Wikis In EducationBy: Maureen Selleroli

Media Specialist

Wiki Project Ideas

Classroom weekly newsletter:

Teachers can use a wiki to keep students and parents up to date on what is going on in the classroom.

The weekly newsletter can be edited and modified by either teacher or student.

Wiki Project Ideas

Study guides for any subject:

Teachers and/or students can edit and modify content for study guides for a particular unit or lesson of study.

Wiki Project Ideas

Group projects that can be set to private:

Students can create collaborative projects without needing each others private log in password or username.

Wiki Project Ideas

Booktalks or book reviews:

Teachers and students can write book reviews or book talk about a certain title to generate reading interests.

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Battle of the Book questions:

students can write comprehensive questions that others can use to review, refresh, and study for the Battle of the Books.

Wiki Project Ideas

Technology instruction step by step page:

a webpage can be created to instruct users on how to use technological software and hardware.

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Collaborative classroom story:

Teachers can post a writing prompt that students can then add to create a classroom story.

More Ideas

Project wiki - Students can use a wiki to develop research projects, with the wiki acting as ongoing documentation of their work.

Wikis can be used to map concepts: they are useful for brainstorming,

Tutor can publish course resources like syllabus and handouts, and students can edit and comment on these directly

Knowledge repository - Wikis can be used for students to add summaries of their thoughts from the prescribed readings, building a collaborative annotated bibliography.

Presentation tool – Students can use the wiki to present their results, use it as evidence for personal development planning

Course evaluation tool - Wikis are being used for course evaluation

Wikis are tools for group authoring

module wiki - where you will be working with all students on the module.

group wiki - where you will be working in separate groups and will only be able to see the wiki activity associated with the group you have been assigned to.

personal wiki - where you will be working on your own and only ALs and staff will only be able to see your wiki contributions.