Wiki #1: River Trails School District 5th grade vocabulary wiki
This wiki is used for vocabulary only. There is a page for each letter of the alphabet that contains all the vocabulary words beginning with that letter. The students can edit the page and post real life situations where they came across the word. They include the quote with the source they found it in. The students edited the font style of the vocabulary word to make it stand out and shared their name under their post. The words could be found in books, tv, or anywhere else in real life. I think this is an excellent use of a wiki. This encourages students to listen for their vocabulary words in their day to day life. It also creates a resource for them to get several examples of the word being used in sentences. This definitely assists them in learning the words.
http://ig5thgrade.pbworks.com/w/page/4619994/FrontPage
This wiki is really impressive. It seemed to be a pretty open wiki that was being used for multiple subjects and purposes in the classroom. It has a section that had an attachment with the schedule for taking home the class pet. There was a section with things you should know and rules for the wiki. The students were able to post their own rules that they came up with which I love. Everything was organized into sections. Students had shared poetry, endings to sentence prompts. There was a “book chat” section where they shared books they were reading and included a picture of the cover. There was also a section with voicethreads they can created. This wiki is similar to what I would love to utilize when I have my own classroom. It was different from the first in that it had much more to it as the other was only for vocabulary. I think both purposes can work well. I did like the more in depth instructions on the second grade page but they are also younger than the fifth graders and probably needed it more.
http://ig5thgrade.pbworks.com/w/page/4619994/FrontPage
Wiki #2: Super Second Graders in Mrs. Hopkins’ class
This wiki is really impressive. It seemed to be a pretty open wiki that was being used for multiple subjects and purposes in the classroom. It has a section that had an attachment with the schedule for taking home the class pet. There was a section with things you should know and rules for the wiki. The students were able to post their own rules that they came up with which I love. Everything was organized into sections. Students had shared poetry, endings to sentence prompts. There was a “book chat” section where they shared books they were reading and included a picture of the cover. There was also a section with voicethreads they can created. This wiki is similar to what I would love to utilize when I have my own classroom. It was different from the first in that it had much more to it as the other was only for vocabulary. I think both purposes can work well. I did like the more in depth instructions on the second grade page but they are also younger than the fifth graders and probably needed it more.
http://ig5thgrade.pbworks.com/w/page/4619994/FrontPage
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