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**Welcome to our Wikispace!**
Besides being fun to //say//, a wiki can be fun to //use//! A wiki is a simple website that can promote transparent collaboration. You can post images, slideshows, maps, podcasts, videos, PowerPoints, graphs, and tables. Not only can you articulate your ideas, you can read, edit, and critically review your peers’ work. This page is a "live page" that anyone in our class can edit. Each of you will set up our own pages, too. You can find reports that have been posted on the right. Everyone in the class will create a page in this wikispace, named with their first and last name, so the list will continue to grow with each participant's report.

After we post the the beginnings of our reports... we will work together to help each other by directly editing each other's work! Let's say, for example, you notice a misssspelllling on this page. You can correct it! I can always see the "history" of my page and undo any changes I don't like or don't agree with. We'll also be able to discuss each other's pages--much like we did within the course discussion boards. Simply use the discussion tab to give your colleagues any suggestions, advice, share insights or compliments you may have, or to ask questions or for clarifications. I encourage you to consider throughout this process how you might use wiki technology in your own classroom--or perhaps consider some cross-class collaboration for the coming year.

>>>After you join wikispaces and your course membership is approved, you can post your page and add comments to other's pages!
 * First, Join WikiSpaces **
 * Join wikispaces by clicking the "join" tab in the top right corner of this page (black bar).
 * When asked if you would like to create your own wiki click "No".
 * Wikispaces will ask you to confirm your email. You will not be able to continue to Step 2 before confirming your email, so please make sure that your email is confirmed. (Please be sure to check your bulk/spam mail folder.)
 * Step 2: Course Wiki 2012 membership**
 * 1) Congratulations! You are now a member at Wikispaces. In that case you can now join our wiki.
 * 2) Click "Join this Wiki." A link should show up on the upper left.
 * 3) Wait for your membership to be approved (this should happen within 24 hours)

Adding your page.

 * Click on the "+" symbol next to **Pages and Files** (above right) to create your own page. **Please name it with your first and last name. I'll add your name if you don't or forget to :-) **
 * Below the box where you name your page (with your FIRST LAST name), **consider adding tags**. For example, if you put in "feeder" or "behavior" it will help people search for your report if they want to look at all the reports that are similar to their "feeder" or "behavior" study.
 * Click on the **EDIT** button (above right) to add or change content on any page.
 * Use the **DISCUSSION** tab (directly above) to comment any page in our wikispace.

For More Support

 * Never used a wiki? Don't worry, there's help available, both from these "how to" pages I've created, and from the Help link (top right of any page). There are also dozens of help videos on YouTube.
 * How to Add a Page, Edit a Page, Post your Graph
 * Brand new to wikispaces? Check out this "map" of a wikispaces page.

**Wikispace expectations for WEEK 2 of the course...**
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Post the first two parts of your investigation report (Introduction, Materials and Methods) to your own wikipage (due Friday, July 6)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Post a response (via the discussion tab) and add any edits to the reports of __your partners__ (due Sunday, July 8). You may review others as well!
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">For Week 3 (beginning July 9): Please begin collecting your data! We'll post graphs next week! **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Peer Review
<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Editing someone's work and posting criticisms can feel a little intimidating at first--especially since we haven't actually met each other. That said, I hope you'll take this risk in the spirit of good science, professional development, and everyone pushing ahead to complete their best work. We are a community of "critical friends" and scientists. **You may want to ask yourself these questions as you complete your edits and then peer review this week:**
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Are there any spellings or errors that I can quickly edit for my partner?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Does the introduction give me sufficient understanding of their problem/question?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Has my partner included background information in the introduction that sheds light on his/herr issue? What other background information do I need to make sense of this problem?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Are my partners' materials and methods clear enough that I could repeat the study if I wanted to? If not, what is missing?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Are these methods the best way to investigate this issue? Is the data being collected the right kind of data that will help answer the question? Are there enough trials? If not, what improvements can I suggest?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Does it seem that this study can be reasonably completed in 7-10 days? If not, can I suggest any simplifications?