Wikis

= Wikis = Wikis are a collection of easy to edit web pages. When you create a wiki, you can control who can see it and who can edit it. You can also track any changes, seeing when they were made and by whom.

Using wikis, you can:
 * Organize and share resources with students
 * Have students work collaboratively
 * Present student work to a wider audience

Introductory video - //Wikis in Plain English// from Common Craft.
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**Get started** at @http://www.wikispaces.com/t/x/teach/tho2010 Wkispaces' Teacher Help page offers lots of support and explains how to add different resources to your wiki pages.
 * Wikispaces ** offers K-12 educators free, // ad-free // wikis for educational use. You can also add bulk student accounts even if the students do not have email addresses.

High school
[|Welker's Wikinomics] offers resources for students and teachers of economics. Elizabethan Period is a pathfinder created by a high school librarian to support student research. (Most of the databases on top require an account, but the other resources further down the page are free websites.) Search Tools Wiki

Middle school
Mr Bergmann's 8th grade Science class Ah Bon French offers French beginners in middle school notes, flashcards, videos, and online exercises to use at home for extra practice. In the [|Flat Classroom Project], middle school and high school students from schools around the world collaborate on digital projects. They use additional wikis to organize and post the student projects.

Elementary School
Flat Stanley's Wiki for Stacy Colwell's first grade class at Sutter's Mill School. Each time Stanley visited a new location, the info was added to the wiki page. At Salute to Seuss, participating elementary schools used wiki pages to post student work related to one book by Dr. Seuss. [|Littlewood's Nature Guide] for Littlewood Elementary School's Environmental Center was created by a fifth grade class.

Share Lesson Plans
[|Curriki], a play on the words 'curriculum' and 'wiki', is a nonprofit organization started by Sun Microsystems that is using wiki software to develop an online repository for K-12 curricula and instructional materials in mathematics, science, technology, reading and language arts, and languages.

Browse an annotated list of more educational wikis.

*Wiki Project*
==== Create a wiki for use with your students. Students should be able to collaborate on pages in the wiki and share learning. On Assignment #1, provide the **link** to your wiki. Discuss how you will use the wiki to support your instruction and increase student learning. ====