Julie+Henry

21 st Century Educational Technology and Learning http://21centuryedtech.wikispaces.com/ This had some great resources as to ways you can use technology in your classroom. I am really interested in the Mouse Mischief system. No smartboard is required for these interactive lessons. All you need is a projector, screen, wireless mice, and USB hubs and you can create interactive lessons for students.

1000 Names http://1000names.wikispaces.com/ I thought this was an interesting idea. The students in this class were interested in seeing what 1000 looked like so the teacher created a wiki to have anyone from around the world add their name to the wiki until they reached 1000.

Web 2.0: Cool Tools for Schools http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/ This wiki has links to various web 2.0 tools that teachers can use in their classroom. I could see myself using this wiki in my classroom as a resource for various web 2.0 tools.

Eat Me! http://eatme.wikispaces.com/ This wiki is used for students to try to persuade people why they should eat certain foods. This would be such a neat idea to use in the classroom. The students could collaborate on any give topic and try to persuade people to take their side. You could even allow anyone to edit the page to get viewpoints from outside of your classroom.

﻿As far as a wiki I could use for my classroom, I could use it for research projects. I could have each group research a particular topic and then, create their own page which would contain all of the information they researched for the rest of the class to see. By having each group create their own page, all of the students could be working at the same time and not have to worry about whether another student or group was in the document. Also, I could use it for editing papers. The students could post their papers on their own page in the wiki and then, other students can go in and edit their peers' papers. Another way I could use it is as an informational tool for parents. I could have each student (or groups of students) responsible for maintaining one page of the wiki. Parents could access the wiki to see what students had for homework, any important announcements, or recaps of events that occurred in the classroom.