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=Welcome to Your Practice Wiki!=

This is a practice wiki that I set up for you to practice playing with before you set up your own, and in addition, we can use this wiki to list the valuable resources that you each are finding as you search the web and licensed periodical databases for articles every week.

I ask everyone currently registered in SPE542 to visit this wiki and add in a link to one web site, or add a citation to a great article.

==Great Articles (include author, journal name, article title, publication information, and a very brief description of what makes the article great)==

**Getting Started**

 * Click on the edit button above to put your own content on this page.
 * To invite new members, click on **Manage Wiki** and **Invite People**.
 * To change your wiki's colors or theme, click on **Manage Wiki** and **Look and Feel**.
 * To set who can view and edit your wiki, click on **Manage Wiki** and **Permissions**.

Need Help?
Great Website: Teachers First Wiki Ideas for the Classroom by The Source For Learning: [] This site is great! It gives you so many ideas on how to use a wiki in the classroom from subject ideas to age range. It also shows you how to make a wiki step by step, even with different wiki websites. Enjoy!
 * Click on the help link above to learn more about how to use your wiki.
 * Michelle Gonzalez:**

Michelle

A wonderful website I found is 50 Ways to Use Wikis for a More Collaborative and Interactive Classroom. Some of my favorite ideas were to use a wiki for a virtual field trip, study guides, class presentations, student portfolios, fan clubs, mock debates, and/or a classroom scrapbook. This website gave some really great ideas with descriptions. Hope this website is helpful for new ways of using wikis in your classroom! 50 Ways to Use Wikis for a More Collaborative and Interactive Classroom - [] Cathy
 * Cathleen Asselin:**

I found several great websites and articles related to Wikis and Web 2.0. They include How to Teach with Wikis by Hannah Hudson which I found via the Hatch Library's Academic Search Premier database, David Wetzel's 5 Strategies for Using Wikis in the Classroom [], a Web 2.0 Tutorial http://web2tutorial.wikispaces.com/, and a scholastic article called Web 2.0, Beyond Google [|http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3753598&FullBreadCrumb=%3Ca+href%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww2.scholastic.com%2Fbrowse%2Fsearch%2F%3FNtx%3Dmode%2Bmatchallpartial%26_N%3Dfff%26Ntk%3DSCHL30_SI%26query%3][|.] Laura
 * Laura Sarno**:

**Marian Nihan:** TeachersFirst is a rich collection of lessons, units, and web resources designed to save teachers time by delivering just what they need in a practical, user-friendly, and ad-free format. We offer our own professional and classroom-ready content along with thousands of reviewed web resources, including practical ideas for classroom use and safe classroom use of Web 2.0.

I have to agre﻿e with TeachersFirst description from their home page. Easy to navigate and extremly practical for busy teachers!

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 * Marian Nihan** - Here's a great article by William Ferriter, a 6th grade teacher from North Carolina.

Ferriter, W. (2010). How Flat Is Your Classroom?. Educational Leadership, 67(7), 86-87. Retrieved from Academic Search Premier database. Retrieved from Academic Search Premier database [|Ferriter offers practical guidance for beginning a collaborative project with your class and others. He includes a list of digital clearinghouses that are designed to pair students from around the world. Says Ferriter "If you're interested in starting a global cooperation project, chances are good that there's a like-minded teacher in another country who'd be eager to collaborate]