Lisa+Stroup

This is my Wikipage.

As I was exploring educational wikis, I found several that I really liked and found potentially useful. Some of these sites include: []- We talked about this site in class. Students could use this for vocabulary. They could edit the definitions of words within a vocabulary capacity. A word of the day could be nominated by the students. My kindergarten could use this wiki by exploring new vocabulary words and their meanings.

http://abcreadingclub.wikispaces.com/- This wiki discusses each book that a particular class reads. The students can make comments about the content of the book. This would be useful as a great way to do a book report or evaluation of the book for your class. In Kindergarten, we could use this for our Junie B. Jones series.

http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/- This is a really cool wiki that explores the elements of Bloom's taxonomy and the levels of higher order thinking skills. Students could then utilize the 21st Century Learning skills of higher level thinking skills. This is definitely useful as we try to get students to think outside the box.

If I were going to do a classroom wiki for Kindergarten class, I would set it up similar to the ABC Reading Club wiki listed above. I would post the current book we are reading in class and have the students comment about favorite parts of the book. They could include favorite characters or plots. It could also be an excellent way to have students analyze the beginning, middle, or ending of the plot as required in Kindergarten. This would really help the students develop their writing skills as well.