Wikis

Homework and Classroom Support

 * [|Branford High School English 10] - a well-organized course website that includes an assignment calendar, expectations, and student response pages.
 * Mrs. Abernathy's 5th Grade Gorillas - a site to share classroom information, post student work, and communicate with parents.
 * At Discovery Elementary School in Buffalo, Mrs. Koopman has a class wiki for her 5th grade students.
 * The Qatar Academy posts detailed instructions for students to create their own wikis as research projects. While student wikis are protected, the pages in which the teachers set up the assignment are viewable.
 * [|Mr. Jones], also of the Qatar Academy, has his entire curriculum, including rubrics, expectations, and resource links available for students and parents.
 * Webquests such as After the War might be organized as a wiki.
 * A teacher in Alabama provides her Geometry and Algebra II students with [|detailed support] for passing the math portion of the Alabama High School Graduation Exam.

Classroom Projects

 * Students work in teams to research and report on their assigned regions in Les Regions de France. The discussion forums on each page are used by the group and by the teacher to share information, resources, and reminders throughout the project.
 * A Broken World is a student-created wiki textbook covering the period from the beginning of World War I through the Cold War. The "textbook" was created over a period of 4 months by students in a 9th grade Modern World History class.
 * Read research about pirates on the wiki created by GATE students at ARRRPirates. The project from last year asked students to follow specific research guidelines in creating an informative website.
 * The Middle School Math Forum is a place for students at two different school sites to share information and resources to support their understanding of math. This site was the initial implementation, during the 2007-2008 school year,

Beyond School Borders: Collaboration

 * Voices of the World - a structured collaboration opportunity for primary classrooms representing 33 schools on 4 continents.
 * Morpheus Fortuna is a traveling bog turtle, visiting classrooms around Pennsylvania. Each school he visits adds a page to the wiki detailing his adventures during the week he is with them.
 * The teachers of Newport-Mesa School District have created a wiki to organize resources to support the Houghton Mifflin curriculum in grades K-4.