Transcript PPT - UMass Lowell

CitiWiki Summer Workshop
Week2 Day 1: Wiki Review and
Wikispaces
Li Xu
CS, UMass Lowell
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CitiWiki Week2 Agenda
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Week 2: 7/30-8/2
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Day 1: Wiki review, use of wikispaces,
project ideas and template
Day 2: Googlegroup, RSS Feed, project
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Day 3: Multimedia, project time
Day 4: Project review, trouble shooting,
Q&A
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Invited STEM speakers
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Monday 11am: Chris Shannon, Workforce
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Tuesday 11am: John Hodgman, UMass
Lowell
Thursday 10am: Carol Barry, UMass Lowell
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CitiWiki Week2 Agenda
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Create and refine your project
prototype
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Easy to use wikispaces
Hands-on project time
Build your prototype of your end-product
Goal: turn ideas into reality
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Everyone gets a functional framework by
Day4!
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Workshop Info
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Workshop session
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9:15am-12:15pm
Olsen 314 (CS computer lab)
15 minutes break 10:45-11:00
Web page: http://www.cs.uml.edu/~citiwiki/
Wiki:
http://www.cs.uml.edu/~citiwiki/wiki
Mailing list and Google Group:
http://groups.google.com/group/citiwiki
[email protected]
PC and Wiki password
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Day 1 Agenda
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Wiki review
Wikispaces
Exchange project ideas and build your
project
Guest speaker
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Day 1 Goals
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Reflect Wiki basics
Learn to use Wikispaces
Build your project template
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Previous Topics
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Internet and web overview
Web page creation
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Wiki
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HTML, CSS styling
Wiki commands
PmWiki
Teaching framework using Wiki
Software installation
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Week2 Focus
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Standardize Wiki tools
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Wikispaces
Use Wikispaces to build your project
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“common denominator”
Relatively easy setup and configuration
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Wikispaces
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Setup
Editing commands
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Text formatting
Site organization and linking
Navigation guide
Site management
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Wikispaces
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Tutorial video
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Wikispaces
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Exercises:
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Create your own space
Create mock math101 pages
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Wikispaces
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Site management
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Control user access
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Public, protected
Invite members
Wiki space settings
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Appearance, look and feel
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Exchange Project Ideas
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Category
 Teacher
 Guidance Counselor
 Administrator
Questions:
 How will you use Wiki for your STEM task?
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Student use of Wiki
How will you take advantage of Wiki strength?
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Static page
Dynamic participation
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Create Your Wiki space
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Teacher
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Build Wiki site for your class
Course page and materials
Students access
Collaborative learning
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Create Your Wiki space
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Guidance Counselor
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STEM resources
Teachers, students, parents, public
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Create Your Wiki space
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Administrator
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Online presence of school
Manage announcement and events
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Day 1 Assignment
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Build and refine your Wiki space for
your end-product
Announce your space link and brief info
to the Googlegroup mailing list
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