tool that empowers
every student to participate
in group projects.
James has assigned a team research project.
What can he do to encourage the students to work together, share resources and create high
quality work?
ConversePost ideas
Respond
Forum
WritePublish
Comment
CreatePublish
CommentConversePost IdeasRespond
ShareEdit
CollaborateEngage
Blog Wiki
Three great ways to communicate with students
“It's so easy to create a site to help guide
students along with projects. I have found that
it's a good way to make handouts available to students - I just point
them at the web address. I post links to my PBwiki
sites on Rockford's site so that parents can access
project guidelines as well.”
Justin Wylie Rockford High School
Possibilities in Physical Education:-PE Website for parents/students-Collaborative website: e.g. creating games-PE portfolio’s - PE Dictionary-Brainstorming - Class Notes-Group Work - Research-PE teacher network - PE resource-50 Ways to use wikis in classroom
Many types of Wikis: Examples
Free wikis for education! Wetpaint Wiki: TGfU Wiki Wikispaces: PE Wiki PbWiki:
PEAC courses at U of A Personal Wikis School PE wikis
Read
Write
Web
How can she make certain her online site is off limits to child
predators?
How can she be sure that her students won’t be drawn onto the web?
Mary wants to be sure her students are
protected from the wider internet.
YOU control who sees your wiki
You invite your studentsEach student has a unique login and
password
Educator wikis are free and never display advertisements
NO ADS
Jamie wants to make certain her students act appropriately on
line.
Will her students write offensive
comments?
How can she monitor her students activity?
You have a history of every edit
You are notified of every change
No more “dog ate my homework”
Edits are time stamped. You know who made changes and when they were made.
Wikis are Free and Easy to set up
No IT department is needed!
Simply create a password and begin
Set it up and it worksjust like typing in Microsoft Word
Just like creating a
Word document
Easily insert
Images and Video
Just click and begin
Post a picture or a video
Teachers can make coursework and
homework information easily available to both students and
parents.
With easy to use plugins you can create
a calendar.
Quickly create new pages Templates designed with teachers
in mind
Educator wikis are free, fast and ready to use.
Create one now at
www.pbwiki.com
Let’s get practical!
The Web as a notebook
We are all going to build a wiki right here, right now.
Don’t worry if you do not know how and when you will use it as you can delete the wiki at any time.
Also, you can create a new wiki any time you want, for free!
Steps of creating your own WIKI1. Go to www.pbwiki.com2. Click on "Try it now“3. Click on "Create an Academic wiki“4. Select the "free" one5. Create a name for your wiki -
remember, you can't change the URL once you create it but you can always make a new one.
6. Follow the steps of setting up a wiki
Make it your own!
Title
FrontPage = Homepage
Title!
Title
To Change the title:
Go to Settings
Title!
Change settings
#1
Change settings
#2
Change settings
# 3: Change time and language to meet your needs!
Change settings
#4: Add your contact info!
Change settings
#5: Always Click SAVE!
All 5 steps!
#1
#2
# 3: Change time and language to meet your needs!
#4: Add your contact info!
#5: Always Click SAVE!
Saved!
Changing the color
ChangingThe color
Changing the color
Wiki security
Wiki Security
3 Choices! 1) Who can see the wiki2) Who can edit?3) Full control: only have
people on it that you invite. (This may not be
optimal for a class website as you may want parents to be able to view the content)
Notifications & RSS
From experience, I tend to unclick that so my students do not receive multiple emails when they sign up for the wiki.
You can change notifications when you go to your personal account.
Changing your own notifications
RSS Feeds
RSS is a method for subscribing to changes made on your wiki so you can see what has changed more easily. Most web browsers include RSS readers, and generally show a feed icon somewhere near the address bar (the icon is orange in most browsers, but it's blue in Safari.)
When you click this icon, you'll see a list of available feeds. Here's what that looks like in the Firefox browser.
RSS Feeds (2)
Your PBwiki has a few feeds you can subscribe to: The Recent Changes feed includes all
recent changes on your wiki, including page edits, comments, file uploads -- you name it.
Each wiki page has its own feed that only includes edits and comments on that particular page
Each folder has its own feed that includes edits and comments made to any page in that folder
Getting RSS feeds to your reader
Click on the orange notification
Subscribe using Google Reader
Every time someone edits.. I will know!
Users
Creating a new page/ folder
Creating a folder: Front Page “Page and Files” “New” New page or new file
Creating a new page: Go to front page Click “Create a Page” Give your page a name Put your page in a folder
Add a template
If you want your students to use the same format.
E.g. lesson plans, creating a game, writing a paragraph, doing a project
You can create a page and by adding the tag “template”, you create a template that you can copy.
Let’s have a look at an example: Jogging project:
http://beginningjogging.pbwiki.com/Jogging-Project-Template
Editing a page
Click Edit Use the “WYSIWYG” editor – as easy as
using word. Type away! Insert pictures:
Insert links/images and files Upload files (create picture folder/ file
folder) Click on picture/file to insert where cursor is
Linking
Creating links between page makes a wiki more interactive
How to add a link? Link to other wiki page Link to new wiki page Link to folder Link to URL Link to Email
Always remember to put the cursor where you want the link to be.
Using Plug-ins
A few final tricks
Remove formatting Source Side bar Page Security New! Starred Pages, Navigator, Send a link,
Notifications Help desk
Let’s play around!
Try this!
Edit a page Create a new page Create a folder Put the page in the folder Add a link to page/URL/email Add a picture Add a file Add a gadget Add a calendar
For more ideas check out the PBwiki educator page. You can
find tips, suggestions, templates and a community of fellow
teacher users.
http://educators.pbwiki.com
More info: [email protected]
Email me if you have any questions or you need assistance with your wiki.
Thank you!
