I Can Count

I said in my last post that I worked with seven teachers to build a class wiki but only mentioned four. The other three Tania, Ryan and Amber have had some experience building a wiki so we covered different things.

Ryan and Tania were experimenting with adding sound into their wiki. Although it can be really frustrating at first when you get it right adding sound to a wiki is really quite easy. You add sound just as you would a file or picture with the symbol of a little tree.

Tania did a great post on her wiki of a student reading a book. The best thing for me was that I didn't know how long you could record for and stay under 4MB (this is the limit for uploading to a wiki). Tania's recording was just over 5 minutes and uploaded easily. We didn't check the file size Tania. We will have to next time. Ryan and I did this with his file as we thought it might be one of the reasons why it wasn't uploading but there was something wrong with the recording which Ryan can now fix. You check the file size on a Mac by selecting the file and pressing command and the letter I (I remember that by thinking Information).

Ryan also gave every child in his class a sign in for his wiki he went to "Manage Space" on his wiki and selected User Creator.
In here he followed the instruction given to list each child in his class with a user name and password, then all of these logins were created. It was pretty easy.

for example
Username, password
bobg, 0utram1
amyi, 0utram2

Ryan will be giving the students their logins and passwords and keeping his own copy also.

Amber has made a cool jigsaw out of a class photo for her wiki and changed the navigation bar on her wiki. If you don't change it it will automatically make every page you create a link in the navigation side bar.

I also sent them a link to this website to have a go at some other tricky things when they are ready or interested.

Looking forward to seeing their wikis next visit, people should be warned that blogs and wikis can become obsessions once you start doing some of this cool stuff.