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This is A trial Page that Has been made to Go along with the first whole faculty discussion on the use of ICT in Codrington School. It is designed to show how a range of different platforms can be used in the school although different ones may be applicable at different levels. The two we will concentrate on are Moodle and Wikispaces although there is plenty of scope to use others such as blogging platforms like blogger or posterous.=====
 * =====In the secondary school wikipages are used for e-portfolios[[image:http://lisewagner.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/wikispaces-logo.jpg width="259" height="72" align="right"]]=====
 * =====They have also been used in interdisciplinary weeks where there was a requirement for collaborative work. Wikis are great for collaboration.=====
 * =====They are easy to set up, easy to personalise and very accessable.=====
 * =====Students, teachers and parents can contribute to areas of the wiki although the teacher retains control.=====
 * =====The same with eportfolios - the student retains control but can invite people to contribute to the wiki e.g. the teacher=====
 * =====The level of privacy is set by the user.=====
 * =====By stating that it is used for education wikis become advertising free.=====


 * Wikispaces are very flexible in what you use them for:**
 * Large scale collaborations involving many children e.g. http://elliotsealy.wikispaces.com (inter-disciplinary session on sustainability)
 * Small scale collaborations between just a few children with different tasks e.g. PYP Exhibition
 * Individual e-portfolios e.g. http://codrington-eportfolio.wikispaces.com has links to most of the students eportfolios.
 * Your class wiki can be used to put calenders, tasks, examples of student work, reflections, videos, links, games (educational), web 2 tools such as collaborative mindmaps. The choice is yours. You need to just keep experimenting.
 * However be careful of the privacy settings. It is more open than Moodle which has settings which mean nobody but those with the password can gain access to certain areas.