Wikis+to+check+out

A wiki is a webpage or a collection of webpages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content. Wikis are often used to collaborate between students and educators.

=Using a Wiki as a class website = Cwojtera has a wiki for her grade one classroom. She also has a [|blog.] B-7 Bobcats wiki - a first grade class website JAbernathy has a wiki for her grade 5 classroom. Rachel Boyd in New Zealand has a wiki for her grade 1 (5 and 6 year old students).

=Project Wikis = Winter Wonderland project wiki - I joined this wiki and contributed two winter projects. If you click on Grade 1 and my name Mrs. Lynch you will see them. A playground wiki from St. Johns School Celebrating Communities Quebec Communities Polar Bear Project - This is a 5th grade project in Massachusetts, U.S.A..

=Wikis To Give Information to Teachers = Sue Waters has a super wiki on blogging - how to.. use blogs, use del.iciou.us, flickr, Ning, etc.

Colin Becker has an amazing wiki on how to be a better blogger -31 Day Challenge. He gives lots of information, suggestions and help. Sue Waters has a lot of comments here, too. Educational Wiki-This wiki has lots of examples of educational wikis. My Mind to Your Mind is another wiki full of "how to" s for web 2.0 tools. I love how she made the title - Maximize your PLN. She used flickr spelling. Sue Waters featured how to do that in one of her posts on the Edublogger -[|Quick Start Tips for New Flickr Users: Part lll.] She also explains how to use Dumpr in this post. LEARN Recit wiki - Susan van Gelder and Christiane Dufour of Learn set up this wiki to give information to teachers. Check out the QuebecLearnConnect wikispaceto learn about wikis - what they are, what you can do with them and how to create one. The LEARN -Connect wiki has a lot of other information, too. Voicethread for Education Learn how to join a Social Network with Steve Hargadon's Wikispace [|Classroom 2.0 Wikispace] - There are all kinds of resources and information here. [|Support Blogging] This is an amazing wiki with links to all kinds of blogs.