Explore+Wikis

1) What do you consider to be the wiki's strengths? Would you do anything differently?
====2) Is viewing or interacting with this wiki or creating a similar wiki a useful educational activity for your students?====

A list of PBWorks wikis created by educators can be found at []
Below is an annotated list of wikis created by Kara Gleason. Her wiki about wikies can be found at - http://workingwithwikispaces.wikispaces.com/SampleWikisontheWeb

**A Broken World**
====Students in a 9th grade history class are writing their own history textbook covering World War I to the Cold War. The teacher has provided detailed instructions and the student's entries are very comprehensive containing images, video, slideshows, text, and primary sources.====

**ctap4poetry**
====This is a collaborative wiki for upper middle and high school students on the study of race and poetry. The teacher guides the students through online collaboration. Numerous technologies including blogs, google docs, video, and podcasts are integrated on this site.====

**Turn Homeward, Hannalee, Woodward Academy Fifth Grade Wiki**
====This is a collaborative wiki created by students in a 5th grade class. The site is based on the historical novel //Turn Homeward, Hannalee// by Patricia Beatty about a young Georgian girl sent to work in a Yankee textile mill in the final years of the Civil War. The wiki provides extensive context for the book including reader's theatre, an idiom guide, chapter summaries, and historical context.====

**Triangular Trade Gallery**
====Part of an High School Online Collaborative Wiki, the Triangular Trade Gallery is one of many wikis edited, created, and revised by high school students. This particular wiki contains a number of primary source images with student analysis and descriptions. []====

**Study Skills Wiki**
====This wiki provides study skills and tips for middle school students. Edited, created, and revised by students, this site addresses study skills and topics from test anxiety to reading comprehension and learning styles.====

**Digital Law**
====High school students have created a wiki on "what it means to be a digital citizen in the 21st Century." This site is very comprehensive and contains a variety of technologies including videos and slideshows.====

**Saugus Iron Works Project Based Wiki**
====The Saugus Iron Works Great Adventure is an interdisciplinary unit that includes interactive social studies, science, and technology lessons aligned to Massachusetts curriculum standards for the fourth and fifth grades. The lessons are focused on the oldest iron works in the United States, located in Saugus, Massachusetts, approximately nine miles north of Boston. The lessons within this unit may be used in conjunction with a visit to the Iron Works, but an actual visit is not necessary.====

**History Happening...Shanghai American School Asian History Wiki**
====This is a teacher and 9th grade student developed wiki on Chinese, Japanese, and Indian history. The site is extensive and contains a variety of primary source images, links, and information.====

**Mr. Armstrong's U.S. History Wiki**
====This site for an 8th grade U.S. history class links teacher created instructions and class information with student created sites.====

**Book Leads Wiki**
====The Book Leads wiki was created by a middle school library media specialist. It contains reading suggestions, author interviews, book reviews, book blogs, and discussion guides.====

**Collaboration Nation**
===="The Greatest Middle School Wiki in the World." This collaborative wiki created for an 8th grade class is very broad in scope. The sidebar links range from current classroom topics, student projects, how-to sites, and podcasts.====

**Mrs. Abernethy's Class Wiki**
====This 4th grade class wiki is very extensive. Student created and edited information ranges from the Revolutionary War, the U.S. Constitution, book talks, podcasts, and writing prompts.====

**Temperance Then and Now**
====Similar to a webquest, this high school U.S. history teacher created site guides students through a variety of primary and secondary source information on the temperance movement. A final assessment guides students to consider the effectiveness of the tactics of the temperance movement and to assess the effectiveness of tactics to combat drinking today.====

**World War I Visualization Poetry Project**
====This World War I poetry wiki for a high school class involves teacher instructions, and student created poetry and image posts. It's an example of a short-term project that links the core curriculum and technology.====

**The Great Debate of 2008**
====The "Great Debate of 2008" is a collaborative project that provides students in grades 8-12 with an opportunity to lead an exploration and discussion of issues and candidates surrounding the 2008 presidential election.====

**Salute to Seuss**
====During the month of August through December 2007, students from all around the world used various technologies and Internet tools to showcase one of our favorite authors, "Dr. Seuss!" They used the wiki linked below and various other technologies and internet toolds to share and gather==== http://salutetoseuss.wikispaces.com/

==== ** Sixth Grade Extra Help ** This wiki was created to provide "remedial" work to students in an English as a Foreign language class. It contains different exercises based on units covered in class. ====

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** Ah Bon French ** ==== A site for French beginners for Middle School teachers to use in the classroom and for students to use at home for extra practice. There are notes, flashcards, videos, and several online exercises, stressing differentiated instruction. There is also a link to another site which provides the equivalent of 8th grade French and 1st semester French I, in high school. ====

**19th Century Wiki **
==== Student generated content about the Amistad incident and the Industrial Revolution. This was an introductory project for students and teachers. ====

** British Romanticism **
==== Researched & created by students in an Honors Major British Writers course, May 2007. Provides a humanities-based overview of the British Romantic era (ca. 1789-1824). ==== ====http://britishromanticism.wikispaces.com/#toc3 ====

 **The Caves of Mull** A wiki based 'choose your own adventure' game created by students in Scotland as part of their Writing course.  https://thecavesofmull.wikispaces.com/The+Caves+of+Mull

** Digital Literacy at Millis High School **  A Web 2.0 wiki written by students for students. The wiki is designed to teach students, and teachers, about Web 2.0 and how to apply the technologies for learning. Before applications are discussed, there is an extensive section on how to use the Web responsibly and ethically. Each application is defined and, in some cases, multimedia reources used to explain the what and how principles underlying the technology. It is a living, breathing document and we are always accepting input on how to improve the work to better help educate the value of Web 2.0 in secondary education. http://milliswiki.wikispaces.com/

** Falcon Films ** A wiki site for the publication of student work from Clearfield (Utah) High's Multimedia and Video Production classes. Contains videos uploaded from TeacherTube, as well as Flash animations and games created by students. http://falconfilms.wikispaces.com/

**Math 12 Outcomes Portfolio**
==== The objective of this project is to collaboratively create an electronic portfolio that clearly and concisely explains course curriculum outcomes and connects each outcome with a plain-language description, notes and sample problems. By using a wiki, students can work together to develop these explanations and then share them with each other. ====

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==== ** Foundations of Integrated Science ** This wiki is a place where students can find information on class schedules and assignments, showcase your work, or collaborate with others. ====

**Mr. Lamb’s Math Wiki**
==== Here, you will find links to notes for each section, listed by chapter. You will also see the class calendar, where you can access homework assignments and see what's coming up. ====

http://msharboursclass.wikispaces.com/
**Greetings from the World** Winner of edublog award for best educational wiki 2009. http://greetingsfromtheworld.wikispaces.com/

**Soar to New Heights** Fourth grade Social Studies classroom wiki. First runner up winner of edublog award for best educational wiki 2009. http://soar2newheights.wikispaces.com/