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This video is meant to serve as an introduction to my fellow high school faculty about the features available on Wiggio. My principal is very interested in finding ways for students to have meaningful technological experiences and interactions, and what better tool than a FREE web 2.0 wiki? I see this video as a kind of teaser for the features of Wiggio - something that I would be able to show before a training session on how to actually set up an account and start using it. Because my students are currently using Wiggio to construct their writing porfolios, I am also considering using it to show to parents at the end of the year before the students demonstrate their writing in this electronic format. No matter my audience, my goal was to propose a meaningful and realistic solution to our questions about how to incorporate technological literacy into our school environment.

I made this video using Movie Maker, Myna from Aviary, Audacity, and PowerPoint, Jing, and Gimp. I also used several file conversion tools that I discovered during my Tool Shed project. The list of complete references for the project is listed at the end of the video.

Just a note: The screen images of students holding up signs in the opening of my video are originally from a YouTube video called A Vision of Student's Today (cited at the end of the video). I wanted to mention here that the video was made by Mike Wesch and "is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License." According to the author, people are "welcome to download it, share it, even change it, just as long as you give [him] some credit and you don't sell it or use it to sell anything." Though I am featuring Wiggio, I am not selling it; rather, I am trying to introduce it as a tool that my fellow faculty can use to incorporate meaningful technological instruction.