wikis

Wikis for PD

Intel - Teach to the Future now has a wiki for the class. Cindy Lane uses a wiki for Google Earth teaching Using a wiki for copyright awareness It is challenging to get teachers to use wikis. They don't always share our enthusiasm. Saw some problems with teachers correcting other teachers spelling and grammar. Is there a way to search for wikis? Some schools block wikis Set up wiki for science teachers. It is taking time for the teachers to start using. Technology integration learning team uses a wiki instead of meeting as often. Use wiki museum for teachers to share how they their the own wikis in their class work. Students writing their own textbook on a wiki. Next year's student revise the wiki. It's an ongoing conversation with the students from year to year.

Students create their own Wikipedia entry.

Use wikis for study guides for teachers.

Use wikis for daily summaries

Wikis are one place for putting everything. Wikis are open 24/7.

Wikispaces allows teachers to set up student accounts without email accounts

Gmail hack. Set up a teacher account mrteacher@gmail.com. Students use your email account plus a number, mrteacher+1@gmail.com

Moodle offers a wiki

Trainer posts menus on wikis. Teachers change their menu. It's good practice using a wiki.

Teacher is going to use a wiki on supreme court cases. Students will post info on a case and other students will comment.

Used a wiki to divide up work for a grant application

Have their tech plan on a wiki Used wiki for collaboration on a new project. It lowered the amount of face-to-face meetings.

Tracking changes is powerful

Google Docs is a collaborative wiki