Ideas

=Classroom Wiki Ideas =  Post the team of the month or student of the week with a photo.

Cooperative Learning Projects: Assign team research topics for groups to become experts about. Each team writes what they find on their Wiki page. After all writing has been posted, individual students visit other teams' pages to learn about the topics, jotting down the facts they learn as they read. The information can be brought back to class for discussion or a variety of classroom activities.

Add your number: Have the little ones create a list of numbers to practice ordinal number writing and relative magnitude of numbers/number sense. This can go on as long as you want and simply requires logging on, clicking edit, adding a number, and saving.

Choose a year-long theme that individuals or groups add information to throughout the year Extension from Above: Supplement classroom topics with posts about related information that you may not have time to teach during classtime

Student Portfolios for any subject

Posting of Student Projects (just be careful with this one; Wiki should be interactive/social, not one-sided)

Write weekly or monthly newsletters or portions of the newsletter by group: This is a great way to encourage cooperative writing on a regular basis

Report on Current Events (find article online and put link to article)

Post a YouTube or United Streaming Video and a corresponding discussion question or paper-based written assignment (This is a good way to extend the classroom when time is tight.) [|Click here] to watch a sample U.S. Video on Geometry MAS Student Login is: Username=masstudent Password=student

Collaborative Storytelling

Lesson Summaries Sharing Notes Introduce Upcoming Class Topic/Concept (with brief corresponding paper-based assignment to get the wheels spinning before your in-class lesson) Individual Assessment

Wiki Word Wall ([|Awesome Visual Dictionary])

Word Masters (teach and learn vocabulary from each other)

Wiki Warm-up: Rotate students to post a sentence or two about a theme/topic while you take attendance. This could be a good variation of the Word Wall or Word Masters concept in which a visit to the computer lab requires students to learn about the words posted by their classmates to complete a paper-based activity, maybe a crossword a student creates on [|Puzzle Maker]. My third and fourth graders used to rotate on that site each week to make puzzles for the week's spelling words. The students would print and I would run off their puzzles for everyone to solve for fun each Friday.

Current events from around the world. Look at the same event and compare how different countries report the event. Use the following website for the news. [|Click here for today's newspapers from around the world]