Welcome

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Hello soon-to-be wikiambassadors! Welcome to our WikiEducator skills training workshop for Secondary School Librarians. This two and a half day hands-on face-to-face activity, hosted by NALIS and facilitated by the Distance Education Unit, Ministry of Education, will equip you with the wiki skills needed to start developing content immediately.

Purpose of the Workshop

This workshop was born out of a need for the development of a repository of lesson plans and resources (particularly with a Caribbean focus) to aid the implementation of the Library and Information Literacy Curriculum in secondary schools in Trinidad & Tobago. The selected school librarians attended a one-day Lesson Planning Workshop, conducted by an officer from the Curriculum Development Division, Ministry of Education.

It is hoped that this workshop will sensitize school librarians to the potential wikieducator holds for the development of library and information literacy skills training and will foster a zeal for using wikieducator in creative ways. As newly annointed wikiambassadors, participants of this workshop will be encouraged to spread the wiki word and become active members of an ever widening local as well as regional wikicommunity and to contribute to regional as well as local L4C initiatives, long after the workshop has ended.

Competency

According to the Skills Development Framework for Wikieducators,at the end of this workshop, you would have at least attained a competency level of WikiApprentice Level 2. Eager to get started? Well let's go!

Objectives

At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

explain the benefits of wikis and other web 2.0 technologies
explain the concept of free content
describe the four Creative Common Licenses
create an account in wikieducator
edit and format text
create new pages and links
upload images, files and multimedia
communicate and collaborate in wiki
structure content within wiki
use pedagogical templates to create a learning resource
use basic wikieducator tools to collaboratively author and publish content on wikieducator

Agenda

Day 1: April 14th, 2009

Day 1: Home assignment

Day 2: April 15th, 2009

Day 3: April 16th, 2009

Tutorials at a Glance

Mini Lesson 1: Creating an account

Mini Lesson 2: Editing Basics

Mini Lesson 3: Basic Text Formatting

Mini Lesson 4: Creating New Pages and Links

Mini Lesson 5: Uploading images, files and multimedia

Mini Lesson 6: Collaborative content authoring and editing

Mini Lesson 7: Communication and interaction within wikieducator

Mini Lesson 8: Using pedagogical wiki templates

Mini Lesson 9: Thinking about structure

Resources

Wiki Syntax Cheat Sheet revised

Wiki Syntax for available templates

Confirmed Participants

LAST NAME	FIRST NAME	GENDER	ORGANIZATION	PROFESSIONAL DESIGNATION	EMAIL	LEARNING CONTRACT
Grant-Fraser	Elia	Female	Ministry of Education Distance Education Unit & NOSTT	Courseware Manager, Workshop Facilitator	eliamgf@yahoo.com	Signed
Wrenel	Roberts	Male	Ministry of Education Distance Education Unit & NOSTT	Multimedia Specialist, Workshop Facilitator	wrenelroberts@gmail.com
Cherrie	Maria	Female	School Library Services (SLS) Educational Library Services Division (ELSD)	Librarian III (Ag.) Workshop host
Phillip	Payne	Male	Sixth Form Government school	Librarian I (Ag.)
Heywood	Renee	Female	St. Joseph's Convent, POS	Librarian I (Ag.)
Warrick	Yasmin	Female	Fatima College	Librarian I
Valentine	Sheryl	Female	Arima Central Secondary	Librarian I (Ag.)
Maharaj	Rupa	Female	Lakshmi Girls	Librarian I (Ag.)
Sookram	Savitree	Female	Pt. Fortin East Secondary School	Librarian I (Ag.)
Daniel-Fraser	Allison	Female	ASJA Girls' San Fernando	Librarian I (Ag.)
Hosein	Sharlene	Female	Waterloo Secondary School	Librarian I (Ag.)
Balliram	Savita	Female	Corinth Sixth Form School	Librarian I (Ag.)
Jarvis-Patrick	Joanne	Female	El Dorado East Secondary School	Librarian I
Sastoo	Judy	Female	Iere High School	Librarian I
Mc Carthy	Jacqueline	Female	SLS, ELSD	Librarian III
Seetahal	Hazel	Female	SLS, ELSD	Librarian III
Greene	Rachael	Female	SLS, ELSD	Librarian III (Ag.)	rachaelwg@gmail.com
Romain	Catherine	Female	ELSD, NALIS	Systems Librarian
Greene	Paula	Female	Information Networks Division, NALIS	Librarian IV (Ag.)