The document discusses using wikis in elementary classrooms and provides examples of how third grade teachers at Bauer Elementary School in Hudsonville, MI have implemented wikis. Some key points: - The teachers explain what a wiki is and how it allows for easy collaboration. - Their wiki is hosted through their intermediate school district and allows them to assess student understanding. - Examples are provided of student work on the wiki covering various subjects and showing spelling corrections and feedback. - Different levels of security for wikis are outlined, from public to private. - The power of wikis is the authentic audience it provides beyond just the teacher. Opportunities for further collaboration are discussed.

1. Wikis in the Elementary
Classroom
Yes, Third Graders Can Do It!

2. Presented by:
Julie Myrmel and Diane Rich
3rd grade teachers
Bauer Elementary School
Hudsonville, MI 49426
email:
jmyrmel@hudsonville.k12.mi.us
drich@hudsonville.k12.mi.us

3. Our Journey
podcasting
class blog
wiki

4. What’s a Wiki?
WICK-ee or WEE-kee, Hawaiian for quick.
It’s a webpage that lets contributors easily add, remove,
edit, and change what is at the site.
A wiki can be password protected or open to any user.
Ours is hosted by our Intermediate School District

5. Blogs, Wikis and Podcasts can be used
to meet the...
Michigan Curriculum Framework
Language Arts
Grade Level Content Expectations (GLCE’s)
reading
writing
speaking
listening
viewing
National Educational Technology Standards
(NETS)

6. Power
of an authentic audience
for the students

8. What We’ve Tried--Our Wiki
http://blogs.oaisd.org/wiki/doku.php

9. Allows us to assess the level of understanding
of all of the students
food chains
A food chain is what some thing eats anather and eats anather.food comes from the sun.Dead things grow on things are called
decomposers what brake things down.Consumer is a plant what gets eaten by a producer .A producer is what eats plants. YUK!
Energy comes from ,trees,plants,flowers bees take the neckter for hunny.
Here is What i know About Black History
ichael Jordan Was not Always realley tall
nd the slaves Fought in the REV. WAR but not for the U.S.A.
Black history was a sad thing. Black pepole where kidnapt and got put in a auktion and sold to white pepole and they had to
work for the white allday long and if they did stop they wou get wipped.Some got away by following the drinking gored to the
U.G.R but it was not really under ground it was just some white pepole that thouht slavery wasent right so they would help the
black get away to fedom some made it and some dident.
Location tells where something can be found. It can also include longitude and latitude. Location can be numbers,streets or
addresses. One relative location is that you would say Maddie lives by Rachel. And the last thing is ,you can find people by
looking in a phone book or to call them and ask them what street they live on. Pretend you are taking a trip to go to Florida.
And you’ re lost. So you look at some different signs and one of them says this way to go to Florida. So you take that way and
then you aren’t lost. Another one is if you’re driving and your lost you could look in a map. And thats what I know about
location.

10. Shows teachers the skills that need to be targeted for
individual and small groups of students.
Hi,
my name is Thomas
a foll gron man can fitt side wase in a whale sharks maoth
Thomas, I have made the spelling errors bold. Please use the tools you have to fix them.
Don’t forget capitals and periods too.
Thanks,Mrs. Rich
Hi,
My name is Thomas
A full grown man can fit sideways in a whale sharks mouth.
Hi
My name is Janelle! I have 12 cows. They are boy cows. They have 4 stomachs.
Janelle, Do all cows have 4 stomachs, or just your 12 boy cows? Maybe you could make that clearer.
Mrs. Rich
Yes all cows have four stomachs
Janelle, how about rewriting your original sentences to make it clearer. After you do that, you can delete all of these messages from me.
Don’t forget to save the changes.
Hi
My name is Janelle! I have 12 cows. They are beef cows. All cows have 4 stomachs. Some are black & white. Some are red.The cows get
tall when they are butchered.
My Addition! My mom decided to add an addtion to our house and then I came up to my mom and I said, “mom I would like to move
downstairs and have my own bedroom”. And so my mom said, " would you like to have your own bedroom?”. I said, “yes”. And so my
mom said she will think about it. So I said, “ok”. The next day I woke up and I saw mom talking to the builder and then my mom came in
and said to me, " would you really really want your own bedroom?”. I said, “yes”.

11. Allows parents to compare their child’s work to classmates.
hi my name is kassie i am 8 yers old. i like hores a lot i have whun of my one his name is moon i love him a lot.My best frindse are mrith Enya
and madilin.
hi my name is Colton i am eight years old i love soccer and football and baseball and i have six people my family i have pets their dogs their
names are bailey shes a germenshepard myother dogsname is parker but i dont no what kind it is
Hi my name is Natalie. Pink is my favorite color. I love gymnatics. The bunny is my favorite animal. Christmas is my favorite holiday. Chapter
books are my favorite books. I have 5 people in my family. Carrie Underwood is my favorite singer. When I grow up I want to be a teacher.
Ouch! That hurt. It really does. When I scrach my foot.
One berning day a little girl was chaseing me. So I started runing. I was runing arouned the monkey bar’s. But she would not
stop. And I thoult if I jump acoss the monkey bar’s and runing she would stop. So I did jump and grabed the bar...
but I sliped because my hands and after LOL I did that I pritty much did a flip. Then I SLAMED my left arm on a bar so hard I
herd a crack.:-X And I started crying.8-o My teacher Mrs. Teal thalt I broke it becauseLOL I never really cry. But my parents
thalt I did not brake my arm.But they wonted to be sher so they took me to:-x the docter. And I got it Xrayed and sure enouf I
broke my arm. So I had to git a cast. But I did not git to pick my cast. So I had to git a blane white one. And I was not happy:!::-|
And you think I could stay home but I did’int.:-(

12. Social Networking
Hey Nicole maby this recess we can play with our littlest petshops
Rachel
hey nicole can i play with you guys with the littlest pet shop today? i will bring mine tomorrow!!!!!!! -MADISON R.
You spelled resses wrong on my science page-
Rachel S.
Hi Madi! I saw the “Caitlyn” page. Its kind of empty but I’m sure you’ll think of something to put in there.
From: Caitlyn
Well, Rachel, you spelled “recess” wrong as well!
Mrs. Myrmel
Hi Madi will you work on my page now? anyway cool wiki
hi I like your wiki but on your catlin page it only thing it says is catline from Bailey
Bailey you spelled Caitlyn wrong and madi will you work on my page?
I like dogs too Austin.Janelle :-x I have a standard poodle. BlakeÈ
hey Austin call me some day. BRAD
Yo Austin Have You Heard OF the Rapper Akon ?

13. Hi!! Your wiki is awsome LEAVE ONE IN MY WIKI PLESE!:-o Maddie
Thank you for that comment in my personinal narritive!;-) your friend Maddie
Hi, Sara this is Emily your Assembly page is awsome!
Hi sara you may thanks for asking-Emily
Hey Maddie I just looked at your Black history page and you wrote that harrit Tubman helped 300 familys
and she helped 200 familys. I just thought I would tell you that so you can FIXME!-Emily:-D
Hi maddie I feel bad about your dog! From Sara!
Maddie your wiki is awsome I like the end how it goes like this see you later allagater that is cute and is
your dads leg better I hope it is-Sara:-D
I didn’t now that carrieunderwood was your favorite singer.
Hi natalie I never new you wanted to be a teacher.
from Payton
i love the singer Carrieunderwood too Allison
hi Natalie I can totaly be your best friend and i can’t wait till the talint show.
From:Payton
I like Carrie Underwood.
Janelle
Hey Natalie I would like to start practiceing soon.Payton

14. They Are Excited to Share
Wow! I can’t beleve that it is almost my moms wedding. She is geting married on March 3rd. I am going to be the Maid of Honnor. [which is the first
brids maid] :-D The color of my dress is perreywincle. I am so iksited!LOL
My Addition! My mom decided to add an addtion to our house and then I came up to my mom and I said, “mom I would like to move downstairs
and have my own bedroom”. And so my mom said, " would you like to have your own bedroom?”. I said, “yes”. And so my mom said she will think
about it. So I said, “ok”. The next day I woke up and I saw mom talking to the builder and then my mom came in and said to me, " would you
really really want your own bedroom?”. I said, “yes”. So she went back outside and they both came in and went downstairs and into my new
bedroom and then I followed them down the stairs and I peeked in and I heard the builder say “I will get started on it today”. I thought “Yipy!!LOL“.
I was so excited to have my new bedroom because I used to sleep with my sister when I was about 5 years old and she would kick me like crazy.
I could not go to sleep. Now I have my own bedroom!!! It was so much fun that I have my own bedroom. Thank you for listening to my page about
my new bedroom!!!^_^
We just got done reading a book called Silver.It is about a girl named Rachel and her dog named Ruf and she has a liter of puppies and
Rachel takes a dog for her self and names it Silver and Silver runns away and Rachel finds him. It was a good book. If you want to get it go to
the libray and check it out. Trust me you will like it.

15. It’s perfect for sharing technology
projects with parents.

16. Homework

17. Other Ideas
For Students to Try
ABCs of your town
Cooperative stories/Choose an ending
Teaching others
Book clubs-at home or with other classes
Student Portfolio
Edit other people’s work for no-excuse words
for proofreading practice

18. ...For Teachers to Try
Connect with experts in the field
county/city government
scientists
writers
Volunteer mentors from school/community to
read and respond to students’ work
Teacher collaboration-lessons, ideas, links

19. The Missing Piece.... Collaboration
The power of the wiki lies in the authentic audience that
allows interaction with people other than the teacher.
Questions to ponder:
What grades to go to for collaboration?
How to find tech savvy teachers to collaborate with?

20. Levels of Security
Public Protected Private
•Wiki is only
•Anyone can view
•Everyone can view visible to people
and edit text.
the pages
•In order to add with the web
•Need a password address of the
pictures they need
unique to the wiki to
wiki and its
to register with the
make any changes
password
host.
•always a cost
•Anyone with an
account can edit
your wiki.
•wiki page often
includes advertising

21. Wikispaces
Public Protected Private
•Can edit only •Password needed
•Password unique •C
text without to view wiki
to the wiki needed
tex
•There is a charge
signing in to an to edit anything
sig
•FREE
account
acc
•No password
•N
needed, just an
nee
account with
acc
wikispaces
wik
•FREE

22. pbwiki
Public Private
•You must have a
•Password needed
password unique
to view wiki
to the wiki to edit
•There is a charge
• Do not need to
sign in by name
•various levels of
cost and features,
including free

23. Seedwiki
Public Protected/Private
•Can edit only •various levels of
text without security offered for
signing in to an a charge
account
•No passwords
used, just an
account with
seedwiki
•FREE

24. wetpaint
•Various levels of security are available at
no charge, but anyone that wants to edit
must apply to you, the wiki creator for
permission, or be invited via email
•Anyone can leave a comment
•provides a variety of backgrounds/
themes

25. Choose Your Own Ending
using wikispaces

26. Connecting and Collaborating Wiki

27. Play Around!
visit:
www.wikispaces.com
www.seedwiki.com
www.pbwiki.com
www.wetpaint.com