Wikis

**Wikis in Education**
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This is a wiki educational community that shares ideas about using wikis in the classroom. Classroom teachers share ideas about classroom wikis, student created wikis, higher-ed wikis, group project wikis, global connections wikis, PTO wikis and teacher peer wikis.

I think this website can be used to create a class wiki for use between the school librarian, teacher and students. For example, when a teacher is starting a research topic, he/she can make a class wiki to post correspondence between the class and the librarian. The students can correspond with the librarian about questions they have about their research topic. The librarian can post responses and links to resources available on the web.

Juanita Duran

**Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki ** []

This is a wiki developed for librarians to share and read success stories in the library. It was created as a social network for librarians to share the best practices in the library. There are a variety of topics from selecting materials from the library, reader’s advisory, promoting your library, services to groups, training, technology in the library, and many others.

I think this can be used by a librarian to get specific ideas on the interests they have for their library. For example, I have a real interest in promoting the library that I will be working a. I want the community can be involved in our school library. So this wiki provides tips and ideas on developing successful blogs, newsletters, and newspaper articles.

Another example is learning about mobile access to your library. This can benefit students, parents, community, and even teachers. One of the mobile accesses I learned about from this wiki is Overdrive. Overdrive is an online distributor of ebooks, audiobooks, and other digital media. As I researched, my school library is already an online digital library. Anyone in the community can check out an available digital media source. I was pretty amazed.

This is just a couple of the entries in this wiki. There are many more.

Marie Arce

=**Cyberlit21**=

[|http://cyberlit21.pbworks.com/w/page/12987992/FrontPage]

Cyberlit21 is wiki created as a school library resource page for teachers in the Rockhill School District in South Carolina. This site contains information about digital citizenship, media literacy, cyberethics, personal "web" safety. It breaks down resources by topic and grade level, with divisions of K-5, 6-8 and 9-12. This allows teachers or school media specialists to quickly and easily access age appropriate information covering various topics about student interaction with the internet.

I could use this website as a springboard for creating my own school library wiki webpage that will benefit teachers at my school. It would need to be tweaked to be relevant to Texas teachers and to address the specific age level at our elementary school, so I would replace the "SC Internet Safety Standards" with Technology TEKS from the TEA (Texas Education Agency)([] and tailor it towards information appropriate for ages K-5.

As for the other resources offered on this wiki which are broad and useful enough to be used in my library, I could either get permission to link to the pages cyberlit21 links to, or simply use the main page set up to inspire my own resource page for teachers with resources I research and vet. I would like to give teachers in grades K-5 solid information on these very topics with age appropriate teaching tools which they can use in their own classrooms. I would especially like there to be links, like cyberlit21 has, where a teacher could click the link and bring up information for students to view on the teacher's classroom computer via the data projector.

Christine Lynd

=**Wiki**= =http://maybellethecockroach.wikispaces.com =

This is a fantastic example of a wiki used by a librarian and a teacher in a book study for 2nd graders. It incorporates many different technologies such as Gloster, Wordle, and Animoto. This one book study also has a book trailer, Teacher and Student Project Evaluations, and so much more. The project has students very involved in the book and in the creative hands-on opportunities with technology resources. Students are excited about sharing their learning experience with students in other schools and do that through this wiki. This project started with 2nd graders in one school and spread across the nation to over 1,500 students.

I would definitely like to have a similar wiki for a book study. The ideas shared on this project can be transferred to another book study. I would select a book about another insect and also have students take home a plastic insect of this type. They would have it with them as they read a chapter of the book and include the insect in their everyday lives. I would also have them write in their journals about the story and take pictures of the insect outside of the school environment, such as was done with this project. It would be great to create a project of this magnitude and watch the students react when they read responses from students in other schools.

Norma Franco = = =10 Best Practices for using wikis in education= []/

This website, written by Barbara Schroeder, a professor of Education Technology at Boise State University, is called Technology Teacher. The article gives exactly what the title indicates, a list of very practical suggestions for how to effectively implement wikis in educational settings. It discusses the importance of teaching the students not only the technology involved in using a wiki, but the rules and expectations of any collaborative project. It would definitely be beneficial to a teacher or librarian to read this article before implementing any assignment involving a wiki.

I would like to work with our district science coach and the fifth grade science teacher at our school to develop a wiki showing the students resources which they can use to complete assignments. This article would be very helpful to use when beginning instruction with the students. I especially liked the ideas of creating a culture of trust and the link to another post on Wiki Etiquette.

I also discovered that this is much more that a single article about using wikis. It contains links to sign up for a subscription to a Technology Teacher blog as well as a myriad of other technology articles (Let's Play! Um...Learn! was one I read about using gaming devices in educational settings).

Janet Wolber

Using Wikis for Collaborative Writing – article: //Make Way for Wikis//

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This article focuses on one librarian that used a wiki for collaborative writing among third-graders. Along with other projects, they wrote stories for the school newspaper. The article also gives overall information about wikis and briefly lists other ways to use them in education.

As librarian and media specialist I would like to work with teachers to arrange wiki use for their writers. My first goal would be to educate the teachers in the use of wikis. A workshop style presentation would be the most beneficial; they could learn about the technology, practice using it, and discuss ways to incorporate writing projects with their students. Then we would decide together how they wanted their students and wiki pages organized. I would continue to support their efforts throughout the year.

Lori McLaughlin =

**Live Binders 4 Teachers** http://livebinders4teachers.pbworks.com/w/page/574743/FrontPage

A wiki created through the website, www.livebinders.com, to allow educators to share resources. The wiki is categorized by grade level, topics and general information. Just like a three-ring binder one might hand off for a colleague to borrow, livebinders.com has it all via the internet. Create your own binder of resources and share it through Livebinders4teachers. This particular wiki is set up with multiple binders and available to help all educators.

As a librarian I would introduce the site to teachers to give them another avenue of resources. I would create a binder for my school, in particular for teachers, in which to add resources. I would create a binder for students to respond to the books they have read and make recommendations. With training and coaching, teachers and students will be able to add to the binders as appropriate.

Kelly Born