Using Wikis in Your Classroom

 Today's Agenda

How can wikis improve my lessons?

We'll give you some ideas for using  wikis as well as examples of some we think are quite good.

 

 

Try it out.

You will add a new page of your own to this wiki, put in your picture and link to a favorite site.

 

 

Create your own wiki.

It's as easy as making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich! Hence the name of the site.

 

 

 

 Ideas for using your wiki

• Sharing student writing
• Peer editing
• Book reviews
• Sharing research
• Making a class dicitonary - vocabulary words, content words
• Making a class encyclopedia
• Study Guide - sharing notes for tests, midterms and finals
• Collaborative Textbook
• Poetry Anthology
• Literature Circles
• Progressive Story
• Class Newspaper

 

Links

Examples of Wikis in Action

 

Students in a 9th grade World History Class are writing their own on-line textbook. The teacher's instructions are quite detailed; the students research is very comprehensive. It showcases all facets of multi-media and web2.0

https://brokenworld.wikispaces.com/A+Broken+World

 

 

A poetry unit for upper middle and high school students that utilizes online collaborative tools. It is  extremely comprehensive and integrates all kinds of  technologies including podcasts, wikis, blogs and video.

http://ctap4poetry.pbwiki.com/

 

Fifth grade reading classes discuss the novel Turn Homeward, Hannalee by Patricia Beatty.

http://wiki.woodward.edu/hannalee/doku.php

 

An example of HS collaborative writing on a social studies topic. 

http://schools.wikia.com/wiki/Triangular_Trade_Gallery 

 

 

 

 

Study Skills created by 6th graders. 

http://studyskills6.wikispaces.com/

 

An interactive story created by third and fourth graders.

http://terrythetennisball.wikispaces.com

 

 

A work in progress by Rebecca Schalick's fifth grade language arts class.

http://schalickwms.pbwiki.com/

 

This same information on a different wiki site

http://w-pwikiworkshop.wikispaces.com/

 

 

Resources for Building Your Own Wiki

 

 PeanutButterWiki: Free and Easy 

http://pbwiki.com 

 

Basic directions for using PBWiki

wikidirections

 

Brief videos of teachers talking about using wikis

http://educators.pbwiki.com/PBwiki%20educator%20videos

 

How to upload files and photos into pbwiki

http://pbwiki.com/videos/AddFiles.swf

 

More ideas for using wikis. Some for your own use, others can be adapted to the classroom

http://yummy.pbwiki.com/Ideas%20for%20using%20PBwiki

 

WikiSpaces: Although not as simple as PBWikis, fairly easy to use and has the tab effect of WikiPedia. Free but with ads.

http://www.wikispaces.com/

 

DoKuWiki: Another free wiki for those who want all the bells and whistles. Mutli-media intensive

http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:dokuwiki