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Wikis are an exceptionally useful tool for getting students more involved in curriculum. They're often appealing and fun for students to use, while at the same time ideal for encouraging participation, collaboration, and interaction. Using these ideas, your students can collaboratively create classroom valuables.

I made this wiki for a school PD session I ran. It contains links to my class wikis and other things I use in class. Let me know what you think.

This is a copy of the work program I use with my ancient history classes at Sheldon, starting the year at the beginning of February. Let me know if our topics overlap and our classes can collaborate on their research.

This is the work program I use my ancient history classes.

Great comparison between Wikis, Blogs, and Google Docs. Gives examples, pros and cons for each. Very Usefull

This is where using the net gets tricky for students. We tell them never to use wikis (for good reason) and then something like this comes along. It's awesome. A fast-growing wiki (a site that anyone can add to) of historical sources. Shows why we need something like Diigo to filter the internet and provide guidance for the students regarding what to use in their research. Run by the same people as Wikipedia (Wikimedia). If you're ever looking for historical images can I suggest Wikimedia Commons.

It is a wiki, however contains useful overviews of the most significant periods in European history.

Still into the wikis. This collection doesn't show evidence of much development yet, however it could grow into a quality collection in future. Some of the topics are a little obscure. 'A History of Nejd'. Not quite sure on that one.

Amazing, resourceful, student-centered class wiki for US History.  Student blogs, course content, projects and assignments.  Fantastic resource for any social studies teacher.

A page on Muslim immigration to the United States on the resourcesforhistoryteachers wiki with a focus on historical patterns and contemporary facts.

Even though this is a wiki I've found this site useful for getting images to use for PowerPoints, assignment sheets, etc. It can be a bit hit-and-miss but is usually pretty good, I reckon.

This wiki is run by the American Historical Association and is a clearinghouse of archival material. I have no idea what that means but the site seems to have links to some primary sources which is a cool thing.

I know wikis are inherently dodgy but I've found Wikisource a brilliant place for historical research. Contains the transcripts of a heap of famous speeches.

A wiki for sources. How cool is that?