When I found out about wikispaces several years. I was not interested in them and did not see the value of them.
After becoming a Technology Facilitator I have begun to view Wiki's in a different light. There are numerous things that you can do with a Wiki account.
Here are some ways that you can use Wikispace with your students in class:
1. WebQuest: Have your class do a research project online for a specific topic that you are study. Have them search the web on predetermined websites to locate the answers to questions that you are looking for.
2. Glossary: Have your class to create a glossary of terms that are using and learning about in the various subjects in your class. Have them add definitions, images, and/or video.
3. Class Story: Write a story together as a class or have the student do it with a peer or in a small group.
4. Use it as an e-portfolio to display all of their work that they would like to showcase from PowerPoint presentations, to various documents which could be stories, math problems, test, and more. They can even upload videos that they have created and store them on the WIkispace in order to share them with others.
5.Create ‘micro-blogging’ pages where students have to discuss a specific topic that you have picked for them and their peers have to respond.
6. Student autobiography- have the students start out on the first page with an autobiography that they have to keep up to date. They need to let us know what all is going on in their lives. If some thing has changed. If they have had a birthday, etc.
Give them a criteria sheet to follow of specific information that you want covered in it. This covers a third grade NCSCOS objective.
7. Student Website- have the students create their own website with various links to things they feel are important. You may want to include Math, Science, Social Studies, Health, Eng. Language Arts, etc if you are wanting them to put student artifacts on the site to show work that they are doing in each subject or you just might want to be very simple if you are doing it for kindergarten or first graders. Things I like. What I want to do when I grow up... Make this an on growing project throughout the year.
8. Writing Portfolio- This could be a digital online writing portfolio of the students work. You could have a new tab for each writing piece that the student writes and have it made available for the parents to see. It could also be used in class for peer editing.
These are just a few ways to use a wikis in a classroom. Please visit my WebQuest Wikispace site for SHES. Click here to visit the WebQuest Wiki.
Please feel free to explore my WebQuest, link to them, edit them, or make comments on them.
I would love some feed back.
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