Thing # 8

Well, I was surprised by the Wikis. This is a good way to communicate and change things by adding your own two cents worth to the site, plus maybe adding more needed information or responses. One of my favorite wiki sights was the "Thousands Project". Fifth graders had posted questions and wanted to get 1000 responses to their posts. (And they did on most of them.) The next one I liked was "Kindergarten Counting Book". It had used real photos to count to 100 and invited people to add to their project. "Let's Go West" used a program like we have on the computers at I school called_____________. (I can't recall it now.) It was laid out almost like a Thinking Map and had information, pictures, graphs, etc. The "Holocaust Project" was different in the fact that it was laid out like the Wikipedia sight which I like very much and use quiet often.
I can see so many uses for a wiki from the classroom to personal uses. I would like to set up a wiki using reading strategies and let students add all of the different strategies they use when reading for pleasure, informational text or TAKS tests.