Wikis

Wikis are an online collaborative learning tool. You can set up individual projects for students, use it as an organization tool. You can also set the level of permission for your wiki by making it entirely private and only accessible by password.

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Lesson Plans
Overview Students will use a wiki to gather and edit research information for their project. The project will take place over four week period. Research will include the physical, intellectual, social and emotional development of infants, toddlers, and preschooler. The goal of this project is to provide students with a picture of where the children they will be working with at the Eugene Relief Nursery are developmentally.
 * Ages and Stages of Development**

Resources
Click on this link to find a great list of educational wikis.

Kirsten Haugen has developed an extensive list of resources and examples about wikis

To find out more, check out Miguel Guhlin's site

__4J Teacher Examples__ Elections 2008 - Crista Lawson

Create Student Accounts
For the past three years, we have offered a service to educators where we create accounts in bulk for your students. It has been a pleasure to meet many of you as we helped you get started with your classroom wikis. You'll find that the process to create your student accounts has become even easier - within a few minutes, you can set up your classroom accounts on your own.

If your wiki is on our K-12 plan, go to "Manage Wiki" and then "User Creator" to create the accounts. As always, your students don't need e-mail addresses to enjoy Wikispaces.

For more information, take a look at our blog post: []

Wiki Uses

 * Class Notes
 * Parental / Student Communication
 * Lesson Summaries
 * Handouts
 * Course Syllabus
 * Course Links and Resource Notes
 * School or class calendar
 * Collaboration of Notes
 * Concept Introduction and Exploratory Projects
 * Dissemination of Important Classroom Learning Beyond the Classroom
 * Teacher Information Page
 * Student written books
 * School Newspaper
 * Showcase for student projects
 * Platform for peer review of student work

Wikis For Administrators

 * Build learning communities
 * Extend professional development workshops
 * Provide a storage space for curriculum resources, lesson plans, course materials, tech support tips, and more
 * Build home-school communications
 * Publish web pages (quickly and easily)
 * Digital Directory: With photos and contact information online
 * Make sure everyone knows what's going on
 * Eugene [|website]

Create Your Own Wiki
Wikispaces.com has a free option for educators. Click [|here] to make your own wiki.

Favorite Wiki Discoveries
You can create a template in [|PBWiki] for your students to use.

Wiki Frustrations... HELP!
Please use this link to find a series of video clips that may be helpful. Wiki Support