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The Time4 Online wiki provides you with a collaborative tool to network and discuss the ideas provided in the workshop presentations. This "Time2 Explore" wiki page is a place where you can become familiar with the wiki tool before you add comments to other pages (to be created) in more formal discussions later on during the conference.

A wiki is a collaborative online area. Anyone, anywhere can edit a wiki. Wikis can be used by groups of people to form ideas and contribute to a shared document. Or as [|Wikipedia] states "wikis make an effective tool for mass collaborative authoring".
 * What is a wiki for?**


 * What can you write about here?**
 * You may want to share your ideas, interests and experiences, ask questions or network with others, or
 * You could contribute your thoughts on Web 2.0 based on your prior knowledge, or what you heard or read in the [|Pre-Conference Preview workshop]. For example, //What do you know about Web 2.0? What do you think about it? Have you used Web 2.0 personally or professionally? How? What potential ideas or applications for learning can you see Web 2.0 could enable?//

We hope that you enjoy this professional online learning experience! For technical help and support, contact Sarah or Anne at ictpdonline@core-ed.net.

To add to the content of this page, click on the "Edit This Page" link at the top. Type in your content and then save the page (at bottom). For a more detailed description of how to use the wiki toolbar, click on the 'How 2 Edit This Wiki' page.
 * How do you use this wiki?**


 * Contributions:**

Hi there. I'm Jill Hammonds - one of the conference organisers and part of the ICT PD National Support Facilitation team working for Core Education. I love the online environment, and my hope for this conference is to share some of my passion for the ways that use of Web 2.0 can expand the horizons of your classroom and your students. Your students can now be global learners, regularly in touch with experts in their field of inquiry, and building new knowledge as well discovering the currently existing. Check in here regularly to find out how.

Most of my work time online is in the Interact area, and personally I have used blogs, but not a wiki, so I am having a good time playing with this tool - a benefit I just discovered after deleting something, not keeping a copy of it, and THEN realising I need it is the **history area** on the nav bar at the top!!! Hooray, now that is a fine feature. A key benefit for learning that I can see with Web 2.0 tools (as a parent of a five year old who is definitely NOT a star reporter for the "what did you do at school today?" daily rag) is that his new class blog will give me a chance for some insight into what he has been doing during the day! Links between home/community and school are stronger and more available when teachers, students and parents use these tools. - Sarah

My name is Suzie Vesper and I am a little the opposite to Sarah. I have spent more time playing on wikis than blogs and really enjoy working in this type of space. I have put most of my presentation material on this wiki as I enjoy being able to easily create content with embedded objects from other sites. I have added the notes on publishing videos and slideshows and look forward to interacting with people during the conference. While I haven't used these tools in a classroom context myself due to the fact that I am an ICT facilitator at the moment, I can see the huge potential they have and consider myself lucky that I have time to explore these tools in my role.

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Hi Jill, I guess my experiences with web 2.0 have mostly been as an ICT Facilitator. This year I made it my professional goal to get to grips with blogging, and started my facilitator blog. From this I have gone on to explore wiki's campfires, widgets and all sorts of beasties! One of my essential tools now is Google calendar, and several of my cluster schools are now using it to organise their school life! The power of web 2.0 is the power to share. It is the ability to involve and engage others that makes it a truly amazing experience. As this technology grows I am sure that we will see the nature of learning at school change radically...our walls are slowly turning transparent! Iain Cook-Bonney