EdExamples

Examples of Wikis in Education
This page offers examples of how some educators are using Wikis in Education...

School-wide Wikis
[|Summer Reading TMS] : An online discussion of Thomas Middle School's summer reading novel, led by students and staff.

Social Science Projects
Country Club 2007 : Year 7 students from Australia have created an atlas online.

Maori Culture : Year 6 students from the same Australian school studied the aboriginal people of their country.

Mr. Monson's Grade 5 Classroom Thousands Project : This classroom posed a question a month in hopes of accumulating at least a thousand answers to each question.

Storytelling
What will happen to Sylvia? : Students have written a "choose-your-own-path" story.

Terry the Tennis Ball : Another "choose-your-own-path" story.

[|Wikijunior from Wikibooks] : This wiki's goal is to produce age-appropriate non-fiction books for children from birth to age 12 written by a community of writers, teachers and students.

Book Reports
The Wright 3 : The students used a wiki to summarize the book 'The Wright 3' and to write about the characters and research things found in the story.

Holes by Louis Sachar

Science Projects
EARTH Klimate Analysis Mission : Students investigate the relationship between deforestation and climate change using images from EarthKAM and NASA.

Awesome Animals : Students in this classroom researched and wrote about animals.

CodeBlue : Sixth grade students created a "virtual" clinic by doing research on body systems and the medical profession.

The Impact of Climate Change : This class divided into groups to research global warming.

Classroom Wikis
Mrs. Koopman's Classroom

Mrs. Topnce's Classroom

[|Mrs. Dvoratchek's Classroom]

Teacher Resources
Wikispaces Help for Teachers : This is the educator section of Wikispaces. All your questions can be answered here!

[|Classroom 2.0] : This wiki is a collaborative space for educators that you can join to contribute to discussions about Web 2.0 technologies and how they can be used in the classroom.

EduWiki.us : Another space for educators to share resources and best practices.

Web 2.0 Tutorials