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=Welcome to the CEGSA Conference and Workshops wiki= The purpose of this wiki is to give conference and workshop participants experience in collaborative learing and sharing. It was set up by Graham Taylor and will be used in his workshops for participants to create and edit their own pages.

=**What's a wiki? Collaborative workspaces for education.**=

- suggested pathway

 * 1) explore a well developed wiki, eg [|wikipedia] and or [|SchoolComputing]
 * 2) look at the edit, discussion, history and special pages (use tabs)
 * 3) [|register with wikispaces]. Note: most wikis encourage you to become a member which has many advantages including ability to edit protected/private sites - if accepted as a member
 * 4) try some collaborative writing. Go to It was a dark and stormy night and add to the story. There may be problems with a number of people working on the same page so you should make small changes and save. Do not keep the page unsaved too long or you may overwrite someone elses work
 * 5) create your own from the New Internet Mob in this wiki - format, add links, etc
 * 6) try the text editor and visual editor modes (visual editor not supported in Safari - Firefox works well)
 * 7) use search - NB, you can search this wiki or all wikispaces
 * 8) once you have some confidence in editing you may wish to create your own [|wiki] space! Wikis, like most enterprises, greatly benefit from a bit of planning. Inspiration is an excellent tool for this but pencil and paper will work well.

Protection levels

 * Public - visible and editable to all
 * Protected - visible to all and editable only by members
 * Private - visible to and editable only by members

Possible uses

 * teacher teaching space - make protected but no other members. For putting up work, reading, webquests, etc.
 * collaborative class work, eg, theballen, Inspit, creative writing, Tonya
 * teacher collaborative work - [|CEGSA], [|EdWiki]
 * resource sharing
 * giving a lesson, eg, this wiki! Go on, teach yourself. tafekara
 * [42ways:home|42 ways to use a wiki] - you should get a few ideas here.
 * http://www.editme.com/

links for all

 * [|Wikipedia on wikis]
 * 42ways:home

links mainly for teachers

 * [|7 things you should know about wikis] is a concise and interesting pamphlet.
 * CEGSA PD
 * [|What is a wiki - How to use one for your projects]
 * Peter Ruwolt's Waraku WikiCollaborativeProjects
 * [|Leigh Blackall's 7min video introduction to using Wikispaces]
 * [|How to start a Wiki]
 * [|Search edna for more...]
 * [|Using wiki in education]
 * Peter Ruwolt
 * [|Graham's bookmarks for 'wiki']

Acknowledgements

 * wikispaces.com** for providing this ad free educational wiki space. They want to give away 100,000 free spaces for K~12 educators so book your space now.

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 * And for support, ideas, etc**: Tony Saint, Nick Valance, Peter Ruwoldt, Steve Knipe