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=Getting Started= Look around in this wiki site to discover the infinite possibilities of building a wiki for use in classroom instruction, administative planning, collaborative learning, and distance learning. To the left are listed the pages of this wiki: Create a Teaching Wiki, Discovering the Wiki, Building the Wiki Shell and so on. Put the cursor over any of those page titles and simply click. Technology will take you to a new diminsion of possiblity for engaging students and educators in the twenty-first century of learning and sharing.

=Bringing Wikis to Your School= This wiki site has all the information you need to bring wikis to the center of your educational world. Each page of the wiki adds a new dimension to what is proving to be the most flexible collaborative tool of our time. Wikis are not only made for text, they are springboards for creativity, repositories for information, and windows into the worlds around us…even worlds across the globe. Entering text into the wiki is as easy as entering text into a Word document!

Even though this site provides all the information and guidance you need to get wikis going in your school, an on-site facilitator offers confidence to the reticent, sparks creativity in the early adaptor, and builds confidence among the apprehensive.

=Contact Me= Are you interested in bringing the tools of wiki buiding to your teachers and students? Feel free to use this wiki site as a framework for your tutorial or contact me and let's plan a series of wiki-building dates that will lead your learners into the twenty-first century of a global society and prepare them for a future we can only begin to imagine.