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=Ways to Use a Wiki=

Brainstorm as many ideas as you can about how wikis can be used in education.

Administrators

 * Share teaching techniques/strategies among staff
 * Provide summer reading list for students and staff
 * Build a collaborative meeting agenda
 * Develop Strategic Planning and Goals (like Technology Plan)
 * Create a folder of Best Practices for staff to enter and recall ideas
 * Sharing of websites and curriculum materials
 * Working collaboratively on newsletters/memos
 * Brainstorming issues such as working with students that struggle
 * Share important concepts from current readings
 * Answer discussion questions from a book study group
 * Create a school calendar where staff can add school activities
 * Work collaboratively on curriculum development.
 * Attach and share pertinent curriculum documents.
 * Use for professional development with staff such as 23 Things for Teachers or Administrators.
 * Work collaboratively on the weekly parent e-newsletter with staff and administration, where staff can add their news
 * Develop a curriculum mapping process
 * Develop a curriculum map
 * Create an interactive web page where staff can share resources, build weekly calendars, share positive experiences
 * Share collective meeting notes
 * Facilitate conversation after a podcasts, slideshare, or video
 * Ask for staff/parent input on various school issues
 * Use this tool to create a space to save school improvement meeting agendas, notes, and other artifacts.
 * Work collaboratively with other building administrators to discuss challenges in education and how we are working to overcome them in creative ways.

Teachers

 * Create an interactive sub plan. Include a Voki reading the assignment instruction
 * Keep up on pacing guides and common assessments
 * Collaborative work on curriculum
 * Grade level planning
 * Create common lesson plans for particular concepts
 * Share useful resources or SMART board lessons
 * Collaborative resources, tools, and ideas for speech and language teachers
 * Allow students from different schools to work on a joint project together.
 * Teachers can develop curriculum maps, interventions, class management tools, resources for field trips,
 * Use one for collaborative professional development such as Project-Based Learning or Differentiated Instruction.
 * Collaborative projects with schools in other countries.
 * Create a homework comment, question, and answer space
 * Create a grade level, subject area, or school wide supply list
 * Develop a curriculum resouce for student use - assignments, strategies, differentiation, resources, vocabulary, etc.
 * Provide tips, tools, and links for families as a resource.
 * Share tips that have created success in the classroom in various topics.

Students

 * Create a wiki to share ideas about a certain issue such as bullying, peer pressure, or drugs
 * Prepare an agenda to a pep assembly or dance
 * Creating a list of books that they read/reflect on
 * Questions/Answers about homework or lessons
 * Student Government can collaborate on an idea by editing collectively a wiki.
 * National Honor Society community service calendar and sign-up
 * Collaborate on a group project
 * Share class notes
 * Gather ideas for programs that students would like to see at school
 * e-portfolio
 * Student Council collaboration and information

Parents

 * Sign up to furnish classroom or party supplies
 * Creating a parenting testimonial page
 * Answer interview questions about their childhood, family traditions, heritage, etc.
 * Offer fundraising ideas for a school parent group
 * Parent/Teacher Association calendar and parent sign-up to assist/chaperone at events.