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** Ideas for Using Wikis in Education ** > Teachers can use them to collaborate and organize ideas for an upcoming unit.
 * 1) Student projects where group members need to contribute at different times and from diverse locations
 * 2) For collaborating on ideas and organizing documents and resources from groups of students
 * 3) As a presentation tool for a workshop
 * 4) As a group research project for a specific idea
 * 5) To manage school and classroom documents
 * 6) As a collaborative handout for students
 * 7) Teachers could share common lessons. Post feedback, or reflections on how it worked. This could be in one building, grade level or subject across the district, or through collaborating districts.
 * 8) Use as a tool to organize events which may require collaboration, input and work responsibilities from teachers, administrators, vendors, parents and students.
 * 9) Locate schools in other countries that would be interested in working with my International Business students to create lists of possible solution to issues of global concern (i.e. solutions for the worldwide economic crisis, solutions for global warming, stem-cell research concerns, etc.).
 * 10) Curriculum development between schools where teachers teach the same subject.
 * 11) A link to book related blogs and podcasts.
 * 12) Creating a link to author websites and blogs.
 * 13) For new teachers to try strategies and help each other with problems and things that work.
 * 14) A place where Instructional Technologists and Teachers can list and collaborate on ways to integrate technology into the classroom.
 * 15) Teachers could share information they have gained on a particular topic in school professional learning groups.
 * 16) Given a prompt students produce a "neverending story" where they add the next event in the story and pass it one the next writer(s).
 * 17) Lesson plan collaboration. Teachers post a favorite or challenging lesson plan for peers to assist and/or critique.
 * 18) A place where consultants who are working on projects together can collaborate and add ideas, activities, suggestions to presentations, agendas, project proposals, etc. All the things you would like to do in a meeting, but can't seem to get everyone together at the same time in one place.
 * 19) For student peer review on papers and projects.
 * 20) ===A place for students to create their own review guides for tests and share (and/or correct) with each other.===
 * 21) ===A place for students to list what they like and dislike about the music they are performing in Band. This will allow the teacher to choose music that better suites the students in the future.===
 * 22) ===A place for each student to have their own page to share writing, class projects, and audio/video recordings with their families, friends, and viewers around the world.===
 * 23) Librarians who are ordering books for the school can ask teachers to submit book requests with review and ordering links.
 * 24) A place to share instructional resources and homework strategies with parents. Parents can then respond, adding to the resource list or sharing their experiences.
 * 25) A wiki for parents to share parenting questions to each other.
 * 26) A place for parents to share what their children are sharing at home. A way for us to to do a check and balance with children.
 * 27) A place where a group of students how help to make a "how to list" to be used by the classroom (i.e How to get ready for your first job placement).
 * 28) A list of books that our class has read and a summery of each book written by my students. Parents can check out the wiki to see what we're reading and use it as an idea for discussions with their child at home.
 * 29) A list of ideas or links to research sites for the current debate topic.
 * 30) A class calendar that can be edited each year to include birthdays and other celebrations.
 * 31) Can be used to have students create a joint review sheet for an exam.
 * 32) For an art classroom students can post images of their work and then positively critique their classmates
 * 33) In a foreign language classroom, students can use a wiki to create groups of similar verbs in the various tenses.
 * 34) In an early childhood classroom parents can help children choose a favorite picture book and add the title to a list. The teacher could then use this list for classroom read-aloud time.
 * 35) A wiki could be used to post weekly class schedules, along with links to assignments.
 * 36) In an elementary general classroom, there could be a wiki to share new songs with a link to the tune or notation.
 * 37) Students can create a class rubric for a final project.
 * 38) A place for teachers to talk amongst each other on lesson plans or as a building discuss upcoming events.
 * 39) Teachers can collect and share related content (links, text, videos,etc) for a grade-wide unit plan on a specific topic.
 * 40) Teachers could use them to talk to each other about upcoming events, field trips, holiday parties, etc. Easier and cleaner than email.
 * 1) A place for teachers to publish their students writings for their fellow classmates and parents to see. Also, a wiki would be a cool place to even post a classroom news letter for parents to read and stay up to date with what their kids are doing in the classroom.
 * 2) A place for students to post questions about homework.
 * 3) Global projects.
 * 4) Havea list of fun educational websites that go along with what the students are learning in class. Organize them by the different subjects.
 * 5) A place for teachers and parents to communicate.
 * 6) Online projects to be edited/ completed by multiple users.