Wikis

[|Blogs, Wikis, Docs: Which is Right for Your Lesson - A Comparison Table] - try this link to see which tool you should/could use.

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Why Wiki?
 * **easy and quick to set up**
 * **simple to add content and change the look and feel**
 * **FREE!**
 * **easy collaboration with other students and/or schools**
 * **can be password protected**
 * **gets your students and parents online**
 * **can add text, pictures, video, slideshows, etc**

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[|Wikispaces.com]- This site offers educators free K-12 Plus wikis, and is the site we used to create this wiki. [|Peanut Butter Wiki (pbWiki)]- Allows you to make a free wiki site in 30 seconds. It's as easy as making a peanut butter sandwich. [|WetPaint]- free wikis can be created here.
 * Where to build a wiki:**

[|What is a Wiki] - a great article thatanswers the question: what's so good about wikis. [|Ways to Use a Wiki] - a list created by a group of teachers at a conference. Getting Tricky with Wikis- a fantastic site that shows how how to do a lot of advanced stuff with your wiki, as well as the basics. [|10 Best Practices for Using Wikis in Education]- a really useful blogpost from [|Technology Teacher]. It focuses a lot on getting students and groups of people to work collaboratively with a wiki. [|The State of Wikis in Education] - This article comes mostly deals with much older students, but there are some general ideas about using wikis in education that could be applied to primary school. [|Wiki in a K-12 Classroom] - Some ideas for using wikis in the classroom. [|Wikis for Web-Based Storytelling: A Case Study] - This paper presents a case study where primary level students (Grade 4-6) used a Wiki for collaborative storytelling. The paper reports observations on the collaborative process that took place during the activity. It also describes the activity in sufficient detail to allow a technically sophisticated teacher to use it in the classroom, and makes recommendations on how the Wiki could be improved to better support collaborative storytelling by young children. [|Wiki Wisdom: lessons for Educators] - a great article from Education Week about using wikis in education [|Wiki Ideas for the Classroom] - provides wiki ideas for different subjects and age levels and gives you information about getting a wiki started.
 * Learn more about creating wikis for your class:**

yrps5m - a wiki from a grade five class in Australia. Terry the Tennis Ball- a 'choose your own adventure' style wiki created by a yr 3/4 class in Australia dhespanol - a wiki for Spanish classes Morpheus Fortuna- an up-to-date version of an older idea for younger classes. Mrs Abernethy's Global Gorillas- a 5th grade class from the US ourlandia- a great class project Monster Makers - a collaborative monster making idea smithclass- a 4th grade wiki [|Wikis in the Classroom] - a very large list of wikis created by teachers
 * Examples of Wikis in Education:**

China Trip Wiki Math in Year 6

A Reading Wiki