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Below are some activities and ideas for using WIKIs in the classroom. Feel free to add your own...
KITCHEN GARDEN PROGRAM Wiki spaces would be a fantastic place to add our photos of the garden and cooking classes. Students could reflect on the lesson and add suggestions for the following weeks class. They also vote for their favourite recipes which are included in the school's newletter. This would be an easy way to collate the votes.

VCAL projects I think this would be a great tool for VCAL students to log in and record journals and progress of their projects. for example; my students are currently designing a christmas in july project. They have linked with the senior citizen home and have invited them to school for a fully catered christmas dinner. Currently they are using a portfollio however next time it would be good to use the wiki.

STORM WATER GARDEN
This WIKI space seems ideal for projects with a design element. For example, recently Debney Park Secondary College was awarded a $10,000 Storm Water Garden to be built at school. Different pages could be used to capture its design, progress and areas for students to be involved. Pages could include:
 * How and why DPSC applied for the garden
 * Current status of the project
 * Garden design and locations
 * Plant information and research
 * Student tasks available - ie opportunities to be involved in project

Olympics WIKI
Set up a WIKI space dedicated to this year's Olympic Games.

Create separate pages for different topic areas of the games such as:
 * History
 * Sports
 * Location
 * Medal Tally

Create a page that defines the contributors' tasks. It may be that each student will be required to contribute a paragraph and a non-text based item (image, podcast, video) to each page or topic.

Create a resources page where you provide links to web sites and online resources that can be used for reference. It is a good idea to get students/contributors to add their own resource links to this page as well.

What I Wish I Could Learn At School

 * Get students to develop an ongoing list of things that they would love to learn more about.
 * Allow students opportunity to share their knowledge on topics suggested.

Use a Wiki as an area for students to create their digital protfolios. You could assign a page per student OR have students work in groups with a Wiki for each group OR have each student create their own Wiki about themselves where they elect who else can be contributors.

What I Think Should Be In the ......... Test

 * If you have a test coming up, provide a space where students can suggest what they believe will be/should be in the test
 * Allow students to develop study resources and share their knowledge relating to test topics

Book Club WIKI
Set up a WIKI for the readers at your school where they can comment on books they have read and make recommendations for other students. It can be linked to the library homepage and include lists of the new books in the library as well as links to sites such as the Children's Book Council of Australia and the Premier's Reading Challenge. Staff could also be encouraged to contribute comments about their reading.

School Camp

 * Take along a digital camera and ask students to take photos and upload to a shared wiki.
 * Invite other students to access the photos and to write about what they liked/didn't like about each of the places visited.
 * Include a "ranking and reason" section to allow students to vote for their favourite part of the camp. (They give a score for that part and justify it.)

**Wiki Ideas on the Web**
I found this link while researching Wikis, I hope it provides some ideas for use of Wikis in class http://wikisineducation.wetpaint.com/page/How+we+use+wikis+in+class

Colaborative Research Project in LOTE
A really simple way to use a wiki in the LOTE classroom would be to have students contribute information on whatever aspect you choose, e.g. students could each choose a different city of the country or countries in which the LOTE is spoken, and be responsible for providing the appropriate information. The criteria/guidelines for the research project could be provided on the wikispace, along with resources for the students to use.


 * __Anatomical Project__**

Students would have responsibility to research and become an expert in designated specific body parts or areas, until collectively we have enough information to cover the entire human body. Students would develop this anatomical model over time, adding or editing information as it becomes available to them.