How could a Wiki be used in schools and/or classrooms?

Click "Edit page" to edit this list.

This is just the start of a collection of things you could do with a wiki in the educational environment. What can you add to the list below?

  • Collaborative writing: start a poem on a wiki and ask students to add to the poem.
  • Posting drafts of policy documents.
  • Post any unfinished piece that will be revisited and edited.
  • Start and draft of class rules and have students add to them.
  • Compile a school history.
  • Post my golf team statistics and results.
  • Have writing students write a cummulative story with each student adding a sentence or paragraph.
When adding, put a star "*" and space " " before items.
Use hyphens "-" to cross items out

Examples of Wikis in Education

Westwood Wikispace
Stanford Digital Journalism
AP Calculus

What is a Wiki? .mp3

Other Links

http://ideasandthoughts.org/2006/08/05/21st-century-pd-is-on-wikis/
Wikipedia
The Wiki Prayer
Wiki Style Sheet

Text formatting

One * at the beginning of a line makes a bullet point, like this.
One ! makes a huge headline
Two !! makes a big headline (like "Text formatting" above)
Three !!! makes a small headline
Two * before and after something makes it bold
Two apostrophes ' before and after something makes it italic
Three dashes ---- make a horizontal bar
One vertical bar before and after something puts a box around it
Surrounding text with and makes it underlined
To make wiki ignor its normal formatting: (longer sections) or (shorter sections) tags. For example, to use square brackets in a sentence, you would write <raw>[blah blah].


Links

If you use two capital letters in a word with lowercase letters in between, pbwiki will automatically recognize the word as a link to a page. This is why we write words that LookFunny like SandBox instead of sandbox or Sandbox. If you use a word like FunnyWord but don't yet have a page called FunnyWord, you can create such a page by just clicking on the word.

You can also just type or paste in URLs like http://pbwiki.com/ - you can beautify URLs by adding brackets, like this: pbwiki (click Edit to see how this was done)
You can also show pictures in your wiki. Just add the link to the picture in brackets! (Click edit above to see how I added the sandwich here!)

Email addresses like support@pbwiki.com - just prefix with mailto:

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