Elementary+Teachers

For elementary teachers, wikis are a great way to share class projects, information and important dates. You can use a wiki to connect with parents and students or even collaborate with other teachers around the world. =Here are some examples=

**Wiki**: 1000 Names

 * Teacher**: Kathy Cassidy, Grade 1/2
 * School**: Westmount Elementary, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
 * Description**: My students wondered what 1000 looked like, so we are collecting 1000 names.
 * Other Wikis**: Our Favorite Foods Graph, Our Dinosaur Wiki, Our Collaborative Hockey Story

**Wiki:** 2nd Grade Class Wiki

 * Teacher:** S. Ibrahim
 * School:** Elementary School in Southern California, USA
 * Description:** A site to provide an audience for 2nd graders to share their learning with the world!

**Wiki**: Arbor Heights Elementary

 * Teacher**: Mark Ahlness
 * School**: Arbor Heights Elementary, Seattle WA U.S.A.
 * Description**: Just starting out. May well replace school web site.

**Wiki:** Art4cast

 * Teacher:** Rosemary Mitchell
 * School:** Woodrow Wilson Elementary
 * Description:** This wiki is used to communicate, schedule, plan, and collaborate with the 30 teachers - a wonderful tool for an art specialist reaching 650 students for an hour a week.

**Wiki**: Classroom Google Earth

 * Teacher**: Tom Barrett ([|Teacher Blog])
 * School**: Priestsic Primary School, Nottinghamshire, England
 * Description**: I would like this space to be somewhere that allows students, teachers and other colleagues to share classroom based resources and ideas for Google Earth.

**Wiki**: Clearview SAILS

 * Teacher**: Ann Stambol
 * School**: Clearview Local Schools, Grade 3-6 Gifted, Lorain, OH
 * Description**: This site is a collection of my life's work as a teacher. I am also working on teaching my students how to create their own wikis to share their life's work.

**Wiki:** [|Creative Web Tools For and By Kids]

 * Teacher:** [|Jackie Gerstein]
 * School:** Sahuarita Unified School Arizone
 * Description:** Creative Web Tools For and By Kids is a WIki project designed for students, ages 8 to 12, to use emerging technologies for engaging, thinking, learning, collaborating, creating, and innovating. tudents identify a topic of interest. A WIki page is created for that topic. This page is used to identify specific learning goals, to locate and post links to sites that support those interests, and to begin creating web-based projects to creatively demonstrate their learning experiences. Students are encouraged to work on that page with one or more other students from their own classroom and from other classrooms who join the project.

**Wiki:** Cyber Chickens

 * Teacher:** Jan Abernethy ([|Blog])
 * School:** Greenville Area School District, East Elementary
 * Description:** A wikispace to showcase the work of a 5th grade class in Greenville, PA

**Wiki:** desbuffalo

 * Teacher:** [|Beverly Koopman (Classroom Blog)]
 * School:** Discovery Elementary, Buffalo, Minnesota
 * Description:** This wiki is designed as an interactive space for students who record their daily assignments, collaboratively write wiki-books and engage in discussions about books they have read and enjoyed. Feel free to contribute! Go to the blog link to see posts about classroom happenings, or to listen to podcasts done during a monthly Senior Citizen/student collaborative writing project.

**Wiki:** Monster Project Wiki

 * Teacher:** Terry Smith - [|Project Site]
 * School:** [|Eugene Field Elementary], Hannibal, Missouri USA
 * Description:** We use the wiki as a place for participant intereactions during this multi-school project. Schools each describe one part of the overall monster, then all schools use the combined descriptions to create monsters and display them in their schools. The goals are communicating with students far away, using our imaginations, teamwork, compromising, and expressing ourselves with poetry, stories, audio, and video.

**Wiki:** Mr. Mundorf's Class Wiki

 * Teacher**: Jon Mundorf
 * School:** [|Tommie Barfield Elementary School], Marco Island, FL, USA
 * Description:** While studying [|Universal Design for Learning] (UDL) at [|Harvard] during a summer institute, I learned about the importance of creating flexible materials that are accessible to all students. I designed a classroom Weblog [|(jmundorf.edublogs.org] and a classroom Wiki (jmundorf.wikispaces.com) as a way of introducing his students to a new technology while at the same time using a medium that is flexible and accessible.

**Wiki:** Mr Tromp's Grade

 * Teacher:** Calvin Tromp
 * School:** Black Hill Primary (Elementary)
 * Description:** Black Hill is a primary school in regional Victoria, Australia. We are a school of just over 500 students. As ICT Coordinator my challenge is to explore and model the potential new technology can have for classrooms. Wikis, along with Delicious, are two Web 2 applications I am promoting to teachers. We also have Smart Boards in every teaching space. Check out my grade's wiki which I am using to foster home-school communication and as a way for kids to publish their work.

**Wiki:** Ms Webster's Class Wiki

 * Teacher:** [|Ms. Webster], Southern California, USA
 * School:** San Miguel Elementary
 * Description:** The world is our classroom. We are a group of 2nd and 3rd grade students who are sharing what we are learning with the world!

**Wiki:** Mrs. Sheftel's Class Wiki

 * Teacher:** Mrs. Sheftel -- Centennial, CO
 * School:** Carl Sandburg Elementary School
 * Description:** A class wikipage where parents and students can access information about what is happening in the classroom. We have a homework page where homework information is posted, a link page where students can find game links and informational links about the units we study in the classroom, a page where student work is posted for parents to see, a poll page where students can respond to weekly post during the school year. Also (just added) a Just for Teachers page. On this page you can find a list of helpful links that you can use in your classroom with your students!!

**Wiki:** Roosevelt Wiki

 * Teacher:** S. Webster
 * School**: Roosevelt Elementary
 * Description**: Wiki for students (3-5) to share what they are learning about.
 * Topic:** Multiple Subjects (English Language Learners)

**Wiki:** Run to Meet you

 * Teacher:** [|Paul Wilkinson]
 * School:** [|Freeville School] New Zealand
 * Description**: Wiki to manage our "Run to meet you" project. Students run around a track at school and record their distance. We total the distances and track our progress on a [|community walk map]. Our current project is running to Uganda.

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