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= = = Welcome to the 8th grade American History Wiki at Barnhart School! =



=__// See our AMAZING Work at the Natural History Museum of LA County in the 2010-2011 school year! //__= media type="youtube" key="M9tsDp6Brg4" height="390" width="480"

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==//Below you will see the RSS Feed for our Class Twitter - Tolnai_Learning. You can see tweets by Mrs. Tolnai right here or you can click on the link to take you to your Twitter account to respond. Have a twitter-ific day!!! //==

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// What is a wiki? // A wiki is a webpage that can be edited by anyone who has access to it.The changes you make will appear to anyone who views it. All of your actions are public.

// Why are you on this wiki? // This webpage is a really exciting educational tool that will allow us to share our thoughts and view resources that are valuable to our learning in the classroom.

// What responsibilities do you have in this forum and with this technology? // Because all of your actions are recorded and saved online, you have to consider your voice and your language. When you are responding to questions or threads of responses, choose words that you are proud of. Make sure that you are considerate of the opinions and viewpoints of your peers. As your teacher, I approve and view all of your words on this site, so make sure to always produce your best work.

// What are my expectations of you on this wiki? // 1. Communicate with each other respectfully and kindly. 2. Meet your deadlines.

// What settings should I check and how? // This wiki is meant to be used for educational purposes only. Therefore, you should have no need to privately email any other class members through this site. Please make sure you adjust the following settings in your account.

PLEASE ONLY ALLOW PRIVATE MESSAGES (aka wiki emails) FROM MRS. TOLNAI: - Go to "My Account" - Go to "Settings" - Go to "Allow private messages from" - Pull down to option 3 ("Organizers of wikis that I belong to") - Click on "Save"

PLEASE DO NOT "MONITOR" ANY DISCUSSION: - Make sure the box next to "Monitor this discussion" is never checked, otherwise you will receive emails to your own email account any time another students enters a response.