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=Designing Classroom Wikis=

**__What is a Wiki? __ **
 **A Wiki is a collaborative webpage whose contents can be edited by anyone who has access to it.** [|****Wikipedia****] **is probably the best known example of this. Typically, a webpage has one author. A Wiki allows you to have as many authors as you want. **   media type="youtube" key="-dnL00TdmLY&hl=en&fs=1" height="344" width="425"
 * Watch this video:**


 * __What can I do with a Wiki? __ **
 * **embed videos**

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 * **embed audio**
 * **add a table, spreadsheet, or calendar**


 * **Summer Reading** || **Books I've Read** ||
 * Maddie || Of Beetles and Angles; The Wicked, Wicked Ladies in the Haunted House ||
 * Molly || The Outsiders; Twilight ||
 * Charlie || The Bean Tree; Of Mice and Men ||
 * Emily || Twilight; Of Beetles and Angels ||
 * **create a survey (with [|SurveyGizmo)]**
 * **embed a slideshow** (Created with [|Flickr)]

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 * **embed maps** (Created with [|Google Maps]

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 * This is a satellite view of the Catskills Mountains, the setting of the book __My Side of the Mountain.__**
 * and other html (SketchPad, etc..)

**__How can I use this in my classroom?__ **

 * see examples above and the math and language arts pages on this wiki
 * Teacher and IT coordinator can collaborate to create a list of websites students should use to explore a specific topic.
 * Collaborative Text Books: let the students write their own textbook.
 * ePortfolios: You can upload pictures, attach files, and embed video
 * Collaboration between teachers: Create a lesson plan online and other could add to it
 * Collaboration between students: Instead of answering questions for a text book, they could use a pathfind and post answers, pictures and video.
 * A teacher webpage

** [|**http://primarymath.wetpaint.com/?t=anon**] [|**http://wiki.woodward.edu/hannalee/doku.php**]
 * Check out these wikipages that other educators have created.
 * Elementary:**

**http://codeblue.wikispaces.com/** **http://discoveryutopias.wikispaces.com/**
 * Middle School:**

[|**http://welkerswikinomics.wetpaint.com/?t=anon**] **http://flatclassroomproject.wikispaces.com/**
 * High School:**

__**How can I set up a Wiki?**  __ Now its time for your to set up your own wiki with a private company called, Wikispaces.com. The link below will provide very helpful step-by-step instructions.



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