I found a couple of interesting wikis. The first was a wiki that was used as a school website from Arbor Heights Elementary School is Washington. I really liked how they were able to share information with families. Parents could easily go on and download forms, flyers, and newsletters. I thought that would be neat for our school to have a wiki as our school website.
The next wiki I looked at was Book Trailers for Readers. I absolutely loved this wiki because it spotlighted great books for kids and teens. This particular wiki had a variety of featured books for kids. Each book, had a schooltube and Youtube trailer so that kids could find out more about the book. It also included the author, number of pages, AR level, AR points, and the Lexile level. This particular wiki really inspired me! I would love to have a wiki like this for my students to find out more about different kinds of books. I think that it would get them excited to read. Although I love the idea of putting together a wiki like this, it would take a lot of time and that is something that I do not have a lot of. I would also have to watch out for people changing the content of my wiki because it can be viewed and changed by anyone with access to the internet. I could get over these hurdles by starting the wiki in the summer when I have more time to modify and monitor. It might be a little bit more difficult during the school year, but I think that it would be worth it.
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