Guide

Guide and FAQ

How does Wikispaces work?
 Just hit the **edit button** to  update any time, from anywhere Make changes to any page on your wiki from any computer or web-enabled device with the click of a button.

Complete page histories

save every edit and revision
The wiki logs every change, so you can easily compare drafts of a page or revert to an earlier version.  Add videos and widgets to

create rich, appealing pages
Widgets like video, calendars, and visitor counters can make your wiki more attractive, engaging, and useful.

Projects make it easy to

organize group work
Every educational wiki lets you organize members into project-related teams, each with its own pages, files, and permissions.  Discussions and contextual comments

support discussion and feedback
Make a discussion forum for the whole wiki, answer questions on a page, or leave comments on any passage of any page.

<span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">Adjustable permissions

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; vertical-align: baseline;">keep your content safe and secure
<span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">Determine who sees content and how they use it with wiki-, page-, and file-level permissions. ...and more!
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Visual editor
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Bulk user creator
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Unlimited pages
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Single Sign-On


 * <span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Customizable themes
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Email notification
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Editable navigation
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Page templates


 * <span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Tags
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Full-text search
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 * <span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">WebDAV

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; vertical-align: baseline;">Student Portfolios
<span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;">Each student cultivates a unique online space to showcase their best work, and teachers assess performance as it progresses.

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; vertical-align: baseline;">Professional Development
<span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;">Education professionals come together to plan events and share best practices in a flexible, accessible, easy-to-update online resource.

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; vertical-align: baseline;">Project-Based Learning
<span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;">Student groups collaborate on projects that address real-world questions, and share their findings with a real-world audience.

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; vertical-align: baseline;">Student Assignments
<span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;">Teachers post homework, group work, and classroom goals, and update them throughout the year in real time.

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; vertical-align: baseline;">Curriculum Planning
<span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;">Classroom schedules and lesson plans can be tweaked from any computer or mobile device — and reused and re-purposed from year to year.

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; vertical-align: baseline;">Distance Learning
<span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;">Students and teachers share a flexible educational space that’s accessible anytime from anywhere in the world.

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">What's in a wiki?

 * < * <span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Easy-to-use visual editor
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Unlimited pages
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Student accounts with or without email addresses
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Media and widgets from all over the Web
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Easy navigation
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Notification by email or RSS feed ||< * <span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Tags to organize your pages and files
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Complete history of every edit
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Wiki-, page-, and file-level permissions
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Simultaneous editing
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Projects for group work
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Contextual comments and discussions ||

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">What our users say.
> Being able to embed files, links, html coding, videos and other media so easily has meant that Wikispaces has made a great home for me on the Internet. Wikis can be slowly built up and added to from humble beginnings and grow into something quite wonderful. — Martin Burrett > Our Wikispace allows my students to have a 24/7 learning environment, and it is being used as such which is an exciting thing to see. — Craig Kemp > Witnessing the pairs work in class and then communicate using email, wiki discussions, and wiki mail to collaborate with classmates outside their class was invigorating. It also generated conversations about History class outside the walls of my room. It fully utilized the purpose and design of Wikispaces and the outcome was better than I had anticipated. — Larry Bruce =This page is meant as a guide for teachers new to the GESplans wiki.=

How does GESplans work?
The GESplans wiki will be a database for all lesson plans at GES. The site will allow for collaboration between grade levels and co-teaching pairs. GESplans will allow all teachers at GES to view your lesson plans. Additionally, the site will facilitate the implementation of Common Core by providing standards, frameworks, and resources to assist you with the implementation of CCGPS.

How do I upload lesson plans?
You don't! You will keep all lesson plans in a dropbox folder on your computer. You will only share the link on the GESplans site. Other users can click on the link and view your plans. Step-by-step plans follow.

1.) Launch the Dropbox website by clicking on the drop down menu on your menu bar.

2.) Click on the "new folder icon", and create a folder for each subject you teach. 3.) Next, Click on the "get link" button on the right-hand side of the new folder you have created. 4.) A web address will be created. Highlight the address. Hold down control and click copy. 5.) Paste the URL in an email and send to a site organizer. (Mr. Harris or Mrs. Neal)