wikis

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Articles

 * [|Make Way for Wikis]
 * [|Wiki Wisdom: Lessons for Educators]
 * [|English Teacher Shakes up Learning with Positive Results]
 * [|How Do I Use WIkis in the Classroom]
 * [|For Teachers New to Wikis]
 * [|Benefits of a Wiki]

**Samples of Instructional Wikis**
> A high school media specialist created this wiki for her students. > Course site for senior biology students. > Each participating class (grades preK - 6, from throughout the US and world) chose one or more of Dr. Seuss's books and created either a webpage, a wiki, a blog, a presentation, a bubble share, etc about their book. The project began in August of 2007 and concluded in December of 2007. > This project is open to Fourth Grade classrooms across the Commonwealth of Virginia. The goal is to help students learn about the state of Virginia from each other. > The **Flat Classroom Project** is a global, hands-on collaborative project for middle and senior high school students based on the concepts in the book by Thomas Friedman, __**The World is Flat**__. > High school sports medicine students create online fitness training programs and sports injury information for the public. > High school math students post their Geometry, Algebra I, and Algebra II unit summaries. > Middle school students work collaboratively to choose topics, complete projects, and publish their work. > Second and third grade students share what they are learning with the world. > First and second grade students collected 1000 names. > Fifth graders identify astronomy terms. > Sixth grade students create an online reference to help other students with their study skills > This wiki is the result of a middle school study of the novel, __Holes__.
 * 2008 Presidential Campaign
 * World of Biology
 * Salute to Seuss
 *  Regions of Virginia
 * Flat Classroom Project
 * Code Blue Grade 6 students in an international school in Malaysia learn about the human body in order to open their own "online medical clinic.
 * Kinesiology
 * LMMATH
 * Mr. Bruce's U.S. History
 * Ms Webster's Class Wiki
 * 1000 Names
 * Astronomy Alphabet
 * Study Skills
 * Holes wiki

Free Wikis for Educators:

 * [|PB Wiki For Education]
 * [|Wet Paint]
 * [|Wikispaces for Educators] - ** This is the one we recommend **

Directions:

**Wikispaces Tips**
When you sign up for an account, be sure to identify yourself as a K-12 educator by using the above link (Wikispaces for Teachers). This will make you eligible for a wiki __without__ advertisements. If you happen to sign up for your wiki on the regular wikispaces page, click on "Subscription" under "Manage Space" and request a complimentary upgrade to **Plus for K-12 education**.

There's an easy way to create accounts for students - even if they don't have email addresses! Email help@wikispaces.com with a list of usernames, email addresses (if you have them - **__if you don't just leave them out__**), and passwords in the following format and request to have the student accounts created.

code user1,email1@address.com,password1 user2,email2@address.com,password2 user3,email3@address.com,password3 code

A few important notes that will help wikispaces.com create student accounts for you quickly:

//Usernames// A large number of accounts already exist on wikispaces.com, so many combinations of first names, last names, and initials are already taken. It's much more likely that they can make all the accounts you request if you add a school identifier to the students' usernames. For example, if your school is called Alanton Elementary School, instead of requesting for the usernames, //adam//, //james//, and //dom//, we recommend //aes-adam//, //aes-james//, and //aes-dom//.

//Length of Usernames and Passwords// Please make sure that usernames are __at least__ 3 characters long (we allow letters, numbers, underscores _, or dashes -) and that passwords are __at least__ 6 characters long.

//Which Space?// Finally, make sure to let wikispaces.com know to which wikis you'd like the students added as members.

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