Our+Wikis

Our wikispaces.
Our names now link to the wikispaces we have already created. It would be great for us to practice what we preach by having a conversation about what is happening on our wikis.

====Janine This space is a private space for a cluster of Central Hawkes Bay Schools working together onthe AToL contract. I am still working on a full membership but some more techno-savy teachers are beginning to use the space and are inviting dialogue. The blend of face-to-face along with the site is proving to be very important on a number of levels.====

Paddy
====Glynis I am getting excited about my wiki - people are writing on it. I had a tussle regards how to get people to engage. Time is the major barrier so far. I have yet to recruit my participants. I have two Cluster meetings coming up 7 and 14 June!!!====

Heather 2009 Sustainablehawkesbay This wiki was set up to support EfS teachers in the HB region. As yet I haven't invited them (haha) but i am working on it. I need to get a list of names from Christine to supplement the teachers i work with before i can promote it. I also felt that i should ensure there was enough material online to make it worthwhile before i encouraged teachers to join. Last year we realised that unless teachers could see the value in using the wikis they wouldn't keep coming back. I am going to use this site to try to get a refelctive learning community, it's a bit of a high ask but i'll give it a go.

Heather
This space was started in 2007 as a result of teachers wanting access to the new material that was coming out with the new curriculum launch. I decided that I was too stretched to be able to keep up with the emails and note taking from the workshops, so i thought it could be useful to create a 'one stop shop' for technology teachers. Looking at our puzzle of practice this year, it is clear that teachers use it as a shopping mall. It was set up with that purpose, it was never intended to be anything else. There are too many teachers (42 at last count) for any reflection to occur, they don't know each other as it combines three regions, and as practice around the new curriculum was emerging, no-one could really share their ideas with conviction that they were on the right track. I wouldn't change this wiki given the above conditions. I think it is serving a purpose that was identified by the teachers, and they all like what it offers. In terms of this project, i would choose a different group to develop an online learning community. This wiki is an example of a Community of interest rather than a community of practice, as it was not set up to share practice, rather to provide access to good practice provided by me.

To create a link to your wiki;(if you don't already know) Heather
 * Click on **edit this page** first.
 * Open a new tab and go to your wiki that you want to invite us to.
 * Highlinght the URL (address bar at the top of the page) and copy it (Ctrl C).
 * Go back to this wiki page
 * Highlight your name (see below)
 * Go to the world map with the closed link on it
 * Click on **external link** and paste (Ctrl V) the URL in after the http stuff.
 * close
 * Your name will now be blue/purple and underlined. Clever aren't you!
 * Save