Wiki-Wiki

I have been having a tremendous amount of fun creating wikis for use in my classroom and with my students. This week, I decided to create the instructions for an upcoming project into a home page on the newest wiki that I will be creating interactively with my 8th graders. It is called BigKidRecommend; 8th graders will develop short author studies accompanied by videos that they produce of scenes from their favorite children's books. Once completed, they will add their pages to the wiki space and I will use it with my younger students when we do author studies or when they are searching for something new to read. I have produced several wikis; a couple of these are www.whome.wikispaces.com (a website with lessons regarding our environment) and this one www.bigkidsrecommend.wikispaces.com. These are a practical and easy way to connect your students to technology.