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Wikis ([|wikispaces for educators]) Background

I began using wikis with kids thinking that I would use them for directed projects--so here are a few examples of some answers to specific questions, and some math projects we did in 2008-2009, my first full year of using wikis with kids.

Math Reflections: Me and Math Me and Math Adding Consecutive Numbers Adding Consecutive Numbers

Math projects: Landmarks and Math Crozet 5th Grade 07-08

Then, in spring of 2009 we got our first iPod Touches. We got more in the fall, and our "deliverable" back to the county for them was to review iPod apps: Kid Reviews

In the fall of 2009, when I introduced wikis to 3rd and 5th graders, William began right away to carve his niche as a helper and very knowledgeable. William's Wiki Assistance

As kids began to do something independently that surprised me, I added cluster maps to their pages. Click on the map to see how many visitors they have had and from where. Play Review 1 3rd grader wrote this on the first Sunday of winter break. Play Review 2 Not to be outdone by a 3rd grader, a fifth grader talked his Mom into taking him and he, too, wrote a play review. The Set Game Adriana created this to specifically draw folks to her site. Darren asked at the end of the school year what he could do to make his wiki better. He began to reorganize it by years. (Now going into 5th grade, he's had one for three years.) Sister Katie Darren's sister, a 7 year old, began working on hers when he started working on his after school was out. I happened to see this tweet right after I had looked at hers and added a cluster map. So I responded and gave her Katie's wiki URL. There are a number of visitors from California--Could one of them be Ellen? Or even Katie's favorite singer, Taylor Swift?

Presentations: School Board 2008-2009 [|My School Board is a Learning Board] Parent Council January 2010 Tech Advisory Committee-Victoria As a fifth grader, Victoria served on our county Tech Planning Committee. At the last meeting in May, she and William got to meet their middle school principal and show him the iPad we had just gotten for our class.

Tech Planning Committee

Gaming Spinc Industreys

Polls Questions about School We Know School Poll About School As it Snows

Interactivity Wiley's Wonderful Wiki Nicolas [|William]

Blogs/Writing [| Victoria] [| Nicolas]

Student Reflections Crozet 5th grade wikiworld Crozet 3rd grade wikiworld

The following wikimail is from a kid going into 8th grade--he hasn't been with me for 2 years.

[|Daily Progress newspaper link]