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How-to video: Creating efficient classroom wiki navigation and page design

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Brief synopsis: A wiki-hosted classroom web site can take on many different looks and types of navigation. A digital classroom teacher should create a classroom web site that is aesthetically pleasing and easy-to-navigate. Using a wiki host like EditMe, navigation becomes easy, using the page organizer. Also, various pages on the classroom web site can have different designs, which will create varied style and make it easier to place larger items on some wiki pages.

Benefits: Creating parent-child relationships on the classroom web site's menus makes for easy navigation from one page to another; this is especially important when the classroom web site grows to hundreds or even thousands of pages. If the digital classroom teacher decides to use embedded video or other large graphics, changing the design from two or three columns to one column creates a better looking page. Wikis like EditMe offer page organizers that make creating these relationships easy.

Drawbacks: All wikis are different, so until you are get into a "comfort zone," building an easy-to-navigate classroom web site will take time.

Conclusion: The how-to video above demonstrates how to create an easy-to-navigate classroom web site with different page designs.

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