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What's a Wiki?

Do we want to introduce eanes.wikispaces.net? 

It's a web page that can be edited by more than one person, even at the same time.

The wiki site that EISD uses for student use is:

http://pbwiki.com

Good Wiki Descriptions:

• Wiki basics from TeachersFirst.com http://www.teachersfirst.com/content/wiki/    

• YouTube Video: Wikis in Plain English:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY&mode=related&search

Samples of Wikis being used in classrooms

• Janice Friesen's site about wikis: http://jfriesen.net/profdev/literacies.html

•  Valley View's Bluebonnet Wiki  http://vvbluebonnets.pbwiki.com/   A good example of the students interacting about last year's Bluebonnet Books. The Ghost Fever link has a lot of discussion (It won last year's Bluebonnet Award)

•  A wiki about Holes by Loui Sachar by 6th graders:  http://stanleyyelnats.wikispaces.com/

• Room 9 wiki  http://room9nelsoncentral.blogspot.com/   scroll down and on the right side of the page is a link to wikis.

• Student work   http://westwood.wikispaces.com/Westwood+wikilinks+page