Wiki+Review

Standard Addressed After looking at all of the different wikis I found a few that I really liked. I think that I could try and create similar pages for various different subject areas. The wiki I enjoyed the most was Bookleads ( http://bookleads.wikispaces.com/). I think this a fabulous way to interest children in reading. I thought the way that they linked to various different pages that had do with various areas of reading. I thought the links to the podcast were great. I also enjoyed how they linked to author pages and recommended books to read if you are interested in certain types of books. I thought that maybe this would be a great to create a wiki like this for our library. I think that it would be great if we could have the children create the podcasts or do book reviews for their classmates to use when choosing a book. It would be like a glorified book report. In my option students seem to enjoy reading what their classmates are reading, so they would be the perfect people to do the reviews.
 * 1) **Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity (a,b,c,d)**

I also really enjoyed The Webster Class Wiki ( http://mswebster.wikispaces.com/). I liked how this wiki was so interactive. There are examples of children’s work, there are podcasts created by the children and their teacher, and all of the review and questioning material. I would use this to help organize the material needed for the children in each of their classes. I also think this really helps to keep the parents involved in the learning projects. I really believe that this wiki really helps the children learn because they are so invested in the entire process. I was thinking about using this to post study guides and important information the students need. This could also be used to post homework, so that parents are aware of the work their children are to be doing.

I really enjoyed all of the different wikis we looked at, but the two I chose to write about really stood out, they provided me with a variety of different ideas for using wikis in my classroom. Below are the links to the other wikis we were to review with a brief description of each. This will be a resource for me to use at a later date, by providing me with ideas for my own classroom. A Broken World ~ https://brokenworld.wikispaces.com/A+Broken+World Summary – An online textbook created by students to describe from World War 1 to the Cold War. A Thousand Flat World Tales ~ http://burell9english.wikispaces.com/

Summary – A student writing page that connects students from grades K-12 with students from all over the world.

Code Blue ~ http://codeblue.wikispaces.com/

Summary - This seems to be a student centered page on Health. I think that the students are acting as the doctors and using their knowledge to figure out what is wrong with the patient.

Dorman's Daily Digest ~ http://dorman-data-digest.wikispaces.com/>.

Summary – This is a place for students to visit to find review materials and assignments from their Social Studies teacher.

Teen Talk ~ http://teentalk.wikispaces.com/ Summary – Students are learning how to use different forms of technology software in order to create a logo with the help of students from different countries (Malaysia).