Getting+students+on

4/15/10 Almost all of my students are registered on wikispaces.com and are members of my members of my Wiki.

What I did. 1. We talked about e-mail. 28 of my 34 students have an e-mail account. Most of the rest thought they could get an e-mail address. 2. One student does not have a computer at home. I wrote to her mother asking if I could sign her up for a free account. After her mother wrote back yes, Sister Catherine signed her up for me. (gmail) 3. We went to the computer lab and registered each one. The plan was to have most of them on “First in Math” while I worked with small groups. You can sign up your class. Go to HELP and follow the directions for registering members in bulk.

- We went to www.wikispaces.com to register. - For the username, I asked them to type in sws their FIRST NAME & LAST INITIAL They can use the same one for 5, 6, 7, 8 grades - For the Password, I asked them to use their First in Math password. Some passwords were 3 letter words, so I asked them to type 444 at the end. (passwords must be at least 6 characters) Again, they can use the same one each year. - Then we went to my wiki and each clicked on “Join this wiki” - They each wrote all this info on an index card for me. 4. That afternoon, I took the to the GPP room. I set up the laptop and projector and signed on to my wiki. Each of their names came up as wanting to join. I approved each one there and then. They loved it! 5. Then I showed them the pages on my wiki and explained what they would do. 6. I demonstrated how to click EDIT, write their answer and SAVE. 7. Warn them that if they get a message, saying someone else is editing the same page they are, stop and wait or all their information could be lost.