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=Uses for Wikis=

Scheduling use of the lab rooms. Sharing web sites that enhance classroom instruction Coordinating grade level projects, such as guest speakers Collaboration between members of extra curricular activities like clubs Student postings in response to reading Questions that students might have about work Greater teacher collaboration (our 7th grade does not have a common planning period)

I can see real possibilities to using a wiki in college teaching. The platform is easier to access than Blackboard, and the less formal wiki seems as though it might be less intimidating for students. I especially like that multiple sections of a class can communicate/collaborate about projects and assignments without having to do so through me.

Portfolios Communicating with parents Class discussions Assignment logs Student compilations of research (they could make their own science/grammar/math text books) Interactive digital storytelling (like a choose your own adventure book?)

Discussion and clarification of ACSIP plan.

Collaboration makes for a tighter curriculum and a pooling of resources and skills. Furthermore, more experienced teachers can work with the less experienced ones. This way, collaboration becomes curriculum by design and can address the comprehensive needs of students.

Our school district recently had issues with our idrive, and therefore it gets cleared out everyday, so we can't easily throw things on the idrive for others to use. A wiki is a safe way to share information, getting around our district's policy with the shared common drive. Also, the wiki has great accessibility to videos, links, photos.

Teachers should not only collaborate with members within their subject area. Broader groups can be formed to collaborate on discipline issues and classroom practices. A wiki could keep them in touch even with different schedules and locations within the building.

Collaborative teaching is a proactive educational approach in which general and special educators and related service providers work in a coactive and coordinated fashion to jointly assess, plan for, teach, and evaluate academically and behaviorally heterogeneous groups of students in an educationally integrated setting (i.e. regular classroom).

Student/Parent Communication--posting announcements, newsletters, etc.