How-to video: Navigating a wiki-hosted classroom web site
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Brief synopsis: A wiki-hosted classroom web site can be a remarkably powerful tool for students, parents and teachers in a digital classroom, if the classroom web site is used to its fullest effect. In order to create the most useful classroom web site, it's important for teachers to fully grasp all of the tools that the wiki offers, in order to create an aesthetically-pleasing, easy-to-use digital classroom environment.
Benefits: A wiki-hosted classroom web site gives students and parents ease of use and the ability to view anything from a syllabus, to a blog, to a message board, to an alphabetical list of slides, videos and other classroom presentations in one all-inclusive web site. With the right wiki host, a digital classroom teacher can create a different look from one page to the next, making web pages easy to understand and easy to navigate for students and parents. A wiki, like EditMe, offers a page organization tool that allows the teacher to create tree-like navigation that makes it easy for students and parents to locate important pages on the classroom web site.
Drawbacks: There is a slight learning curve to setting up a powerful classroom web site, like the one in the video, so taking a course will be helpful.
Conclusion: The how-to video above demonstrates how to use a wiki-hosted classroom web site.
