Novel House Wiki

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Welcome to the SCS Novel House Wiki! 

 

 

This wiki could be one that a teacher starts that is then run by students.  It is a great way to extend learning and create link between home and school.

 

 

First things first - what is a wiki?

 

  • A wiki is an online document (a webpage) that can be edited right inside the web browser.  That means that these webpages are shared by everyone on the team or class. 
  • You can add any kind of information you want - even pictures

 

  • Wikis are free, online writing spaces. Wikis use simple formatting rules, so you don't need to understand HTML or an HTML authoring tools, such as Frontpage or Dreamweaver to contribute.
  • Wikis are designed as a writing space. Wikis are not meant to be a final presentation space or a course management system (Like Moodle). Wikis make it possible for writers to continually build upon, revise, and edit a piece of writing or contribute to a topic.

 

What Is a Wiki (and How to Use One for Your Projects)

 

How can teachers use wikis?

 

From writingwiki.org:

 

  • Provide a space for free writing
  • Debate course topics, including assigned readings
  • Share resources such as annotated bibliographies, websites, effective writing samples, conferences, calls for manuscripts
  • Maintain a journal of work performed on group projects
  • Require students to collaborate on documents, such as an essay written by the entire class
  • Discuss curricular and instructional innovations
  • Encourage students to revise Wikipedia pages or take on new wikipedia assignments
  • Inspire students to write a Wikibook
  • Support service learning projects (i.e. use wikis to build a website about a challenge in their city)

     

     

     

     

    Below are some ideas for the main pages that might be in your class/team wiki:

     

    These ideas below are from Mr. Lindsay's Class Wiki : http://mrlindsay.pbwiki.com/

     

     

     

    The Novel News page - artcles written by students about school and local/global news

     

    Novel Team Theme

     

    Check out the Sutton House Language Arts Wiki (in progress) 

     

    Classroom Journal - what's going on in the classroom - units, schedules, resources etc.

     

    Novel House Creates! - stories, poems and other creative pieces

     

    Novel Book Reviews -

     

    Novel Websites - Great websites shared by the kids for other kids to go and learn

  • Comments (1)

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    kari said

    at 2:38 pm on Sep 27, 2007

    I love this idea of a class or team wiki

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