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Your Wiki Assignment:
OK, create your wiki!

Here are some things to know and do:

1. Make sure you get rid of the ads!

2. Bear in mind that EVERYTHING you make in this class will be included in this wiki;

3. You can have anything you want on your classroom wiki, but the framework ** must include **, at a minimum, the following:

a. Engaging and exciting front page (one that gives the message of what your classroom is all about!). Leave room for a Blabberize that introduces the site (what you need to know is that is an audio introduction);

b. A page called "Meet Your Teacher" that introduces who you are as a teacher, a brief educational philosophy, a well-written paragraph or two reflecting your philosophy on integrating technology into your teaching and student learning, and a WHY YOU SHOULD HIRE ME component (you may choose to do this later as a digital story);

c. A "Parent Information" page (to include pertinent information that you would want parents of students in your classroom to know (schedules, your policies, etc.);

d. A "Teaching With Technology" page. This page will include, at a minimum: your Scope and Sequence chart (embedded, NOT copy and pasted), COPY AND PASTE of 10 lesson plans. Please do NOT embed the lesson plans, but DO copy and paste. The reason for this is simple: your lessons will be in a state of revision most of the time. Therefore, if you embed them in your wiki, you will always be downloading them, revising, then uploading. Also, when a hiring principal sees your lesson plans, you do not want them to have to download, then open them. Best to have them "viewable" instantly. However, HOW you organize the lesson plans is up to you. For example, you might want to create a table and then a separate page for each lesson, then create a link within the table. In this case, you would only put a link on the navigation bar to your table. Or, you could create a page with a description of each lesson and then link each lesson to a separate page. The decision is yours, but it must look professional, make logical sense, and be easy for someone to find your products.

Here is the lesson plan template for you to use: PLEASE DELETE my notes to you in the lesson plan before copying and pasting it ten times into your wiki.

e. A linked navigation bar (with these inclusions: ** Home, Meet Your Teacher, Parent Information, Teaching With Technology, Cool Websites of the Week, one link of your choice **).

4. Make sure you have some appropriate and interesting widgets.

** PLEASE REMEMBER ** : this wiki is something you will work on every week, not just for THIS week. So when you turn it in, ALL the content for each component do not need to be complete THIS WEEK. HOWEVER, the more work you put into it now, the more time you can devote to the content.

** For the FIRST WIKI assignment: **


 * 1) Create the wiki.
 * 2) Create and begin to populate the pages.
 * 3) Figure out how you are going to organize your "Teaching With Technology" page (linked table, linked list, etc.) Then, copy and paste the Lesson Plan template appropriately.
 * 4) Create and populate the navigation bar (//**exactly**// as described above, plus one extra link of your choosing).

DO NOT feel like you have to COMPLETE each and every page. OBVIOUSLY, you can't put everything in, BUT you need to get going--this is a HUGE assignment (ultimately, it is your semester project) but you should plan to work on it a little bit EVERY DAY! ===**// is is going to be your final product in this class AND a vehicle to get a job, so this would be where you want to excel in your creativity and efforts. //** ===