Classroom+Wiki+ideas

 A wiki could be used within a classroom in many ways. How about sharing your ideas below?
 * Ways in which to incorporate a wiki in a class room: **
 * 1) A collaborative story - the teacher can begin a story with an introduction, and students can add new paragraphs. Watch and see how the story unfolds as students use their imagination to write the story in their own way, with their individual imaginations and ideas.
 * Practice Example:** Check out and contribute to my collaborative story starter at duvilacki.wikispaces.com (Annique Greenaway 4th Aug, 09)

2. [|Le LeFevre's video on YouTube] is a good illustartion of how to use a Wiki to plan a camp. I know that some students at different colleges in Tasmania plan to go on combined ski camps. They could use a wiki like in LeFevre's example.In the primary classroom where I do my placement I think we could use Wikis for some of our science projects. I can see children enjoying working together making lists of species in different animal groups.

 =3- Another way to use a Wiki in a classroom is for resource sharing.= For example students are working on a project and need to research about a specific topic, therefore a list of links can be produced with an explanation of what you can expect to find in a particular website. This can save students considerable time, spend less time searching more time reading! Students can also learn to organise information and describe relevant content.
 * //Planning classroom excursions //
 * //Brainstorming topic ideas //
 * //Communication between students //
 * //Collaborative projects/assignments //

(Cara Zenner 5/8/09)**
 * 4. In upper primary or secondary grades students could use wikis for peer assessment by giving online feedback on other students' wiki spaces.

=5. Wikis for LOTE= Imagine a story starting in English, than changing into another language and back to English depending on the writer. Students would need to be able to read and translate the language before continuing the story, they might also try to write in the other language and the time difference to the other country would not matter. Communication would be much faster than “snail” mail. Also the cultural exchange between the different students should not be forgotten. The same goes for the use of planning a trip, two different countries, two different climates and seasons. Adding pictures and small movies Geography comes alive. Collaboration, not just between the students in one classroom but two classrooms and in two different countries, the future looks great for LOTE teachers. Antje Petry

6. Fundraising In our school different classes are always trying to find money to aid with camp costs for students or raising money to upgrade a playground or area of the school, why not organise a fundraiser in a wiki? It is a great project for students, and for a great benefit! Vicky Muises-Khoury (7/08/09- 18:17)

====7.Proof readingStudents can proof read a Wiki made by a teacher with multiple spelling and grammar mistakes.It is the classes job to find the mistakes on the wiki and change them together to develop their skills in english.==== Tara Langdon 10/8/09

Children could create links within their space to favourite parts, short blurb, character list and description, rewrite the ending etc. Could be used as a resource that children can also use/refer to to help chose their next book to read. Melinda Gibbons 10/8/09 11.42pm
 * 8. Use a wiki as a class book review/critique collection.**

9. I have actually set up a wiki for my daughter and her best friend to do a project on a imaginary trip to South America that they had to do for SOSE. I found because they do so many sports and othe extra curricular activities and they live a distance from each other and couldn't meet up all the time (they are both 12 years old). It worked really well.

10. A wiki could be used to create a whole class project. Many pages could be used to allow sub-headings within the project. Each student could contribute and I believe it would encourage social interaction as well because students will find conflicting information and they will need to discuss it in order to work out which is correct. The ideas are endless! Sally 13/08/09

11. Working in a special school, I was wondering how to incorporate a wiki into the classroom setting. Our older students undertake work experience every year. The teacher takes photos of the centres the students will attend then makes social stories for the students. This task is completed every year because the students from the prior year like to keep their books. By making A wiki about the centres and the experiences that the students have that can be updated every year will save time and provide a running history of the experience at centres. At the moment I am trying to set up the pages but with my limited technology experience it is taking time. What is it they say practice makes perfect. Carol 15/08/09

12. Maybe a news wiki - as they get through primary school show and tell is not a focus and in the classroom there isn't always time to share. In our classroom the teacher likes to 'publish' her results in the staff footy tipping and many of the students play sports, have sleepovers,etc. Keeping it on a news page could be fun and contribute to the connection between school and 'other life'. Rae 18.8.09

13. Perhaps use a wiki to work collaboratively and interact with another class in another school. A joint project perhaps. The students could work with a local school or an international one. They could share and discuss the differences in their location, culture, society, environment, language, food, housing, sports etc. The list is endless. Sophia 19/8/09

14. A Wiki could be used to create a class story. Each student taking turns to add to the story. Another use could be to track the adventures of a class mascot. The mascot goes home with each student in turn and they can post what they do. We did this latter activity with a prep class, however the children wrote and drew in a scrapbook. Rhonda T. 22/8/09

15. I like the notion of Wiki's being used for class stories. In the grade 3 class that I work in - we are trying to develop wider ranging writer workshop ideas. We constantly have students trying to write stories that are the same, you know, with just the characters magically having different names. A Wiki that has each child adding to it, would potentially turn a story in many different directions. I do get concerned with a student accidentally deleting another students' work. That just means that students need to be taught well in the art of HOW to use a Wiki. Lee Nelson 23/8/09

16. You might have seen two excellent sites on an email from Wikispaces recently - 'Cool Tools for Schools' and 'Getting Tricky with Wikis' - find out about them here []  Another great site is one that shows you how to create templates for your Wikis - []  Thanks for your other great ideas on this wiki - it's a really good read! Cheers Janine 31/08/09