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Wiki Sites

1. http://www.pbworks.com/
This website is a site that allows people to create online team collaboration wikis
within agencies, law firms, general businesses, and education. This website has
webinars to help get you started on what a wiki is and how to use all its functions.
Sign up for a free basic wiki on pbworks to explore if a wiki could fit into your
classroom (I do recommend watching the education webinar first)!

2. http://www.commoncraft.com/video/wikis
The website commoncraft.com allows you to create effective explainer videos. The
link that I gave you above goes to a video created on this website about wikis. I
think this video is a great to introduce to your students what a wiki is and what it
allows you to do.

3. https://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eli7004.pdf
This link leads you to a PDF file. This PDF file is an article about the 7 things you
should know about wikis. This website is informative in what a wiki is, whos doing
it, how it works, why it is significant, the downsides, where its going, and the
implications for teaching and learning.

4. http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/10/where-the-word-
wiki-comes-from/
This is a great article about who developed wiki and how he came up with the name.
This is a very fun article to read with interesting facts. Learn what the real meaning
of wiki is!

5. http://www.techforteachers.net/wikis-in-the-classroom.html
This website gives you examples of school and classroom activities. By going
through these wikis you can get ideas on how to use a wiki in your classroom! This
website also shares good educational sites to create wikis from as well as the
process and obstacles in integrating a wiki in your classroom.

6. http://www.smartteaching.org/blog/2008/08/50-ways-to-use-wikis-for-a-
more-collaborative-and-interactive-classroom/
This is a website full of ideas on ways to use wikis in your classroom to create a
more collaborative and interactive environment. Wikis can be used for a resource
creation, student participation, group projects, student interaction, classroom as a
whole, the community, and etc..

7. https://www.wikispaces.com
This website talks about how wikis can be used in the classroom. It talks a lot about
using wikispaces in the classroom and how you use it. Also, the website talks about
classroom management when using wiki and wikispaces.




8. http://www.teachersfirst.com/content/wiki/wikiideas1.cfm
This website tells you about everything you want to know when integrating wikis
into your classroom. It tells you how to use wikis in all subjects, with younger
students, with teachers, why to use one, connections it may provide, how to choose
which wiki tool to use, basic decisions you may need to make, parental concerns,
wiki issues, etc.

9. http://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/wikis/
This website provides information about what to think about when deciding if you
should use a wiki in your classroom or not. It also shares with you what the research
is saying about using wikis in the classroom.

10. http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com/Classroom+Wikis
11. http://teaching-with-technology.wikispaces.com/Wikis+in+Education
These two websites share many examples of wikis being used in the classroom. It
gives you a visual of exactly how you can integrate a wiki into your classroom in
different subjects.