Listed below are some of the great uses of wikis & blogs in the classroom
Blogs
- Using a classroom blog as a parent newsletter
- Having each student be responsible for recording notes
- Administrative blog to create community within a school for faculty to hear different voices from other faculty - (e.g., a book club for literature professors, topic of the day for faculty)
- Current events - topic of the week - where each student has to write a comment of that event
- Thoughts of what was good and what was bad on field trips with the understanding
- Correct a bad lab report for science class
- Have a student book club
- Create a tech blog for department members to comment on various technology
- Having a team blog to upload videos and discuss particular plays
- Math-problem solving blog
- Convert a webquest into a blog with student records and assigning different roles
- Blog of games and new activities for the a physical education class
- Emulate the writing style of a writer
- Communicate with parents
- personal development
- edublogs.org
- Student self reflection
Wikis
- Creating a collaborative study guide for review
- Collaborative notes
- Discovering cultural differences
- A teaching tool
- students create their own wikipedia
- Literature response, poetry reading circles, analogies
- Anti-drug wiki for Life Skills class where students select a drug and conduct research
- Periodic table wiki where each student can select an element to create a multimedia analysis
- A glossary page for students to create definitions
- Create a newsletter for parents where students can dictate text and pictures within the wiki
- Present a problem in a math class that students would work on for homework - introduce the problem in class and reinforce their knowledge of the question with supplements contained in the wiki
- Students collaborate to work on script-writing
- Have clubs work on a project together
- Serve as a place for graduates to stay in touch
- Create a "where in the world game" for a geography class where each student has a page tp create a list of clues on each page; connect with a Google Earth tour
- Create self-help site for technology departments for troubleshooting hardware
- Election wiki for pages on each candidate
- Dividing students into groups at the beginning of the year and each group creates review information for unit and final exams
- Create wiki for the science teachers where students can download labs and teachers can edit
- Expand on particular units in a wiki
- Place for kids to write ideas on test preparation and studying habits -- place for teachers to post old tests, such as SATs
- Liturature circles
- Foreign language students edting each others grammer and vocab
- world religion project
- students responding in character
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