Deb+Peachey

My question of what a wiki is has been finally answered and can I use it? I was very interested in most of the educational wikis and how they were set up. Some of the wikis that I found interesting were:

__Mrs. Brahm's Second Grade__ and __Mrs Cassidy's Second Grade__ both of these provided me with ideas how to set up my classroom wiki and some of the items I could include in them. Mrs. Cassidy's classroom also had a page on dinosaurs that I could use when we have our dinosaur unit. It came important facts about Dinosaur and simple pictures that were kid friendly.

__Soar2new heights__ was voted the best educational wiki and received an award in 2009. It provided many pages with how to set up homework assignments, reading and writing activities, podcasats, interactive board games, templates and listed valuable websites.

__Andersonhandcart__ was also a classroom wiki that gave infromation to students as well as their parents. Students assignments were posted on a calendar so the students knew ahead of time what they were going to miss or what they could work on.

__Blackhill and CR 2.0__ gave great resources for the classroom and professional development to promote 21 st Century skills in the classroom. Cr 2.0 used Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies and ways a teacher and student could use them in the classroom.

I would like to use wikis in my classroom for group projects, to list assignments, for parent involvement and also to have a classroom newspaper. All of the wikis I checked out were about using wikis in an early elementary classroom.