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sk students to create study guides for a specific part of the unit you’re
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Make it a class project to collaboratively write a reference book that others can use.
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Get your class to create a glossary of terms they use and learn about in new units, adding definitions and images.
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Encourage students to submit words that they had trouble with, along with a dictionary entry
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Let your students share their collective information so that everyone gets a better understanding of the subject.
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Encourage students to draft rules and policies for the classroom.
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Make it a class project to create an FAQ for your classroom that will help new students and those that will come in years later.
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Using a wiki platform, students don’t have to worry about web design, so they can focus on content instead.
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Save links, documents, and quotes related to units or your classroom as a whole
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Work with other teachers to create lesson plans and track students’ success.
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What I've Learned from My PLN (August 22, 2009) - Teaching Village - 0 views

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The wikis include everything from test scheduling (internal) to early dismissal information (external).
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"We've saved lots of money," Cohen said. "But the real drag of using [expensive collaboration products] was you have these elaborate systems; parents had to get accounts; you had to give vendors the students' names; there was lots of work just to get it to work."
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With the Wikispaces, Cohen can just set the program up and have users do the work for him. Privacy concerns are minimal because the only publicly accessible information is the student's name and time of meeting,
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Cohen also likes the project because it was a simple way for teachers to "get their toes wet" with collaborative technology with a shallow learning curve and a high return on investment. For the spring semester, he said, teachers would actually have to sit and field calls for scheduling parent-teacher appointments.
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Demonstrating the value of collaborative technology, while teaching how to use it, is the hardest challenge in its adoption, said Zeus Kerravala, a Yankee Group analyst. "The success depends more on the utilization of the tools than the tools themselves," Kerravala said. Keeping it simple and easy to access increases the chance of success.
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Much of the essential documentation for teachers is now on wikis at the school, but Cohen still fields requests for how to do this, or for hard copies of those forms. He regularly denies such requests and points the users to the appropriate wiki page.
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"Kids only use technology for the things they want to use it for," Cohen said. "They won't necessarily check the website for their homework."
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Barbara Lindsey on 29 Aug 09

Excellent article on why and how a NYC school uses wikis

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Excellent article on why and how a NYC school uses wikis</div>

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