Megan,+Chrissy,+Jen+and+Courtney

Megan Murphy Chrissy Ostrowski Jen Gray Courtney Claypoole

Project 3- Wiki Project

1) Megan- Web 2.0 is a way to show data and stay connected with classmates and teachers outside the classroom, and is a great resource for sharing work with other individuals and gathering ideas from others.

Chrissy- Web 2.0 is a way for individuals to share their work with others and is a good way for students, teachers and the students family to stay connected and informed on what is taking place in the classroom.

Jen- A great interaction between the classroom and home life, and it would be useful for the web 2.0 to be used all classrooms.

Courtney- Web 2.0 is a way to connect the teachers, students, and parents/guardians at home. People at home can stay involved with teachers and what is going on in the classroom. A great way to involved parents in students schoolwork.

2) A wiki space that we felt was superb was Mrs. Brahim's 2nd grade wiki. What we found that we really liked was that each student had created their own wiki site where they published a personal narrative about themselves. This allows students to get to know each other better. What we also liked was the tabs on the side of the site. The content areas are posted on the side, these lead you to content pages where there is a list of what topics they have covered and some links are also provided. Another thing that we discovered and felt that students would find very interesting is a map that is located on the site. The map is a link to Clustrmaps, this map shows where in the world people have visited their site. It was surprising to see that people even in Africa and Asia had visited their site. http://mrsibrahim.wikispaces.com/

3) A collection of resources - a minimum of 3 links (it can also be articles, resources about wiki) - on educational use of wikis, that you can use in your own teaching later.

http://www.teachersfirst.com/content/wiki/wikiideas1.cfm http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com/Examples+of+educational+wikis http://teachweb2.blogspot.com/2007/08/elementary-wiki-ideas.html