Using+a+Wiki

====Our classroom wiki is used for a variety of purposes. It is a place to share a joke, write a story, comment on our classmates' pages, view and share class videos, do our homework, check out great educational links and so much more. Our wiki changes as we change and we continue to find new ways to utilize it. The wiki allows us to share not just with our classmates and teacher, but with our parents, grandparents and the world. ====

 The following is an article published in the Student Corner of the MACUL Journal's Fall edition.
I asked the 2nd graders to tell me what they like about technology and our classroom wiki. Here are some of their responses. You can view our wiki at [|www.wikiharju.wikispaces.com]
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My favorite way to work with technology is using the class wiki. There is so much to learn on the wiki. My favorite part of the wiki is the joke page. A lot of kids in our class have written stories. The stories are on a page called Student Authors. Click on the link to someone’s story and hear their voice read their book aloud to you. Everybody has their own page. That is why I love the wiki! By Alec

I like technology because we get to work together. I love the wiki. We use it all the time. The wiki inspires us to write books. We make Claymation. It is fun. We do homework on the wiki. By Maddie

I like the wiki because we can do our homework on it. We can play games and type stories. I really like to read jokes on the jokes page. By Dathon

I like the wiki. The wiki is cool. We can play games. You can spend all day on the wiki. That would be fun. Go to Links to great websites and you’ll find fun games. By Elise

I like technology because you can do really cool things with it. Our class wiki is fun because we read other peoples’ stories. We type our stories. We look at other peoples’ artwork and get ideas. We play games by following the links our teacher has put on the site. We watch our Claymation videos. We write jokes and write about our fav orite books on shared pages. We do our homework on the wiki. Almost always I type my spelling words on the wiki. It makes doing home work more fun. I also liked recording poems with the camera. We watch our class videos. By Katherine I like the wiki because it has games. I like to look at the videos. It is fun. By Malik

I like the wiki because we type our stories. We put them on our student authors’ page. Another thing I like about the wiki is we can watch the videos we make. Our teacher tapes us and puts our videos on the wiki. By Aidan

I like the wiki because you can do your homework on it. We share jokes on it. It is so cool because we did a movie. We get to make funny people on the wiki. We get to read other people’s pages and get ideas. We get to type stories. By Kennedy

What I like best about the class wiki is that it is a website that we can share all of the stuff we do in the classroom and on the computer. I like technology because it is so cool. By Ally

The wiki is the best website in the world! By Luke

//**Highlights from last 2008-09 class**// //Attack of the Moon Bugs

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Kennedy's Stories//

Alejandro's Stories

Alec's Stories