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Hello everyone! My name is Christy Lawson, and I am currently teaching fourth grade in Tennessee. If you are in my Wiki group and need to contact me, you may email me at glawson8217@charter.net or call me at 423-736-8817. Please realize I live in the Eastern time zone. I am very excited to work with each of you and hope we will create something all teachers will want to access and use regularly. Also, if you have signed up for the Wiki, simply click the EDIT button at the right hand corner of this page and type your information in then click save and it will update.

Hi everyone this wiki is fine. My name is Margaret Josey and I teach grades 1-6th grade.I too live in theEastem time zone, but I am up late at night. My phone number is 518-7737132 this is my home, but I am not home this week I am out of town, but My cell phone is 518-224-0948. I only have my cell phone on when I am away from home if I am home then I do not keep my cell on. My e mail is margaret.josey@waldenu.edu or mjosey@nycap.rr.com I check both all the time so feel free to e mail me at one or theother.Christy just let me know what you want me to do. I never did a Wiki before but I think it is like doing a blog? Is this corret thinking on my part?

Hello my name is Gamal Kemp. I also think think this wiki page is good! I teach 7th grade Life Science. I live in the Eastern time zone as well. My email is gamal.kemp@waldenu.edu or you can reach me on my cell phone number at 404-931-2451. Unfortunately I have never done a wiki page before but I have seen them and know how useful they can be. Christy, just let me know what I need to do, if it is something I am not familiar with it will be fine I am pretty computer savvy so if I do not know how I am quite willing to find out how. I am excited to be apart of this team!

Hello my name is Nick Klug. I like the wiki page but have never used one before. I teach 6th grade Social Studies. I live in the central time zone and my phone number is 320-309-5350 or you can reach me by email at nicholas.klug@waldenu.edu. It sounds like Christy is the wiki expert so just let me know what I need to do! I am looking forward to working with all of you!

Hello all. My name is Tiffany Hollowell and this is my first wiki experience and so far I have no complaints. I live in Japan so am on a completely different time zone. I do have a MagicJack phone number so there should be no issues reaching me: 256-886-6282. I think the Eastern time zone is 13 hours behind me right now and Central is 14 hours, so please keep that in mind since I do have two small children. You can email me either through walden or my personal one at siblacer@hotmail.com. I will be teaching 3rd grade this coming school year at a school on Marine Corps base. Christy, thank you so much for setting this up. I am also excited and look forward to working with each of you.

Okay, we need to identify specific people for our group leader and key communicator. Although we have went through three classes together, I do not know your strengths well enough to assign these positions without some input from each of you. You know your strengths, so please inform me of them. If you would like to take on the role of either position, please feel free to state that fact, and it will save us all valuable time. If you decide to be the group leader, please know we must not wait until the last minute to throw this together; it should be a work in progress over the next few weeks. If you have strong interpersonal skills, step up and be the key communicator; this means you will need to feel comfortable prompting people to stay on task and complete work in a timely manner. If I do not hear from anyone, I will give you guys the positions based on what little information I currently know about you; please do not make me do it this way :) As soon as we have our positions filled, we will need to construct a timeline containing tasks and deadlines. We can do this guys! I am honored to be in your group.

To Wiki group From Margaret: I would like to work on Technology Resources if that is ok with everyone. I do not want to be a group leader Dear Christy I see that there is another page to the Wiki is that where you want us to post our work on the different information we will be working on? The additional page reflects the three categories we are responsible for creating during week six. We can switch them up if needed. All of us can add content and pages as we need to do so; I set the Wiki up to allow only group members to edit and post. Margaret: run with technology; if it is your specialty, this is where we need you most!

To Wiki group from Tiffany: I don't really feel as though I have a particular strength and am willing to do whatever is necessary.

Gamal, I am assigning you to be our group leader; I believe you will lead us to success! Nick, you will be our key communicator and keep us on task. Tiffany, you and I will follow Gamal and Nick's lead. We need to begin implementing our information as soon as possible. I do hope these roles are suited to your needs. If they are not, please let me know quickly.

To Group from Tiffany: I started looking into the uses of wikis and replacements. For some reason I could not find the place on editing to set the margin to the left. Feel free to adjust the margins, or let me know how. I'm going to try to figure it out but at this point thought getting the information was more important than the presentation. Also, I was wondering if we should create a separate page for each of the categories we are working on. I do not mind doing that if someone agrees with me. Another thing, is should we post our messages from the top instead of the bottom so that the first thing we see when logging in is the most recent discussion rather than scrolling down?

To Group from Nick: It looks like we have a start, which is great because it is only monday. My hope is that everyone can have something on here by wednesday. I would like to get this done by friday if possible so we are not pushing the deadline because I am sure we all have things to do with our unit plans. Let me know if there are things you need me to do or help with. I will be checking this many times a day.

To Group from Gamal: Group leader is fine with me :). I am excited we are getting a early start on this assignment. I a trying to put some web links on our wiki ,but I do not know how. Can someone help me with the instructions for this thanks!

To Group from Nick: Take a look at what we have so far and chime in if you think we are missing something or should change something. I took a look at some of the info. and I think it looks great so far!! I will continue looking at the info. and will make recommendations. I believe everyone in our group has contributed so far. Lets keep up the good work!!

To Gamal..From Margaret Have you tried just coping and paste that is how I did it working on my part of the wiki.

To Group ...From Margaret Questions: Do you think that each part should have it's own page? 2nd Do you think that we should have one page for work cited? I think we should, but I did not know how to sent it up. Please let me know what you think. Margaret

To Tiffany from Christy: You can change the margin settings by clicking on the T which is the fourth button from the left once you click Edit; you can change font style and color, background color alignment, and many other options.

To Margaret from Christy: If you would like to create different pages for each heading, I think it would be a great idea. Yes, I believe we must have a works cited page to give proper credit as well. To Group from Christy: We need to add additional technologies to our Wiki such as iPads, iPods, distance learning, Smartboards, ELMOs, Google Earth, and so on. Our Wiki is about Technologies, not just Wikis. I did not understand this until Mr. Griffen clarified the assignment this week. I changed our font to Comic Sans and increased the size to 130%, I thought it gave it a more appropriate appearance and made it much easier to read. Let me know if you are dissatisfied with the changes, and I will gladly change it back.

To Christy ...from Margaret :I would like to see each of us having a page,but I did not know how to set it up with the work already on a page. Does any one else know how to do this?

To the Group from Nick: I think putting them on three seperate pages is great and a works cited is a good idea. Besides being communicator, what else can I do for each section? So far it looks pretty good.

To Nick from Margaret so are you going to set up each new page because I do not know how to do it? Let us know thank you Margaret. Plus I think that when each of us think we are done we should post here and let you know Nick.

To the group from Nick: I am going to try and get each section put on their own pages and yes let me know when you have completed your work. I did add something to the technology part and plan to add somethings to the other 2 parts as well when people say they are done. Thanks for the response Margaret.

To Group from Nick: Each topic now has its own page. They are also in the right order, which took me some time and thanks to a nice lady at wiki, I figured out how to do it! We need more info. in the replacement tech. area and the benefits area. The technology area looks pretty much done. Lets get this thing done!

To Nick and Group I am done, but I had a little problem I kept on having trouble centering my pictures can someone try to fix that problem? Thank you Margaret.

To Group from Tiffany: I think it looks great! Nick, thanks for setting it up with the three seperate pages. I plan to do a little more research tonight.

To Christy from Tiffany: Thank you so much for the margin changing tip! I appreciate it. To Group from Margaret-question The Technology Replacement Ideas first part is very light and hard to read is there a reason why this is like this? 2nd can someone fix my picture problem and get the top picture center? Thank you for your help Margaret.

To Margaret from Nick: Check the pics let me know if they look right, I think I got them fixed. page looks good, great info.

To Nick from Margaret: Yes they are great thank you for your help.

To Group from Margaret: Do not forget to add your references to the reference page of our wiki

To Group from Christy: I added a video, some links, a picture, and some additional information as well to our wiki. I also darkened the contrast of the text that was very light. I think everything looks great! I couldn't have worked with a better group! I believe I am finished Nick.

To the Group from Nick: Nice job!! Everything looks great! You were a great group to work with and we all did a great job!