Prior to taking this course I'd never heard of a Wiki. Then, since I began there have been several references to Wiki's. I've been like, "What is a Wiki!?" I told myself to be patient and the day has finally come. I know what a Wiki is! :)
Every year, during our dinosaurs unit, we create a class encyclopedia where students draw a dinosaur of their choice and write some basic information about it such as: name, size, what it eats, etc. After each student creates their info sheet on their dinosaur we could use a Wiki to create our encyclopedia and maybe even share with the rest of the Kinder classrooms. This would help reinforce what they know about their dinosaur, expand their resource base to learn about other dinosaurs, give them valuable experience publishing and enhance their computer and digital learning skills. Sweet!
One of the Wiki's I looked at from the 11tools blog was directed a teachers. There where lists of books by category: early readers, picture books,... That spawned the following idea:
During the first 9 weeks take time after a read aloud to record reflections about a book on a Wiki. eg. 1. The Very Hungary Caterpillar by Eric Carl. I liked this book because... Karlene.
Use TEKS that the class is working on to make comments about the books.
During the second 9 weeks show students how to acess the Wiki and browse for books they might like to read during their library time. Continue adding books as a whole class and provide support to students as they dictate what they wrote in their journal. (I have students keep a journal in the library center where they record what books they've read) In the 3rd 9 weeks release more control to the students and by the 4th 9weeks they should be inputing their own reading information independently.
I'm sure we'll all have more ideas as we go along. Way to go everybody! I love the things I'm reading. :)
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