This document discusses using wikis in elementary classrooms and provides examples of student work on a class wiki. It explains that third graders can successfully use and contribute to wikis. The wiki allows teachers to assess student understanding, compare work to peers, and share technology projects with parents. It also provides ideas for collaboration within and outside the classroom.

1. Wikis in the Elementary Classroom Yes, Third Graders Can Do It!

2. Presented by: Julie Myrmel and Diane Rich 3rd grade teachers Bauer Elementary School Hudsonville, MI 49426 email: [email_address] [email_address]

3. Our Journey podcasting class blog wiki

4. What’s a Wiki? WICK-ee or WEE-kee, Hawaiian for quick. It’s a webpage that lets contributors easily add, remove, edit, and change what is at the site. A wiki can be password protected or open to any user. Ours is hosted by our Intermediate School District

5. Michigan Curriculum Framework Language Arts Grade Level Content Expectations (GLCE’s) reading writing speaking listening viewing National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) Blogs, Wikis and Podcasts can be used to meet the...

6. Power of an authentic audience for the students

8. What We’ve Tried--Our Wiki http://blogs.oaisd.org/wiki/doku.php

9. Allows us to assess the level of understanding of all of the students food chains A food chain is what some thing eats anather and eats anather.food comes from the sun.Dead things grow on things are called decomposers what brake things down.Consumer is a plant what gets eaten by a producer .A producer is what eats plants. YUK!Energy comes from ,trees,plants,flowers bees take the neckter for hunny. Here is What i know About Black History Michael Jordan Was not Always realley tall and the slaves Fought in the REV. WAR but not for the U.S.A. Black history was a sad thing. Black pepole where kidnapt and got put in a auktion and sold to white pepole and they had to work for the white allday long and if they did stop they wou get wipped.Some got away by following the drinking gored to the U.G.R but it was not really under ground it was just some white pepole that thouht slavery wasent right so they would help the black get away to fedom some made it and some dident. Location tells where something can be found. It can also include longitude and latitude. Location can be numbers,streets or addresses. One relative location is that you would say Maddie lives by Rachel. And the last thing is ,you can find people by looking in a phone book or to call them and ask them what street they live on. Pretend you are taking a trip to go to Florida. And you’ re lost. So you look at some different signs and one of them says this way to go to Florida. So you take that way and then you aren’t lost. Another one is if you’re driving and your lost you could look in a map. And thats what I know about location.

10. Hi, my name is Thomas a foll gron man can fitt side wase in a whale sharks maoth Thomas, I have made the spelling errors bold . Please use the tools you have to fix them. Don’t forget capitals and periods too. Thanks,Mrs. Rich Hi, My name is Thomas A full grown man can fit sideways in a whale sharks mouth. Hi My name is Janelle! I have 12 cows. They are boy cows. They have 4 stomachs. Janelle, Do all cows have 4 stomachs, or just your 12 boy cows? Maybe you could make that clearer. Mrs. Rich Yes all cows have four stomachs Janelle, how about rewriting your original sentences to make it clearer. After you do that, you can delete all of these messages from me. Don’t forget to save the changes. Hi My name is Janelle! I have 12 cows. They are beef cows. All cows have 4 stomachs. Some are black & white. Some are red.The cows get tall when they are butchered. Shows teachers the skills that need to be targeted for individual and small groups of students. My Addition! My mom decided to add an addtion to our house and then I came up to my mom and I said, “mom I would like to move downstairs and have my own bedroom”. And so my mom said, " would you like to have your own bedroom?”. I said, “yes”. And so my mom said she will think about it. So I said, “ok”. The next day I woke up and I saw mom talking to the builder and then my mom came in and said to me, " would you really really want your own bedroom?”. I said, “yes”.

11. Allows parents to compare their child’s work to classmates. hi my name is kassie i am 8 yers old. i like hores a lot i have whun of my one his name is moon i love him a lot.My best frindse are mrith Enya and madilin. hi my name is Colton i am eight years old i love soccer and football and baseball and i have six people my family i have pets their dogs their names are bailey shes a germenshepard myother dogsname is parker but i dont no what kind it is Hi my name is Natalie. Pink is my favorite color. I love gymnatics. The bunny is my favorite animal. Christmas is my favorite holiday. Chapter books are my favorite books. I have 5 people in my family. Carrie Underwood is my favorite singer. When I grow up I want to be a teacher. One berning day a little girl was chaseing me. So I started runing. I was runing arouned the monkey bar’s. But she would not stop. And I thoult if I jump acoss the monkey bar’s and runing she would stop. So I did jump and grabed the bar... but I sliped because my hands and after LOL I did that I pritty much did a flip. Then I SLAMED my left arm on a bar so hard I herd a crack.:-X And I started crying.8-o My teacher Mrs. Teal thalt I broke it becauseLOL I never really cry. But my parents thalt I did not brake my arm.But they wonted to be sher so they took me to:-x the docter. And I got it Xrayed and sure enouf I broke my arm. So I had to git a cast. But I did not git to pick my cast. So I had to git a blane white one. And I was not happy:!::-| And you think I could stay home but I did’int.:-( Ouch! That hurt. It really does. When I scrach my foot.

12. Social Networking Hey Nicole maby this recess we can play with our littlest petshops Rachel hey nicole can i play with you guys with the littlest pet shop today? i will bring mine tomorrow!!!!!!! -MADISON R. You spelled resses wrong on my science page- Rachel S. Hi Madi! I saw the “Caitlyn” page. Its kind of empty but I’m sure you’ll think of something to put in there. From: Caitlyn Well, Rachel, you spelled “recess” wrong as well! Mrs. Myrmel Hi Madi will you work on my page now? anyway cool wiki hi I like your wiki but on your catlin page it only thing it says is catline from Bailey Bailey you spelled Caitlyn wrong and madi will you work on my page? I like dogs too Austin.Janelle :-x I have a standard poodle. BlakeÈ hey Austin call me some day. BRAD Yo Austin Have You Heard OF the Rapper Akon ?

13. Hi!! Your wiki is awsome LEAVE ONE IN MY WIKI PLESE!:-o Maddie Thank you for that comment in my personinal narritive!;-) your friend Maddie Hi, Sara this is Emily your Assembly page is awsome! Hi sara you may thanks for asking-Emily Hey Maddie I just looked at your Black history page and you wrote that harrit Tubman helped 300 familys and she helped 200 familys. I just thought I would tell you that so you can FIXME!-Emily:-D Hi maddie I feel bad about your dog! From Sara! Maddie your wiki is awsome I like the end how it goes like this see you later allagater that is cute and is your dads leg better I hope it is-Sara:-D I didn’t now that carrieunderwood was your favorite singer. Hi natalie I never new you wanted to be a teacher. from Payton i love the singer Carrieunderwood too Allison hi Natalie I can totaly be your best friend and i can’t wait till the talint show. From:Payton I like Carrie Underwood. Janelle Hey Natalie I would like to start practiceing soon.Payton

14. Wow! I can’t beleve that it is almost my moms wedding. She is geting married on March 3rd. I am going to be the Maid of Honnor. [which is the first brids maid] :-D The color of my dress is perreywincle. I am so iksited!LOL They Are Excited to Share My Addition! My mom decided to add an addtion to our house and then I came up to my mom and I said, “mom I would like to move downstairs and have my own bedroom”. And so my mom said, " would you like to have your own bedroom?”. I said, “yes”. And so my mom said she will think about it. So I said, “ok”. The next day I woke up and I saw mom talking to the builder and then my mom came in and said to me, " would you really really want your own bedroom?”. I said, “yes”. So she went back outside and they both came in and went downstairs and into my new bedroom and then I followed them down the stairs and I peeked in and I heard the builder say “I will get started on it today”. I thought “Yipy!!LOL“. I was so excited to have my new bedroom because I used to sleep with my sister when I was about 5 years old and she would kick me like crazy. I could not go to sleep. Now I have my own bedroom!!! It was so much fun that I have my own bedroom. Thank you for listening to my page about my new bedroom!!!^_^ We just got done reading a book called Silver.It is about a girl named Rachel and her dog named Ruf and she has a liter of puppies and Rachel takes a dog for her self and names it Silver and Silver runns away and Rachel finds him. It was a good book. If you want to get it go to the libray and check it out. Trust me you will like it.

15. It’s perfect for sharing technology projects with parents.

16. Homework

19. The Missing Piece.... Collaboration The power of the wiki lies in the authentic audience that allows interaction with people other than the teacher. Questions to ponder: What grades to go to for collaboration? How to find tech savvy teachers to collaborate with?

25. Choose Your Own Ending using wikispaces

26. Connecting and Collaborating Wiki

27. Play Around! visit: www.wikispaces.com www.seedwiki.com w ww.pbwiki.com ww w.wetpaint.com