[LM_NET] hit: wiki lesson plans

[Nicole Meintz <MeinN@COLDWATER.K12.MI.US>]

Hi all-
Thank you so much for your responses.  I got a number of requests for a
hit, so here you go!  
Enjoy!

I set up a Celebrate Book Series page for our library
website. The students can write reviews of their favorite
series or a favorite book that it is a series. They can
also record reviews, and then other kids can read or listen
to their reviews. Meg Morris

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Have a look at the list at
http://www.shambles.net/pages/learning/ict/wikiedu/ 
Chris
ePortfolio www.shambles.net/csmith 
~*~

I'm collaborating with a fifth grade teacher now for a wiki page in
January.  The class will read a book together, probably Mr. Popper's
Penguins.  Students will write chapter summaries, create an Penguin
Dictionary  based on new words from the book or from penguin and
Antarctice research. We might bring in some geography on Antarctic
along with the science part of penguins and the language arts aspect
for creating a dictionary.
Hope this idea helps,
Rebecca Richardson
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In our school we use wikis for many things. I inititated one for book 
reviews in 6th grade (one student writes a review and kids can comment
on 
but not change the original) and another for students of Mandarin (a
new 
subject in our school, so we're still building a library collection to

support it) where they post the title and a short annotation for any 
resources they found helpful during their research on Chinese history
and 
culture. In other classes there have been multimedia  presentations
like 
illustrating French nursery rhymes, writing chaptersand gathering 
illustrations for a history text that was too thin on some topics,
creating 
a textbook for the Flash class from scratch as there was none available
and 
had been taught by the seat of her pants and a series of adventure . .
.
Maureen S. Irwin
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I made a wiki that lists school & public library wikis & blogs for YAs
for a conference last month.  You can find it at:
http://islmablogswikis.wikispaces.com/ 
It doesn't have actual lesson plans, but you can see how other school
libraries and, in some cases classroom teachers, are using blogs &
wikis.
Those of you who are using blogs & wikis in you libraries & classes,
feel free to add your links to the site.  
Anita
~*~

http://www.teachersfirst.com/content/wiki/wikiideas1.cfm 
Jan @ Delany College
jalera1 at bigpond dot net dot au





Nicole Meintz, Library Media Specialist
Legg Middle School
Coldwater, MI
meinn@coldwater.k12.mi.us

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