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Team Projects: Wikis are perfect for team projects. Everyone on the team can add to and edit the group's project on a wiki page. It's as easy as clicking on the "edit" button and adding your content. Older versions of the edited pages are preserved, so students can retrieve earlier work if they want to. This history also lets you view the history of their work and who edited what. You can even leave comments for the students about their project. Other students can leave comments too.
Research Organizer/Journal: Wikis also work well as a place for individual students to keep track of their notes and progress on a research project. Other students, teachers, parents (whoever you give access to) can also view the work and leave comments. See Joyce Valenza's blog post for a suggested outline for this type of wiki.
Student showcases: Students can use wikis as a portfolio of their work. It's easy to create links to other documents that they've created throughout a class. And this gives them a simple way to present all their work and offer reflections on their work as well.
Go Global: Find other classroom partner and collaborate with students around the world.
Examples of wikis in schools and libraries
The Clarion - 7th & 8th grade students at the Charleston (SC) Day School us a wiki to publish their newspaper.
Remember When - Memories of Ipswich -- Ipswich (Queensland) Public Library project to preserve memories and photos of seniors in the community. Great resource for students doing local history projects. I love this project. What a wonderful model for a collaborative community project with any combination of students, seniors, schools & libraries participating.
Flat Classroom Project - Students collaborated to discuss trends from Thomas Friedman's "The World is Flat"
Voices of the World - Classrooms around the world participating in an audio based project. Each month a new task for the students. Fun stuff!
Creekview High School Media Center Research Pathfinder Page - Created with Google Sites, which is very wiki-ish. Owners can invite people to edit pages, easy to edit and organize content, can revert pages back to earlier versions. I don't see a way to let anyone edit if they have a password though, they need to be invited to edit. And though it's easy to add photos and content from other Google owned services (apps, picasa, google gadgets, youtube) there doesn't seem to be a way to add the html code/scripts to add other content (flickr slideshow, etc)
Biology Page on Wikispaces - Example of pulling content from other sources via their RSS feeds and creating a page that updates itself!
Professional Wikis
California 2.0 Currriculum Connections - Companion to California's school library Learning 2.0 project. A place to share ideas for using 2.0 tools in the curriculum.
LMNet Wiki Share ideas and resources with other school libriarians.
Teacher Librarian Wiki Joyce Valenza's terrific resource for sharing: "wisdom and our best instruction--the new understandings, lessons, units, handouts, rubrics, presentations, images, and teaching tips that have been either rotting in our file cabinets or posted and lonely on our individual sites."
Wikispaces for Educators - Remotely hosted and free. Wikispaces provides educators with their PLUS account for free. PLUS account lets you make your wiki private and is ad-free. Users can be added without an email address.
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