OERNZ/wikitaster/Wiki-taster materials (For participants)

''Welcome to this OERNZ Wiki-taster. A Wiki-taster is a short professional development opportunity to help teachers get started with collaborative Open Education Resource (OER) development the wiki way under Aotearoa's ground breaking OERNZ project.''

''You will join the WikiEducator family, one of the world's fastest growing wiki projects in the formal education sector. To paraphrase Mahatma Gandhi: "You can be the change you want to see in the OER world". New Zealand teachers are joining the global education community using digital technologies as an enabler to return to the core values of teaching -- that is, to share knowledge freely.''

''The Open Education Resource for New Zealand (OERNZ) initiative is a national project designed by Kiwi teachers for Kiwi teachers. OERNZ is co-sponsored by the Ministry of Education in partnership with the OER Foundation under the reusable and portable content priority of the Managed Learning Environment initiative. OERNZ aims to nurture and support the development of a national OER commons for our schools. These wiki-taster sessions form part of the capability and community development stream of the OERNZ project.''

What is a wiki-taster?
A wiki-taster is:


 * A short 90 - 120 minute face-to-face professional development opportunity to help teachers get started with contributing to the OERNZ project
 * Arranged by one of our Kiwi educators who volunteered to share their knowledge of this amazing technology as an OERNZ facilitator.
 * Where possible, presented at your school.

Feel free to register your interest to host a free wiki-taster at your school. We will do our best to arrange a facilitator to visit your school and run a wiki-taster session. As all resources are distributed under a free content license which you are free to reuse, adapt, modify and redistribute -- we encourage you to run your own Wiki-taster sessions to build Kiwi capability for the OERNZ project.

Step 1: Getting to the "Create account" page
Your first activity is to get to the right page where you can create a new account. This is accessed from WikiEducator's home page.

Step 2: Click on the "Create an account" link
WikiEducator distinguishes between two types of users:


 * 1) Users who already have a log-in account;
 * 2) New users who don't yet have an account. (As you have registered for this Wiki-taster we expect that you fall into this second category).

The next activity demonstrates how new users can get to the correct screen for creating a new account.