Wikis+for+Students

Welcome. The intention of this section is to provide examples of how Wikis are being used in classrooms and with students.

 * Wikis are a good tool to use if you want to:**
 * post student writing or other creative work, allowing for **peer and/or teacher editing and comments**
 * give students an online space for collaborating on group projects
 * post assignments and relevant materials for your students (syllabus, handouts, etc.)
 * facilitate an online exchange (between two classes, for example)

@Wiki in a K-12 Classroom - This page has 7 ideas for specific uses in the K-12 classroom. Teachers and students can use it for science projects, collaborative textbooks, student portfolios, literature circles, as well as a few more strategies.

__Grades K-2__

 * 2nd Grade Class Wiki — sharing their reading and writing with the world
 * 2nd/3rd Grade Class Wiki— class web site

__Grades 3-5__

 * 4th Grade Monster Project
 * 5th Grader Cyberchickens — student projects

__**Middle School**__

 * Adams News — news by students
 * ABCIT — a wiki for sharing student projects

__High School__
> 1. We now have a central site where students can find the presentations for both classes. We have a couple quizzes over the material and students can easily visit the wiki to review. My period 4 class is too small to cover 8 particle accelerators, so we looked at the wiki's from period 3 on the facilities that weren't covered in period 4. > 2. The wiki format makes it easy for students to collaborate from different locations. They can edit and check the work of their partners. > 3. The wiki program logs which students are making changes and what the changes are, so I can see how the workload of the project is being shared. I can also go and see previous versions of the pages to follow the progression of how their page was developed. This was a pretty simple, short term project. In a project that was more detailed and took longer, I could easily monitor the progress that students were making. > 4. There were several groups that put in links to materials on the web that were beyond the expectations for the project. Students with an interest could follow those links on their own time."
 * History Class Wiki
 * Social Studies Class Resources
 * Waltham High School - This wiki is an example of teacher created, for teacher use
 * Particle Accelerators — "The goal of the wiki is for students to become familiar with particle accelerators around the world. My per. 3 class had 9 groups, my per. 4 class had 4 groups, so there are 13 or 14 pages. I used to have students do powerpoint presentations for this, but found the wiki superior for several reasons.

__All Grades__

 * Westwood Schools — A great example of a whole school wiki
 * Examples of Educational Wikis — this is a list of wikis that have been created by teachers/students.

__**Research/Articles**__

 * Deerfield Public Schools — “Wikispaces was the best option, making it easy for a teacher to jump in, begin publishing, and have their students join. The back-end management of each wiki was easy to understand and the tutorials were user- friendly.”
 * @http://static.scribd.com/docs/ekqe0j8qtjmus.pdf - using Wiki's as a teaching tool.