real-examples-of-wikis

//**This page shows links to existing wikis that are being used in schools and other educational contexts.**// Wikis are an incredibly flexible tool. Think about how you might use them.
 * create in online text for your classroom
 * try creating a choose your own adventure
 * have your students use a wiki to publish information about a topic that they are investigating
 * create an online presence for your school
 * create digital portfolios for students and teachers
 * create collaboration opportunities between classes across the school and across the world

Wikis @ Wedderburn
Our WedderburnP12 Wiki acts as a portal to our class wikis and student wikis.
 * //Wedderburn College://** we have a number of wikis that are used as online subject organisational tools.

//**Years 11 & 12 ICT 2007**// were this year used as a repository for class files. Students each had their own page. This was where they uploaded work to be submitted for assessment as well as downloading work given out by their teacher. The Year 12 class was taught via videoconferencing and the wiki allowed students in the remote school to access files in real time during each lesson.

//** Year 7 ICT & Year 8 ICT**//- in these wikis teachers used pages as a type of lesson plan that was shared with students each week. This proved to be a very effective way to keep track of lesson progress as well as an after hours resource for students in each class. The wiki also provided links for students in classroom activities.

We are also trialling the use of wikis as a **personal digital portfolio** for students in Years 7 & 8. This link gives an example of the way we have chosen to structure the portfolio for this year - 2007. What is a digital portfolio?


 * [| Being Green-]** this is a project that Year 8 students in our school, Wedderburn College and students in Andale, Kansas have been participating in over the past few months.

One of the main goals of the project is to 'flatten' or lower the classroom walls so that instead of each class working in isolation, 2 or more classes are joined virtually to become one large classroom. The Horizon Project- another project created
 * Other great wikis:**
 * The Flat Classroom Project**-co created by [|Vicki Davis] (Westwood schools, USA) and [|Julie Lindsay] (Qatar Academy, Qatar) uses Web 2.0 tools to facilitate communication, interaction and collaboration between students and teachers from all participating classrooms. The topics studied and discussed are real-world scenarios based on 'The World is Flat' by Thomas Friedman.

[|Chemistry with Mr Olson] -students represent themselves as a chemical element and use a page in the wiki to describe themselves.

4Schools1Planet- an cluster wide wiki created by teachers and students in the Williamstown Environmental Cluster in Melbourne, Victoria.

Waterways wiki: this is a group of students Moturoa Classroom from Appleby School who have created a wiki on waterways.

[|Primary Maths Wiki]- this is an example of young students and their teachers collaborating and sharing their understandings about maths in the real world.