collaboration

=Collaborative Creation=
 * Students will understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior.**
 * advocate and practice safe, responsible use of information and technology[[image:animation.gif align="right"]]
 * exhibit positive attitudes toward technology uses that support collaboration, learning and productivity
 * demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning
 * exercise proactive leadership for digital citizenship
 * actively demonstrate civil and respectful behavior in the digital environment
 * Students will use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively including at a distance to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others**.
 * collaborate, publish, and interact with peers, experts and others employing a variety of digital media and formats
 * communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences utilizing a variety of media and formats
 * contribute to project teams to produce original works
 * Students will access, retrieve, manage and evaluate information using digital tools**
 * locate, organize, evaluate, synthesize and use information from a variety of sources and media
 * evaluate and select information sources and technological tools based on the appropriateness to specific tasks
 * process data and report results
 * Students will use critical thinking skills to plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems and make informed decisions using appropriate technology tools.**
 * collect and analyze data to identify solutions and make informed decisions
 * use multiple process and diverse perspectives to explore alternative solutions


 * In this block of learning you will**
 * 1) View and read information to learn about wikis
 * 2) View and read information to learn about the collaborative and educational applications of wikis
 * 3) Locate, evaluate and select information on online safety that is appropriate for your students and/or their parents
 * 4) Use a wiki to build an online staff document/manual about digital citizenship in your school

**Part 1: Learn about wikis**
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 * 1) watch the short video below to get an idea of how and when to use a wiki:

2. Learn how to use wikispaces.com - the wiki we are using to create the collaborative online document by watching the short video [|tutorials] from wikispaces to give you some background on how to use a wiki.

3. Read about the different ways to add content to a wiki:

There are three different ways that you can contribute information to the wiki. You can **modify pages** that have already been created. Once you click the //edit page// button you will have access to a tool bar much like that of a word processing program only smaller. This will allow you to edit the page that you are on. You can edit, modify,change and add to the information on the page. Click save when you are done and the changes will be visible to the world.

You can also **create new pages**: click on the //new page// link at the top of the menu bar on the left hand side. Give your page a name. Click the edit button and create your page. If you create a new page you should add it to the menu bar on the left so others can see it. Click the //edit navigation// link. For example.... You may want to create a page that will provide information about online safety to parents of your grade two students; you may want to add anti-cyberbullying YouTube videos to a page for grade 8 students......

You may want to **start a discussion** about the information that you have placed on a page. Use the **discussion tab** at the top of the page to begin a threaded discussion.

[|How I use Wikis in the Classroom] from Vicki Davis of the [|Cool Cat Teacher Blog]. Vicki has organized her uses of wikis into five educational categories. The comments are also well worth reading as they offer other ideas of how to use wikis in the classroom. Eduwikis has many great links to educational uses of wikis -- well worth exploring!
 * Read about the educational applications of wikis**

**Part 2: Use a Wiki to Build a Collaborative Document**
In this learning block the main focus will be on collecting and evaluating information more than the use of web 2.0 tools although you will learn how to use a wiki to collaboratively build a document that illustrates the expectations that you as a staff have with regard to digital citizenship:
 * Online safety
 * Privacy
 * Cyberbulling
 * Respecting the ideas of others
 * Use of the laptops by students
 * Use of the laptops by staff
 * Anything else you think is important

I have created a Connaught School Wiki, on which you will create a Digital Citizenship online manual. You should have received an e-mail inviting you to join this wikispace. If you did not, simply click the //join this space// link on the Connaught School Wiki and ask to join. I will activate your access.

Using the resources provided on the wiki tackle an area of digital citizenship you wish to explore with your students and/or the parents in your school community. Create a page that expresses your ideas, concerns and suggestions for the entire school or for the grade you teach.

As you add information and create your pages you should also do the following:
 * Wiki technical tasks:**
 * 1) Add the wiki to your rss reader so that you can see all the site changes that are made
 * 2) Add one or two pictures/video to your pages (you may want to return to this after completing the next block of learning which deals with images)

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