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= Wiki projects - Adults  =

= = = Enter Leaders' Adults wiki! = =Suggestions: =

- Check the Instituto Cultural Argentino Británico website =How to make the most of a class wiki = (Excerpted from 50 Ways to Use Wikis for a More Collaborative and Interactive Classroom

** Wikis are great tools for encouraging student participation, collaboration and interaction. Here are some ideas to use wikis with your students: **

** ~ Virtual field trips **: Have your students research far away places they would like to go on a field trip, and get them to share images and information about the location. ** ~ Study guides **: Ask students to create study guides for a specific part of the unit you’re studying. ** ~ Glossary **: Get your class to create a glossary of terms they use and learn about in new units, adding definitions and images. **~ Exam review **: Encourage students to share review notes and other helpful pieces of information on your classroom’s wiki. **~ Peer review **: Allow students to draft their papers in a wiki, then ask other students to comment it. **~ Student portfolios **: Assign portfolio pages to each of your students, and allow them to display and discuss their work. **~ Correction competition **: You can post a document riddled with mistakes, then have students compete to see who can fix the most errors fastest. **~ Peer editing **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: Ask students to edit each others’ work for spelling, grammar, and facts based on a style guide or rules you’ve defined. **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">~ Vocabulary lists **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: Encourage students to submit words that they had trouble with, along with a dictionary entry. **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">~ Get feedback **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: Ask students to post comments on wiki pages. **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">~ Share notes **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: Let your students share their collective information so that everyone gets a better understanding of the subject. **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">~ Fan clubs **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: Start fan clubs for your students’ favorite figures from history and ask them to contribute their favorite quotes, photos, and other tidbits together. **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">~ Track projects **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: With wikis, it’s easy for students to see which tasks have been completed and which ones still need to be fulfilled. **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">~ Multi-author story **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: Start a creative writing unit, and get your students to write a short story together, each writing a small amount of the story. **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">~ Choose your own adventure story **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: A twist on the multi-author story could be a choose your own adventure story, where each student branches out into a different path. **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">~ Share reviews **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: Post articles for different movies, books, and TV shows, encouraging students to share what they thought about them. **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">~ Literature circles **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: Host a book club on your wiki where students are required to read the same book, then discuss it on the wiki. **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">~ Classroom scrapbook **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: Share news, photos, and current achievements in your classroom on a wiki page. **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">~ Calendar **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: Create a calendar on the wiki and encourage students to add their own personally important dates. **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">~ Classroom newspaper **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: Create your own news outlet on a wiki. **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">~ Hall of fame **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: Highlight students’ exceptional achievements on the wiki. **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">~ Classroom policies **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: Encourage students to draft rules and policies for the classroom. **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">~ Local history **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: Document historical buildings, events, and more from our community. You can ask students to perform interviews, and encourage parents and other adults to contribute their knowledge in the wiki. **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">~ Share achievements **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: Let parents log in to the wiki to see what their children have accomplished.

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