"Welcome to Wikipedia for Schools! This selection of articles from Wikipedia matches the UK National Curriculum and can be used by school children around the world. 6000 articles, 26 million words and 50,000 images make Wikipedia for Schools bigger than Harry Potter, the Lord of the Rings and the Chronicles of Narnia put together!
Wikipedia is great, but it wasn't designed with the National Curriculum in mind. And because anyone can edit it, articles sometimes get vandalised. That's why we've put together this special collection to make learning as easy and safe as it can be. Here at SOS Children, we've checked all the articles, tidied them up a bit, and put them together by school subject.
SOS Children ( www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk) is a charity which works around the world to help children in need. As well as Wikipedia articles, we've collected pages from the SOS Children website, so you can learn more about the work we do in 125 countries around the world.
We would like to say thank you to the Wikimedia Foundation, the people who made the Wikipedia site. We would also like to thank the many people who have come together over the years to make Wikipedia what it is today."
Wiki full of comics that can be used in the social studies classroom and beyond! This Wiki is an attempt to help us share resources and ideas - it has taken me a lot of research to find these titles - I have not been able to find any sort of complete "list" of titles that would make it easy - so here we go!
Welcome to the Stories Come Alive Wiki. Here you will find many ideas for "digital story telling". Put away your paper and pencils and put technology at your fingertips. Your students will become more motivated and more excited about learning when you show them a variety of ways to present their topics or findings. The possibilities are endless.
Welcome to the Admin Learning Wiki! This home page contains some frameworks used in discussing an administrator's role in supporting a digital-age learning environment.
You can do a lot with wikis. But before you get to the fancy stuff, you have to master the basics - and that goes for your students, as well.
Now that the school year is underway, we put together a quick 15-20 minute activity, designed to get students comfortable with using wikis. All you need is this PDF handout, a wiki of your own, and a few minutes of preparation:
This wiki is a template that you can use for any Professional Development or Training sessions that address the use of wikis in education. With Mark's permission, we are making it available to educational technologists who are looking for tools to show their teams what can be accomplished with wikis in general - and wikispaces in particular - in the K-12 environment.
"With projects, you can put your wiki members into groups so they can work independently.
Each project on your wiki is made up of a unique set of teams of members, pages, files, and settings. There's no limit to the number of teams within a project, or to the number of pages within a tea"
A great wiki chocked full of resources for literacy in education including: Brain based learning, comprehension strategies & lessons, independent reading, lesson design, videos, word study, writing lessons, written response lessons, vocabulary and more!
The tutorials on this page include the "Bloom's Taxonomy - An Overview" and "Bloom's Taxonomy - Designing Activities".
REALLY nice animations for learning the new Bloom's
This is an online course for teachers who want to improve their classroom instruction. We're glad you've decided to participate in this exciting and challenging learning experience. The goal of this course is to help teachers improve student achievement by implementing research-based instructional strategies supported by the effective use of technology.
This site was created so that French teachers can collaborate and find the sources they need to empower students to read in French.
~If French and Francophone literature is part of your curriculum, this Wiki is for you!
~If you present your 21st century French language learners with authentic readings from the web, this Wiki is for you!
"We have created this wiki to house all of our collective works in 21st Century Teaching and Learning (Classrooms for the Future). This is for your reference and your use."
"Most educators hope that their teaching touches students in exciting ways so that the information conveyed makes an impact. One sure way to engage students is to make their educational experience fun. New teachers just starting out as well as experienced teachers who could use a breath of fresh air in their curriculum will love all the great tools available on the Internet to help make their teaching more entertaining. Some of the following tools will have teachers and students exploring wikis, open courseware, Twitter, blogging, comics, videos, and incorporating plenty of other tools that will help make learning fun."
Curriki is more than your average website; we're a community of educators, learners and committed education experts who are working together to create quality materials that will benefit teachers and students around the world.
Curriki is an online environment created to support the development and free distribution of world-class educational materials to anyone who needs them. Our name is a play on the combination of 'curriculum' and 'wiki' which is the technology we're using to make education universally accessible.
"I have created this wiki as a resource for those who are short on time, full of motivation, and loving their Smart Boards. My visions for this wiki are:
1. Provide Notebook presentations that are ready to go and require no extra work for you.
2. Provide Notebook presentations that you can edit and revamp to fit your needs.
3. Provide links to tutorials, websites, and other resources to make using your Smart Board easy.
4. Provide a place where YOU can upload YOUR Notebook presentations, ideas, and favorite resources."
This is the front page of the Simple English Wikipedia. Wikipedias are places where people work together to write encyclopedias in different languages. We use Simple English words and grammar here. The Simple English Wikipedia is for everyone! That includes children and adults who are learning English.
There are 67,234 articles on the Simple English Wikipedia. All of the pages are free to use. They have all been published under both the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 and the GNU Free Documentation License. You can help here! You may change these pages and make new pages. Read the help pages and other good pages to learn how to write pages here. If you need help, you may ask questions at Simple talk.
"The Songwriting Tools wiki is an idea base for songwriters, teachers, and creative musicians. This little piece of the web is being developed because many music students have an interest in writing songs, but the time demands on music instructors in schools are simply overwhelming! Novice songwriters will find help here, and overburdened teachers will now have a resource for their creative students!"