Science+Wiki


 * __Allanah's Wikis as examples__**

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Flight- written as a resource page for Year Five learning about Flight- some collaboration with a nearby school studying the same topic.

Hemispheres- written by children in Year Four/ Five as a collaboration to find out differences and similarities between north and south hemispheres. Won a Chase Award!

Astronomy- written as a resource hub for inquiring about astronomy and to share our HOT task animation based on those learnings.

Waterways A beginning waterways wiki- with separate pages for each group to edit.


 * __Examples of Science Wikis__**

http://codeblue.wikispaces.com/ General links that you can explore your individual body system with- digestive, circulatory, skeletal.

http://environmentalscienceinteractions.wikispaces.com/ Secondary Environmental Science Investigation Resource Wiki.

http://scienceinquirer.wikispaces.com/freestuff/ Free Science Stuff - posters, videos, links

http://room3tai.wikispaces.com/Science Written by NZ Lynne Crowe of Te Awamutu Intermediate as a resource for science links.

http://hawkesbiology.wikispaces.com/ Australian Secondary School Biology Wiki

http://year7hawkesdale.wikispaces.com/ Year Six/Seven Wiki to support maths/science classes.


 * __Examples of Wikis for General Collaboration__**

http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/ Written by Lenva Sheering-a site to help teachers and students find web2.0 tools to suit their needs and purpose.

http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/ Written by Andrew Churches from Auckland focussing on Bloom's Digital Taxonomy.

__**Wikis that help you build wikis**__

@http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers Where you go to get your ad free wikispaces wiki - as long as you work in K-12 education.

http://gettingtrickywithwikis.wikispaces.com/ Lenva's definitive wiki on add things to your wiki- go there if you get stuck or want to try something tricky with your wiki.

@http://wikispacetutorials.com/ Video tutorials related to wikispaces.

http://educationalsoftware.wikispaces.com/Wikispaces+Tutorial Suzie's wikispace help page

__**Other Wiki Providers**__

@http://pbworks.com/ As easy as Peanut Butter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikipedia- peer reviewed wiki on everything

@http://www.wikimedia.org/ Links to other significant wiki.

@http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior Wiki to provide non-fiction books for children up to Year Eight

Linking a wiki to on-line social bookmarking

@http://delicious.com/ Join here to begin

@http://delicious.com/AllanahK Allanah's bookmarks

__**Easy things that you can embed in your wiki to make it more interactive.**__

Voicethreads related to the topic like this example.

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You Tube Videos related to your science topic.

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This is a Google video that can be embedded as well.

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Straight audio with tools like AudioPal or Divshare or AudioBoo share as a public link from an on line storage facility like DropBox.

Link with Dropbox will look like this...

Jessica's Reading

Here is a recording I made quickly with AudioBoo.

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Another way for people to quickly record their thoughts is to use Wallwisher.

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You can even embed all sorts of collaborative tools in a wiki so children can quickly add their ideas- the joy of Wallwisher is that all children can add to a wall at the same time. With a wiki only one person can edit a space at the same time- otherwise one person will overwrite the work of another.

Lets get together and make a wiki for our classes.