This wiki is setup to provide educators and students with tips, suggestions, and templates for creating education wikis. - Wikis in Education. How teachers can use wikis in their classrooms.
A Wiki is a great place that is safe and secure to collaborate. You can embed videos. A wiki is a live evolving document. Great for teachers, students, and parents.
This is a website highlighter. It allows users to highlight information on website and it will be saved in your lighter account. Also has WIKI-lights where users can highlight information on the web and it is saved in a shared Wiki like space. Great for collaborative projects. Students could use this tool for WebQuests!
WikiMindMap is a tool to browse easily and efficiently in Wiki content, inspired by the mindmap technique. Wiki pages in large public wiki's, such as wikipedia, have become rich and complex documents. Thus, it is not always straight forward to find the information you are really looking for. This tool aims to support users to get a good structured and easy understandable overview of the topic you are looking fo
Provides a way to organize all the online groups under one umbrella. You may have a WIKI for your course, a discussion group for bookclub, WIKI for grade level; each with their one group of people who really do not overlap. Instead of organizing by site - you organize by people. Interesting idea as we become members of multiple online groups and get to know the people in them as well groups purpose and resources
As shown in class today, using a wiki such as wetpaint in place of a power point, blackboard or overhead projector can be successful. The benefit of using and editing problems and activities on a wiki is that your students can access these problems at home. This could also be useful in having the students post content and ask questions.
I first became aware of Moodle when I took algebra classes at CPCC. They have it installed on their servers to facilitate communication among students and teachers. It can also be used for online classes. It offers activity modules such as wikis, forums, databases, etc.
Worldwide, multi-language participative encyclopedia. Although not strictly acceptable as an academic research tool, it is useful for quick searches in everyday life.
Web site for classified ads. Some statistics: used by 50 million people, doing 12 billion page views per month, 8th most popular wiki for English language page views.
Similar to the Wiki. EtherPad allwos groups to create a website together in real time from any computer. Could be used for student tutorials or extra help from home.
This site (wiki) provides a number of interest, background and learning style surveys or questionnaires. This information can be useful for both students and teachers in building a successful classroom by allowing each to know individual profiles.
This site offers an online collaboration tool that is simpler than other similar sites. I would use it more for team planning or school event planning where you wish for feedback from multiple people. Similar to a wiki but not that elaborate hence easier to set up and use for instant feedback on a document or write up design ideas, etc
An internet hotlist on Web 2.0 for teachers. Provides a huge list of links to Web 2.0 websites useful for K-12 teachers listed by categories: internet resources, blogs, collaboration wiki sites, online productivity, fun stuff to try, elearning course links.
Edmodo - Microsharing in the Classroom
Edmodo provides a way for teachers and students to share notes, links, and files. Teachers can send alerts, events and assignments to students.