How to Create a Wikispaces Classroom Website without coding (Udemy.com)

Improve your Students' Achievements and Help Them Engage in an Online Environment with Web 2.0 tools

( 8 Reviews )

Created by: Amany H. Alkhayat

Produced in 2017

What you will learn

Design a classroom wiki.
Add or invite students to teachre's wiki.
Design and manage course pages.
Utilize and manage classroom projects.
Embed video files related to their courses
Assess their students performance for a specific project.
Practice adding widgets.
Monitor students' online interactions.
Evaluate students' engagement in assigned projects
Create templates
Demonstrate understanding of the difference between a teacher's platform interface and a student's platform inteface of the wikispaces
Create and edit pages and/or tasks

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Overall Score : 98 / 100

Course Description

Wikispaces classroomis an online platform that enables you as a teacher to help students collaborate in an engaging educational environment. Research indicates that using Wikispaces improves students' learning outcomes and performance(Oprea, 2016). It also encourages interactionsamong students through peer-editing and projects. It also enhances interactionbetween teachers and students as well (Singh, Harun and Fareed, 2013).
In this course you will learnthe method of creating a professional wikispaces classroom website. The course focuses on areas by which you can maximize the learning process through creating pages, making your students participate inprojects in which peer editing takes place. You will also learn how to embedcreative widgets that will encourage your students to engage more. This course also examines ways in which teachers can assess their students' performance and track their progress as well. Eventually, This course is a professional development for every teacher, like you, who is looking for an optimal teaching experience.

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References:

Oprea, M. (2016, July). WIKISPACES CLASSROOM-A COLLABORATIVE E-LEARNING PLATFORM FOR THE TEACHING OF PHYSICS. In The International Scientific Conference eLearning and Software for Education (Vol. 3, p. 229). " Carol I" National Defence University.

Singh, A. K. J., Harun, R. N. S. R., & Fareed, W. (2013). Affordances of Wikispaces for collaborative learning and knowledge management. GEMA: Online Journal of Language Studies, 13(3), 79-97.
Who this course is for:
EFL/ESL teachers, lecturers, Instructors, professors and educatorsELA school teachers

Time: 1.5h

Instructor Details

Amany H. Alkhayat

4.9 Rating
8 Reviews

Amany is an ESL Instructor, Educational Technology specialist, and accreditation reviewer. She has been teaching ESLin Higher Education for 19 years in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the USA. She also taught many courses such asLinguistics, Computer Assisted Language Learning, Introduction to Computational Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, and Corpus Linguistics . She's been training teachers to incorporate technology in the classroom for many years.She published a number of research papers and gave presentations in TESOL International, INTED and EDULEARN.
Conference Proposals Reviewing
TESOL international since 2010- 2016 (Reviewing Proposals for ESP and IEP interest-sections)
SITE (Society for Information technology and Teacher Education) (Reviewing submitted Papers to the conference) 2013
A member of SITE program Committee 2012
Advisory Board member of the Global Education Conference 2010
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Conferences and research Activities
KSAALT Annual Conference, KSA 2014
Using Corpora in the EFL Classroom
English Language Forum, Prince Sultan University, KSA 2014
Flipped Classroom: Research and Challenges
ELT Forum, Prince Sultan University, KSA, 2013
Infographics as an Effective Learning Tool

TESOL Arabia 2012 "Creativity in the Classroom with Alice"
45th Annual TESOL Convention, March 1719, 2011, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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