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"I use the Mrtelles site as a communication link with students and parents.
There is a section for daily homework, weekly spelling, and long term assignments (and fun things as well)."
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| Name | PBwiki Address | How have you used your Classroom Wiki? What was the result?
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| Chris Beaven | http://pachanga.pbwiki.com | We use pbwiki to plan a weekly sing-along / assembly at our school. A number of people contribute to the planning. The site is a great way to keep everybody informed and also to look back at what songs we have done through the year. The name of our Pre-School through 5th grade gathering is Pachanga. | chris_beaven@waynflete.org |
| Kori Atwood | www.mrsatwood.pbwiki.com |
I use pbwiki as a way to keep students and parents informed. Lecture notes/presentations and homework assignments for my classes are posted for the benifit of my students. Also, I have included project guidelines and exmples of student work. Students who are working on group projects are required to collaborate with other members of their group on the wiki. My favorite way to use wikis is to set up "discussion boards" for students to post their ideas about a topic we are discussing in class. It is a great way to give every student a voice.
Also - pbwikis are great for extracurricular activities. I have set one up for our Key Club at www.bgkeyclub.com. Students can view a calendar of events and sign up on the wiki for volunteer hours. At www.bgrap.pbwiki.com - a student reading club, students can post thier reviews of books they have been reading.
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katwood@bgcs.k12.oh.us |
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Nick Telles |
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"I use the Mrtelles site as a communication link with students and long term assignments (and fun things as well). PBWiki is easy to learn, quick to update, and always improving! Bravo!! |
nickandhaidi@gmail.com |
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Joan Vinall-Cox
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"I choose PBwiki because it was visually attractive.impressed with how much cleaner and more attractive it looked than another, easier, wiki I was using. Its appearance impressed me so much |
jvinall-cox@cogeco.ca |
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Susan Jennings |
"There was about 50-60 people (standing room only!) The response was very positive..." |
Jenningssl@appstate.edu |
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Jenn Gutierrez |
http://css8thgradeenglish.pbwiki.com |
I like to use the wiki to post static information and as a supplement to our classroom blog. I am especially please with the easy of introducing students to writers in the community. When we get to our Lord of the Flies unit, I create group assignments and each is responsible for editing their own page on the wiki. |
jgutierrez@css.org |
| E. Fedderke |
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I love pbwiki. I learned about it at a Summer workshop at our A site
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ayr_aca_ef@nwoca.org |
| Erick Lee |
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I have used my wiki's to do collaborative projects in my math classes. The first page is an online portfolio of the curriculum outcomes for our math 12 class. The second page is a photo project we're working on for our precalculus class. The class really seems to like doing something where they can be a little creative. |
eplee@staff.ednet.ns.ca |
| Andrew Hill | Here in the UK lots of staff development sessions in what we call Further Education Colleges are using a webtools site that I developed a year or so back. Rather than just having a 'catalogue' I used a pbwiki to provide a way for practitioners to comment on how they found a particular application and, hopefully, in time, provide examples of good practice. | ahill@dunstable.ac.uk | |
| Ann Smith |
These web sites show a progression of usuage. The CTIP(Curiiculum Technology Integrartion Project) wiki is used for a year long teacher training program. The Perkins Elementary wiki is for our school. The Perkins 3rd grade wiki is for our third grade teachers and their 1-1 laptop curriculum. The last web link is an individual teachers wiki. Make sure to check out the SideBar and Quickstart as we use them for more information. We love using the wikis. They are easy and fun! Teachers have great success using them.
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smitha1@mac.com | |
| Andrew Hill |
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Am I allowed two goes here?! Since 1998 I have been sharing notes and things on-line with staff and students but the simplicity of doing so with pbwiki has made the job so much more fun than it used to be, and people can feedback and add their own pages. What particularly impressed, well amazed me actually, was how I could copy and paste complete chunks of web pages straight in to pbwiki and, with a bit of tweaking, they were ready to go! There's now a studyzone2 which is about to be launched for distance learning tutors for canine and feline behaviour degree modules. Some of these individuals are well known tv personalities in the UK, with superb pet behaviour knowledge but little by way of IT skill! So pbwiki was my first choice for such a public challenge! OK, I'll shut up now. Just love the application and greatly appreciative of the free, no-ads, availability. | andrewx.com@gmail.com |
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Sherron Burns |
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Our site was started as a way to share information about Arts Ed projects in the division and as a place to highlight resources and PD. However, the best project for us was when I set up the wiki as an online collaboration between teachers and guest artists. They live long distances apart and would not be able to meet until the day of the activity and so the wiki allowed them to plan together and to build a relationship prior to the class visit. It also gave us a way to exhibit the work and journal the process. I'm using it as the basis for some Action Research in my graduate studies as well. People were hesitant about new technology, but were pleasantly surprised to find it so easy to edit. Once they understood the purpose they bought into using it and ejoyed it.
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sherron.burns@lskysd.ca |
| Sheri Edwards |
Kids love to work on wikis. I've finally started to figure it out:
Start Page: I have homepage set up on each computer in the classroom (http://msedwards.pbwiki.com/). That lists current lessons for each class with links to lessons and resources for parents and students -- students begin and end their computer period on this page. Students need written work ready to type before accessing the computer, so our class period of about 50 minutes is blocked into sessions (lesson from me, writing period, computer time) and students move through these time/activity blocks.
Samples: We have completed some work on our collaboration wiki: coyote talks. For Halloween, the students practiced compound sentences; final teams posted work at: http://coyotetalks.pbwiki.com/Compound+Scares
Teams: For the fifth grade, I set up team wikis for team collaboration. We're just getting this off the ground.
Safety: I don't use student names; just student numbers, and all students sign a contract before participating. Parents sign a release form at the beginning of the school year.
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ms_edwards@mac.com | |
| Angela Cunningham |
http://angelacunningham.pbwiki.com http://bcsocialstudies.pbwiki.com
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I teach high school freshmen, and we are using our wikis for a variety of purposes. The "cougarpride" wiki is for our team to share news and happenings with students and their families. From there, students can select the appropriate teacher. On mine, "angelacunningham", students can access assignments--including PowerPoints and worksheets--and add entries to our online encyclopedia--the "cougarpedia". The "bcsocialstudies" wiki allows my department to collaborate online. Wikis have genuinely changed how I teach. | angela.cunningham@bullitt.kyschools.us |
| Melinda Gregor |
http://english400atshhs.pbwiki.com
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I teach AP English Literature, college-prep 11th grade English, and college-prep 10th grade English. I LOVE PBWIKI!!!! This tool has everything you need to enhance the classroom discussion as well as extend that discussion beyond to students' homes. I love it for PBL. The link takes you to my juniors. On the home page, please scroll to the bottom to see the movemaking project they have recently completed. They are now using their pbwiki as we collaborate on color connotations in The Great Gatsby. I also use their home pages to communicate changes in HW, to answer questions, and to survey what they like/learn/etc. |
gregorm@sh.noacsc.org |
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Alona Senishch-Chmilewsky
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http://global-village.pbwiki.com
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My students (a group of 14 year olds) and I use pbwiki to run a cross-cultural project called 'Global Village'. For the last 5 months we have been collecting various data and facts about different countries around the globe. We see ourselves as virtual inhabitants of the 'Global Village' and aim to share our knowledge about the countries we have been exploring both internally (among us) and externally with interested parties. Simultaneously we hope to change our own attitude and stereotypical thinking. I have offered my students to encorporate other free web applications into the project , like Gliffy, Pageflakes and Slide and in my opinion it added a new value (+fun). I am proud to mention that our pbwiki project has been nominated for BMW Award in Intercultural Learning, and though we haven't taken the prize we are still happy to be noticed and children are very motivated to continue with their work. We are now establishing contacts with the shools from the countries we have been exploring and I hope that 'Global Village' will attract even more attention. DEAR PBWIKI TEAM, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR GIVING US SUCH AN OPPORTUNITY.
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| paul shircliff | http://buckeyeperiodictable.pbwiki.com/ | Last year I set up this wiki for my students to create their own wikis about an element from the periodic table. They had partners who were not in the same classroom, so they had difficulty learning how to communicate with each other on a what needed done (even though I suggested creating a "ToDo" page and "talking" to each other that way ; some did) |
pshircliff@buckeyeschools.org
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| Suzie Vesper | A set up this resource bank for Christmas in my capacity as an ICT advisor for nine schools. I also helped one of the teachers in our cluster to set up the webquest in the sceond link. | suzievesper@gmail.com | |
| Shelley Krause |
http://collegelists.pbwiki.com
(I also gave a tech talk on wikis at my school; my notes for that are archived here.) |
I use this site to help keep track of recommendations from college counselors all over the US; sometimes what a student is looking for (e.g. colleges with kosher kitchens or more flexible curricula) isn't always available via existing databases. Only a few other folks have helped contribute to date, but I'm happy to let editorial site engagement grow slowly as more people start to "grok" the power and possibilities of wikis. | Leave a comment on the wiki, or click on the "questions?" link on the front page. |
| Bill Ferriter |
I've started using PB Wikis as a primary tool for working with colleagues. The first wiki listed here is a collaborative project that the teachers of my language arts and social studies team are working on. We post daily current events that are connected to our curriculum and reading skills questions that can be used to monitor student understanding.
The second is a warehouse of materials that a colleague and I are putting together to raise awareness of professional learning communities and to share the materials that we create when working with our own learning teams.
Wikis are the perfect tool for this because they are asynchronous---we can work from anywhere at any time. That removes one of the biggest collaborative barriers in schools. |
wferriter [at] hotmail [dot] com | |
| Jeannie Krambeer | http://school-is-cool.pbwiki.com/ | I love using a wiki as an interactive site with students. It is so much easier than inputting information into our school web system and waiting for our tech people to find time to update with everything else they have to do. I am really looking forward to page level access. That will make my wiki even more of an asset to my students! | krambeer_jeannie@valley.k12.ia.us |
| Leigh Howell | http://mhshowellclasses.pbwiki.com/ |
We are using wikis to in each of my high school classes in different ways. In my IT class students document how to create a personal workstation utilizing open source software. In my leadership class we are working in as editorial teams to write our own textbook.
Knowing that the work they post may be read by the world, and not just me, their teacher, keeps my students engaged and motivated. |
howelll@menominee.k12.mi.us |
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