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What is a wiki?

A wiki is an online document used to share information about a specific topic. It can contain graphics, photographs, color, backgrounds, stylized text, and links to other wikis, blogs, webpages, etc. While the possibilities may be endless, the creativity is not.

Students will use a wiki as a dedicated learning instrument. Using research, planning, organizing, and collaborative works students will produce and publish their information to share with classmates and others outside the confines of their own classroom and school building.

As continued studies progress and new revelations and discoveries are uncovered students will be able to add information to their previously created document. The experience can be quite rewarding and even challenging at times.

Wikis give learners the opportunities to use their writing skills to apply what they have gathered about informational, non-fictional text. Readers will be enticed to read what other classmates and friends have offered to the content of the body of information.

Subject areas or topics of interest are whatever the learner can dream up or it can supplement current state curriula. The choice is your own.

I hope that as a member of this wiki you will find that technology can be a positive and interesting articfact for both teaching and learning.