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=What are Wikis?= A wiki is a website where anyone can edit anything anytime they want. The word //wiki// is actually Hawaiian for "quick". =How can Wikis be used in the education?=
 * 1) [|Wiki Wiki Teaching] - great advice from the //Cool Cat Teacher Blog//
 * 2) [|Team Projects] - podcast describes the skills students can learn by using wikis
 * 3) [|Story Starters] - a list of the types of stories that can be used with wikis
 * 4) Professional Collaboration - committees, meetings, department resources, etc.
 * 5) Collaborative Notebooks - ask the students to create one online notebook for the class to share

=Educational Wikis to explore= http://flatplanet.wikispaces.com/About - Two schools collaborating on one project. Fantastic example of the power of Wikis! http://sanguine8.livejournal.com/5785.html - how to wiki and podcast the Arabian Nights. This high school teacher is from Korea and is looking for another class to collaborate with. Sounds fun!

http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com/Examples+of+educational+wikis - examples of educational wikis

http://whyreadhuck.wikispaces.com/P4+ACatalan - you can see how a teacher has assigned a complete unit of practice and how the students are responding

http://trcs.wikispaces.com/ - this is wiki from a school in New York, I love the page about homework

http://burell9history.wikispaces.com/ - this history teacher has some very creative assignments

http://www.placeopedia.com/ - connects Wikipedia articles with places, a database to browse. There is a lot of potential here, this site is fairly new. I personally added Surprise, AZ to the map! Surprise! =)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page - I can't leave out the "Big Daddy of Wikis". Make sure you scroll down the page and check out Wikipedia's Sister Projects!

http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome - Curriki is an online environment created to support the development and free distribution of world-class educational materials to anyone who needs them.

=Participate in a Wiki= http://favouritesgraph.wikispaces.com/ - Add your favorite food to the class list, be sure to include where you are from.

=Alright Already, Show Me How to Get Started!= [|Tutorials] -Turn up the sound, these tutorials will show you how to use wikispaces

Images -how to add an images to your space

-this was created by a teacher for the students in his class.



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