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Wikis are a new technology in many classrooms around the world. As teachers it is our responsibility to help students learn to propuly utilize all that these technologies have to offer. Setting up a Wiki can be a bit confusing and utilizing in the classroom can be even more challenging. The links below are some great examples of wikis and provide ways to use them as a class.
What is a Wiki?
http://itechspec.wikispaces.com/Math
http://ccmjaeger.wikispaces.com/Curriculum+Resources
Example School site
http://kearnshigh.wikispaces.com/
http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com/Classroom+Wikis
iTechSpec
Curriculum Resources
Educational Wikis
The 21st century Classroom
http://theconnectedclassroom.wikispaces.com/Classroom
50 ways to use wiki in the classroom
http://www.smartteaching.org/blog/2008/08/50-ways-to-use-wikis-for-a-more-collaborative-and-interactive-classroom/

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Wiki ideas for social studies:
A mock-debate between candidates, in wiki form (composed entirely based on research students have done on the candidate positions).

Detailed and illustrated descriptions of scientific processes: how mountains form, etc.
A physics wiki for those wicked-long problems so the class can collaborate on how to solve them (a “wicked wiki”?).
The link below has an assortment of programs and activities to extend science lessons and enhance learning.
Learning Science

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Wiki ideas for science:
A student-made glossary of scientific terms with illustrations and definitions added by the class (using original digital photos or those from other online Creative Commons sources, such as Flickr). Linking to separate pages with detailed information would allow the main glossary list to remain reasonably short.

Social Studies can be a difficult subject to utilize technology. Below you will find a few links for online resources for social studies teachers.
Teaching History with Technology
Technology and Social Studies

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Wiki ideas for social studies:
A mock-debate between candidates, in wiki form (composed entirely based on research students have done on the candidate positions).
A document-the-veterans wiki for those in your community who served in the military. Interview them and photograph them, including both their accounts and your students’ documentation and personal reflections on the interviews.
A travel brochure wiki: use wikis to “advertise” for different literary, historical, or cultural locations and time periods: Dickens’ London, fourteenth century in Italy in Verona and Mantua ( Romeo and Juliet), The Oklahoma Territory, The Yukon during the Gold Rush, Ex-patriot Paris in the Twenties, etc.
Social Studies can be a difficult subject to utilize technology. Below you will find a few links for online resources for social studies teachers.
Teaching History with Technology