Tips

=Member Usernames=

Ensure your students use a version their real name. E.g., jsmith or marys. This helps re accountability and for your marking. =Discussions=

If doing a group project wiki, it's a good idea to have one discussiopn topic per group. Then ask the other groups or as individuals to respond to x number of discussion topics. Any more and marking gets unweildy.

Do your students not do their reading befre lessons? After assigning a reading, e.g., chapter 6 from text abc, post a discussion topic to which they have to respond. It will make next day's lesson more meaningful and it's an easy way to create some // communication // marks.

=Widgets=

Widgets are those fun things like videos and slideshows. You can embed virtually anything if their is an embed url available from the source website. Look for it.

Need to put your own powerpoint presentation on a wiki? Go to slideshare.net and create an account. Upload your presentation. Then copy the embedded url into your wiki as a widget. Done! You lose your animations but the trend in presentations is away from them anyway. Check out this [|wiki page].

=Anchors=

Want an internal link from one wiki page to another specific spot on another wiki page? You need to make an anchor to that spot and then link to the anchor on that page. E.g., go to where you want the link to take you. In our case it's Wiki Examples page. Near the bottom of the page I place an anchor by keying in two open square brackets, # sign, name of the anchor, two closed square brackets. In my anchor I called it a1 but it can be anything. It's the double square brackets and # that create the anchor. Then go to the page you want the link to be and select the link icon on the edit toolbar and link to that page and anchor. In our case this text will link to that anchor.

See the BTT1O1 wiki for an example of good use of anchors. All the activities are in the same unit pages but are linked directly from the home page by anchored links.

=Files=

You can link to files on your school board pages. If you must upload to the wiki, click the insert images and files icon on the edit toolbar, select upload files. Once uploaded you can link to it. See the Getting to Know Entrepreneurs Page.