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=Waltham High School The Waltham High School Wiki was specifically designed as a collborative wiki about wikis for WHS teachers. The WHS Wiki contains information on what a wikis is, how you can create your own wiki, and how wikis can be used with students in the classroom.= =[|Hunter College]= =The Hunter College page is designed for student communication, including student wikes and syllabus.= =Decatur High School Library= =Decatur HS Library wiki is designed for students to access various references, like you would in a regular library, including an article search and pathfinders.= = = =[|Plymouth Regional Library]= =Similar to the Decatur wiki, Plymouth offers formatting help as well as direct links to specific classes who are utilizing the library at that time. __Educational Uses of Wikis__= ==Introduction: The purpose of this Wiki is to have a reference to interesting and useful sites that describe work being done using wikis in online education or as an online adjunct to class work in educational settings including K-8, High School, and College. This wiki will show examples of projects and the benefits and drawbacks of each site.==

.__**All Grade Levels**__
 * 1) Wikispaces . This wiki shares examples of Wikis for all grade levels.
 * 2) [|PBWiki] is a great video source of information on how to use your Wiki in all areas of education, business and personal life.

**Elementary School Wiki Projects**
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 * 1) [|Simple English Wikipedia] allows elementary age students to write compositions in many subject areas for students to edit and revise.
 * 2) Literature study using the Hobbit as its theme.
 * 3) Middle School Science and Math related lessons with lots of //**FUN**// activity

High School Wiki Projects

 * 1) [|Flat Classroom Projects] allow students from around the world to study, share and collaborate their information with each other.
 * 2) This [|AP Economics] site is a prime example of the collaborative nature of Wikis that crosses national borders and allows for insights other than our own.

1. __Deakin University__ Deakin University in Victoria, Australia has found a novel way to supplement their online course offerings. After finding that 50% of their students found their first online course experience unsatisfactory - primarily because many in the class posted late comments and only to fulfil the requirment and there was little interaction among the students - the University decided to modify a synchronous classroom icebreakers by having students do it on a wiki as a precursor to their online class. To see the article go to [|Deakin University]

2. __Using Social Software to Create Interactive and Collaborative Online and Hybrid Courses__
This is a powerpoint presentation with audio - a little hard to know when to advance the slides and a lot of information on other web 2.0 tools and how they can be adapted for online courses but the wiki section is worth a look.

3. __Connectivism - a Real Online Class and you can take it!__
[|Connectivism - an online course]

4. __A Wiki That Covers a Lot of Ground Including Online Courses Using Wikis__ [|Comprehensive wiki on online education]

Looking for a rubric for using a wiki in your online class? Here's a good one from the University of Alaska at Anchorage
[|UAA Wiki Rubric]

=Projects We Might Develop Using a Wiki=