About+This+Wiki

=About this WikiSpace =

The Purpose and Goal of this Wiki
 The purpose of this wiki is to serve as an educational starting point for people who are interested in place-based education and are looking for more information. We hope that this resource is beneficial to all- administrators, parents, teachers, students, and community members. This wiki was created for a Masters level Educational Reform course in July, 2010.

Context
 The concept map on the home page of this wiki is designed with two goals in mind.


 * 1) The first goal is for the map to be a navigational tool for this place-based education resource. It is organized in a way that we, the authors, thought to be most logical.
 * 2) The second goal of this is concept map is to serve as a guide to what is 'out there.' In other words, just because a word is not linked to a page in the wiki does not mean that it doesn't exist. It simply indicates that we didn't have the resources and time to include it within this wikispace.

Status
 As of July 26, 2010 this wikispace is in the final stages of editing and refinement. It currently serves as a working wikispace that we hope interested users will find helpful.

Authors
 The authors of this wikispace are graduate students in the Secondary MAC (Master of Arts with Certification) program at the University of Michigan. Our teaching areas are: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Math, English, Social Studies, History, and Political Science.

(a shoutout to the online tool that made this wikispace possible)
The concept map was created using [|bubbl.us] -- a free, intuitive online concept mapping tool that supports collaboration with multiple users, much like a wiki.

Within bubbl.us, the text label of any concept bubble can be converted to a link by adding the link address in front of the text and putting the text in brackets. For example typing the following in a bubble: http://www.google.com[Google] will create a link in the text bubble that looks and works like this: [|Google].

Finally, the concept map can be embedded in your wikispaces page as follows:
 * 1) Click on the "Menu" button on the lower right of any bubbl.us sheet and choose the "HTML embed code" option.
 * 2) Copy the resulting html embed code from the box on the bubbl.us page and insert it as a widget in your wikispaces page, by
 * 3) Clicking the "Widget" button on the Edit menu bar, selecting the "Other HTML" tab, and copying the embed code from bubbl.us into the box
 * 4) You may also wish to alter the size of the embedded box by changing the width and height parameters within the embedded html codes.