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Wild about Wikis
Wikis are like a giant sheet of butcher paper that we all can add our ideas to, except instead of writing with a marker on the paper, we type on the page that others are also typing on. Wikis are a collaboration tool useful for sharing, writing, and editing. Our Google Apps documents are considered Wikis when we share them so others can edit. Visit some school-focused wikis to see how wikis are being used in the classroom: Wikis can be used in many different ways for collaborating such as: We can create wikis in: Some public wikis are:
 * Adams News Wiki
 * Mr. Berkowitz's Seventh Grade Class
 * Ms. C's Middle School Information Technology wiki!
 * Paul Allison's High School Online Collaborative Writing wiki
 * Team 8 Blue Saves the World!
 * <span style="color: black; display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Wikis for Education
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 * <span style="color: black; display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Creating and organizing content and/or study guides
 * <span style="color: black; display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Lesson summaries or exit cards
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 * <span style="color: black; display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Sign up sheets
 * <span style="color: black; display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Vocabulary study
 * <span style="color: black; display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Google Apps as a document that everyone can edit
 * <span style="color: black; display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">In Moodle
 * <span style="color: black; display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">TitanPad
 * <span style="color: black; display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Wikispaces