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My Ida School Craft Plus wiki is moving along smoothly. It is being developed in collaboration with Deb Vogel, a lead teacher from Bedford and guru of Craft Plus Writing Program Implementation. Because of so many teacher created items already available, and so many pieces of the program to link together for teachers to use, a wiki is the perfect application to tie everything together. Deb has everything stored on a server and must email all files in an effort to share information. Sharing via a wiki is a simple solution.

The best part of a Craft Plus wiki is that it can grow along with the program and be shared with appropriate staff who need access to a wealth of organized resources.

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I have learned my way around in wikispaces. This is a wonderful application that allows anyone to create a web page with most of the trimmings but without the need to know how to use Html.
In my own development of a wiki, I did learn that I can cause a page to poof into thin air with an errant click! I haven't yet gotten the hang of using the history to reclaim a loss. I am familiar with the basics of managing a wiki but obviously I have more to learn. I find it to be such a useful application that I certainly will persevere and master this challenge.

Check out my addition to http://mcisd21.wikispaces.com/ for some interesting wildlife in Alaska.

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http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com

Tools, tools, tools and more tools. So many tools and great tips provide something for anything you could ever want to do with Web 2.0 applications! I could be lost in this wiki for days!

http://mcisd21.wikispaces.com/
Here is the list of many wikis selected as favorites by others.

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You can have a lot of fun with dumpr.net whenever you feel like being creative. In fact, this application adds all of the creativity I would ever need!

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dumpr.net is just too much fun! Check this out!

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I have been enjoying placing many photos on Picasa. I tend to like the Google applications. Take a look at my favorite place in Northern Michigan. It is relaxing in the summer and a winter wonderland in December. First I saved my photo album of 8 pictures as My Favorite Place. Then I went back to find it as a public album among hundred of thousands of others with a similar name. So I went back and named my album "mcisd23things" and I found it! Sauna, hot tub anyone?

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Now I'm really seeing the possibilites for sharing PowerPoint presentations. I find it amazing to see how many people have visited the ones that I have already shared with the public. One of the best qualities of SlideShare is that you can set the privileges of anything you wish to have posted. For example, if something is to be shared with a specific group or person, that is easily controlled. The viewer doesn't even have to have any special software application on their computer. I can't get past the idea that this is free on the web! The quality of Web 2.0 applications that I have been finding are fabulous. I remember back to the days of the SE30 and the Apple IIe. Remember LOGO? Who would have guessed what I would be doing 25 years later. Education is so interesting at this point in time! Here I am, actually retired, but I don't want to leave education with the technology available today. There is so much more to do. Imagine what 25 years from now will be like with technological advances in the future!