Wikispaces

Welcome to Quakertown's wikispace, this is the site the district will support for the use of wikis in the classroom. Do you know what wiki means? A wiki (sometimes spelled "Wiki") is a server program that allows users to collaborate in forming the content of a Web site. With a wiki, any user can edit the site content, including other users' contributions, using a regular Web browser. Basically, a wiki Web site operates on a principle of collaborative trust. The term comes from the word "wikiwiki," which means "fast" in the Hawaiian language. A wiki allows a visitor to the "wikified" Web site to edit the content of the site from their own computer. Visitors can also create new content and change the organization of existing content. The simplest wiki programs allow editing of text and hyperlinks only. More advanced wikis make it possible to add or change images, tables, and certain interactive components such as games

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Wondering how you would use a wiki in your classroom or why? I have linked to the classroom wikipage in wikispaces which addresses question and has a link to educational wikis for you to look at and possibly get some ideas. http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers sign up for your free wiki at wikispaces for your classroom [|Wild About Wikis] http://team8blue.wikispaces.com

http://villagewiki.pbwiki.com/FrontPage http://connectingandcollaborating.pbwiki.com/Wikis%20in%20the%20Elementary%20Classroom http://waytowiki.pbwiki.com/Must%20see%20wikis http://salutetoseuss.wikispaces.com/ Jennifer Wagner http://mrsmaine.wikispaces.com/
 * Elementary School examples**

http://teacherlibrarianwiki.pbwiki.com/Booklists+for+middle+school+students http://civil-rights.wikispaces.com/ Frank H. Harrison Middle School Civil Rights wiki http://spfractions.wikispaces.com/ Sargent Park School eighth grade students explain math http://stm-8th-grade-wiki.wikispaces.com/ St. Thomas Moore school eighth grade students create civil war poetry http://dedworthmaths.pbwiki.com/ Dedwood Middle School math wiki http://sfxmiddle.wikispaces.com/ St. Francis Xavier School 7th and 8th grade wikis http://pams50states.wikispaces.com/
 * Middle School examples**

http://iatoday.pbwiki.com/ http://brokenworld.wikispaces.com/A+Broken+World http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/COSTP_World_History_Project History & Language Arts (California is liiking for help writing a textbook. Could your student contribute?) http://www.hchs.hunter.cuny.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page Hunter College High School wiki http://shschem.pbwiki.com/ Salisbury High School chemistry http://flatclassroomproject.wikispaces.com/ The flat classroom project was conducted by Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay, their classes in Georgia and Bangladesh collaborated on the book The World is Flat, by Thomas Friedman. One student from each class were paired together and had to discuss topics from the book. [|High School Collaborative Writing Project] New York City High Schools used this site for writing projects http://lovelornphyla.wikispaces.com http://introducedspecieswhsapbio.wikispaces.com/ http://regionsdefrance.wikispaces.com/ http://trueandmemorable.wikispaces.com/ http://mystreetninthhonors.wikispaces.com/
 * High School examples**

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