Examples of Collaborative Project Wikis

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Permalink Reply by Julie Baird on February 3, 2009 at 2:35am

I don't have the experience with wikis that Nancy Bosch and David Cox have, but I thought I would share my wikis anyway for you to see beginning wikis.

I've used wikis twice with my German students. The first is for the novella "Kein Schnaps für Tamara" and is at Scratchpad. This was my first entrance with a wiki and it was voluntary. One of my students' test scores were much better than normal because of this wiki. It helped him understand the story line and characters better. This really confused me because the wiki is in English and the test was all in German.

Our 2nd wiki is also over a book we're reading and it is currently in progress. I'm requiring my students to do the wiki and it is mostly in German. You can find this one at wikispaces. Please note that some of my students love to format and there doesn't appear to be any uniformity in the looks of the wiki. Right now we are working on adding content. I don't know how the finished product will look.

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Permalink Reply by Tanya Travis on February 4, 2009 at 1:18pm

What grades do you use for these wikis? Language classes are not available in our district until grade 6. The only languages to choose from are Spanish or French. I'm hoping sharing these links might inspire some interest in languages at the elementary level.

I also just wanted to mention that I really enjoyed reading the content. My family immigrated here from, of all places, Germany. It was a treat to try to see how much of my first language I could still read. Thanks for sharing.

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Permalink Reply by Rick Biche on February 4, 2009 at 8:22am

Here a two for you (actually more than that if you follow links on these first ones). Our Amistad wiki project is all student created- four different wikis for four different classes. This one is about content and is complete. The second wiki is our science fair wiki. This site has about 400 students. Different classes are in different places in regards to progress so the site is definitely still in development. This one is good for showing individual student work and the discussions around the work. Check out the projects page for links to individual projects and the accompanying discussions.

Hope this helps

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Permalink Reply by Tanya Travis on February 4, 2009 at 12:57pm

Thanks for sharing your sites. My own students are building their first wiki on the water cycle and your wikis will be great models to share with my fourth graders. I had been struggling with finding an effective way to have students combine content information with presenting the results of experiments. Looking at these sites back to back gave me several ideas.

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Permalink Reply by Rick Biche on February 4, 2009 at 1:37pm

Glad you could get something from these. I would love to see your students work if you can post it.

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Permalink Reply by Tanya Travis on February 4, 2009 at 1:48pm

We just started the project last week so it will be a while before we are done. I can send you the link when we are done.

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Permalink Reply by Brenda Muench on February 4, 2009 at 10:33am

I have used a wiki in my 3rd grade music classes to collaborate with a 5th grade music teacher from another area. Our wiki is at composerproject.wikispaces.com

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Permalink Reply by Tanya Travis on February 4, 2009 at 1:01pm

Unfortunately, I have no music teachers attending my upcoming PD, but I will share this site on my collaborative projects wiki and directly with music teachers in my district. Thanks for sharing.

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Permalink Reply by Shelley Paul on February 5, 2009 at 10:59am

Here are a few of ours. This is a great thread to watch.

Grade 5 – http://wiki.woodward.edu/hannalee/doku.php
Novel study of Turn Homeward, Hannalee. This was the first wiki project for my school and the students were really engaged. It was before I discovered Wikispaces, so the students were actually doing some wiki markup, which was a neat layer.

Grade 4 - http://mysideofthemountain.wikispaces.com
Novel study for My Side of the Mountain

Grade 3 – http://gowest.wikispaces.com
Third grade study of Westward Expansion.

Grade 2 - http://wnsecondgrade.wikispaces.com/
This is a collaborative space for three second grade classes – lots of different projects and the kids are creating some of the content. Most recent is the penguin research.

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Permalink Reply by Jen on February 6, 2009 at 2:10am

Here is a wikipage that I had set up that would "house" collaborative projects done with my third graders and other schools.

www.fvkennedy2008.wikispaces.com

It contains Voicethreads, Google Docs, videos, PodCasts, and other examples.

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Permalink Reply by Sean Hanson on February 6, 2009 at 5:21am

I'm in the middle of a project with some of my high school students (we're in the research phase of the project). There will be three graded parts - the research process, their presentation of their topic (using PowerPoint) and then their wiki page. We'll have a starting point page where you can get to all of the pages for the project and then the kids will be creating the pages themselves. Some of the people being researched have multiple students assigned to them so they'll have to work together to put the information on the site. This project is currently being geared towards autistic kids so some of the rigor has been scaled back a tiny bit and will be expanded if the kids prove they can handle it (this is the first time they've done a project of this sort, so they're a little anxious).

http://vanguardcomputers.wikispaces.com/people (starting page for project - eventually will have links)
http://vanguardcomputers.wikispaces.com/hanson (example & btw - not my real birthday in there ;-) )

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Permalink Reply by Tanya Travis on February 6, 2009 at 3:34pm

Great project! To provide children with autism a project that will also provide opportunities to socially interact and make decisions together is impressive.

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