Teaching Tips: Wikis in the Classroom
These sites focus on using Wikis in classroom. There are resources for teachers about Wikis, free websites to sign up for free Wiki spaces, Wiki tutorials, classroom ideas, and examples of actual Wikis in classrooms. There are links to eThemes Resources on Wikipedia in Student Research and Teaching Tips: Using Online Journals and Blogs.
Grades
- 2,
- 3,
- 4,
- 5,
- 6,
- 7,
- 8,
- 9,
- 10,
- 11,
- 12
Links
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PBS: CyberOne: A Glimpse of the Future Classroom?
Read this article about the importance of interactive tools like such as Wikis and their roles in today classrooms. NOTE: This site includes ads.
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Wikispaces Tour
Here is an interactive tour that introduces you to the functions of Wikispaces and demonstrates how to create your own wiki. Choose a topic from "Choose a Tour" from the top of a page to see the demonstration.
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PowerPoint on Wikis in the Classroom Teaching in Wikiland
This downloadable PowerPoint provides an overview of Wiki and usage in the classroom.
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Free Wikispaces for Teachers
Here is free Wikispaces, no advertising to distract students, for teachers to sign up. Check out links in "Where can I learn more about how to use a wiki in education?" for resources on Wiki walk through and educational Wiki guide and resources.
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Wet Paint: Wikis in Education
This is another free wiki site. Includes some examples of how others use it in their classrooms. To set up an account, click on the "Sign up" button.
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A Collaboration of Sites and Sounds: Using Wikis to Catalog Protest Songs
This lesson plan provides ideas of how to incorporate Wikis with music.
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Flat Classroom Project
This is a collaborative project among students from different schools on Thomas Friedman's book, The World is Flat. Includes teacher's blogs, resources, and student's product. NOTE: This site includes ads.
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High School Online Collaborative Writing
This site provides examples of how Wikis are used for online collaborative writing. Click links under "Some of the things we write about" to see student work using Wikis. NOTE: This site includes ads.
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Tim Fredrick's ELA Teaching Wiki
Click on various topics to see how he uses Wiki in his classroom. The topics include portfolio creation, using graphic organizers, writing, reading, and more.
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SuccessLinl: Wiki Wisdom: To Use or Not to Use Wikipedia in Research
Introduce students to activities in this lesson plan to help them better understand the degree to which Wikipedia can be deemed a reliable information source.
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eThemes Resource: Wikipedia in Student Research
These websites are about information literacy, with particular emphasis on Wikipedia and its role in student research. There are interactive tutorials, articles, and ideas for class activities.
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eThemes Resource: Teaching Tips: Using Online Journals and Blogs
These websites are about using weblogs in the classroom. There are websites where teachers and students can sign up for their own blogs for free. There are also several articles that explain how teachers are using blogs in the classroom. Teachers should be especially cautious about giving out these links as students can access other blogs.
