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=Welcome to the Wilton 23Things Wiki!= Below are Wiki Ideas from teachers in Wayne County, MI. Please review their ideas, edit them, or add your own.

**Students**

 * Brainstorm ideas for team project
 * Create a wiki to share ideas about a certain issue such as bullying, peer pressure, or drugs
 * Contribute to a concept map of ideas from the chapter to use as a review tool for an up coming test
 * Have students contribute to a small group project
 * Daily Oral Language-each student fixes one error in a paragraph
 * create a story by having students or groups of students add a few sentences to a story beginning and see where it goes
 * After reading a chapter in the class novel, students go through and pick out vocabulary words that they think other students may struggle with and create a vocabulary study guide for that chapter.
 * Students will be able to make better use of time on group projects like to edit and contribute without having to meet in person.
 * Ask students to post their favorite mnemonics--tricks for remembering--grammar points such as verb tenses.
 * Have groups of students take turns posting class notes for use by others who were absent from class
 * Journalism students could coordinate co-writing an article or a whole newspaper by posting and editing one another's articles
 * For language arts, have groups do a creative project, such as a travel brochure, explaining or selling their book.
 * Create a wiki as a sort of pen-pal project between schools in the same school system...meeting occasionally as a special treat
 * Geography/Social Studies students could use this as a way to track their "Travel Pals" as they travel around the world until they come back to us at school. Younger grades who do the "Flat Stanley" project do this similarly
 * For a small group of students that may have expressive language goals: Have them create a wiki to paraphrase a short story. Each student could be responsible for a section of the original text. Then at the next therapy session they could orally read there finished project (address both oral and written skills).
 * Have students comment about a project - likes, dislikes, difficulites, advice/suggestions
 * students write a story in segments, while another group of students illustrate it
 * write blog instructions for activating plug ins. :)
 * Make a list of books students have read and they can make a commentary on it.
 * Make a list of terms or concepts that a student does not understand in a unit so that these issues can be addressed in class.
 * Do an author study in which students compare/contrast different books written by the same author
 * For a math class, students can post solutions to math problems.
 * Have a daily prompt or newspaper headline that students have to respond to with their reactions, ideas, thoughts, concerns and feelings.
 * For an Art and Film Class students could have a separate page for each movie they have watched. Students would then write reactions and analysis of each movie and add in video clips or them reinacting the scene or snippits of movies that would coordinate with their reaction to the film they are analyzing.
 * Have an on-going list that students/teachers can go to and suggest books the library should consider getting or replacing existing copies.
 * Students can write down the daily classwork/assignments and list the homework.
 * Allow students to create lists of creative writing prompts (or stories they would like to hear) to help fellow students during writing workshops.
 * Use a wiki for a group research paper. Each member can add their information and then can edit each others work.
 * Sharing their chapter summary
 * Writing a book review
 * Math students can solve problems and then comment on each others solutions, if they agree or suggest a different way.
 * Homework help pages, students can post questions for other students or the teacher to answer or give tips on.
 * Sharing composer and musical reviews
 * Sharing ideas for writer's notebooks
 * special education students with writing disabilities (LD, Autistic, Hearing Impaired) could use scribed notes from peers
 * Students can work collaboratively on a laboratory or project report.
 * **Post a viewing site of art slides to be viewed by students. **
 * **Create a art at home site where students can access art related sites and games for art found on the web.**


 * **Create an art criticism site for a class to view and leave comments on.**

** How you can use a PBwiki: **
Community Stakeholders
 * Brainstorming ideas for possible bond proposals, elections, needs
 * Commitee work
 * School improvement
 * Have "Teacher Wish List" (supplies, old magazines, art supplies, etc.) of items that community members could donate to a particular teacher or school.
 * Have a "community giving list" ....items from community members that are sitting in basements, on bookshelves, waiting to be donated to school or teacher (like exercise equipment for occupational therapist or sensory rooms)

Teachers

 * Build a collaborative meeting agenda
 * ​ A housing of sorts for curriculum, project examples, lesson plans, common assessments, visual glossary, about the teachers, examples of teacher artwork.
 * Include assessments such as portfolios with K-12 Curriculum benchmarks,
 * Field Trip or Study Trip List--A list of activities to do on a trip and the supplies to bring.
 * Sign up sheet for computer lab (or anything else a teacher has to sign up or sign out to use)
 * Schedule conferences
 * Have students work collaboratively on group writing assignments
 * Revise school policies, mission statements etc.
 * Work with other teachers at your grade level in other buildings to create a unit of study on a topic like geometry
 * Teachers can contribute advice and editing issues at an ongoing bases for a Wiki activity.
 * Make a list of ideas for fundraisers for special classroom projects.
 * Work in collaborative groups as you prepare for NCA accreditation (self ratings, gathering documentation, scheduling meeting times,etc)
 * Staff works together to make sure all jobs/assignments covered for 8th grade class fieldtrip to Cedar Point.
 * Tricks and tips for using technology--how to print a certain report, cool uses of technology with students
 * Report out findings you experienced while performing a "walk through" in colleagues classrooms to keep all aware of interesting teaching and learning opportunities happening in your building.
 * Create common assesments or work on tweaking a grade level document
 * Create a job list for a club. As students choose a task they will place their name next to it and as it is completed they explain briefly what was done.
 * Keep track of useful websites that teachers can refer to and to as they need or find good references.
 * Create a collaborative document for monthly updated topics or points of interest for clinicians with links to any special training forms, workshops being offered, or documents (i.e., new updated IEP forms, medicaid adjustments, assignment changes, district/county/resa seminars, etc).
 * Contact for teachers between buildings - what they are doing in their classrooms
 * compilation of enrichment activities for concepts and/or grade levels
 * Modification and accomodation ideas can be add for subject area work.
 * Plan the staff holiday party or end of the year party!
 * Use in place of a school website
 * Coordinating who is bring what for a fundraiser, party, or staff meeting
 * Adminstrators could use it to gather reactions and feed back regarding a professional development activity that has taken place or get ideas for upcoming staff meetings or professional development opportunities.
 * Compile a list of educational/professional websites and have people describe their experiences with it - pro or con. This could also be used in the parent area for parents who want to have their kids go to educational websites or need sites to help with homework.
 * Plan grade level curriculum.
 * Use it to schedule college and military visits with students
 * List students who need extra help and what kind of extra helped worked the best with specific students.
 * Use to prepare a study guide for students that can then be edited by students depending on previous responses.
 * Use to collect therapy ideas and material suggestions between all of the secondary speech language pathologists. We currently do this by interdepartment mail that is passed around "round robin" style, but using a wiki would be more efficient.
 * Use it as a memory page for your learning journey throughout the year.
 * Use to post pen pal letters instead of messing around with email accounts and addresses.
 * Keep track of where materials are in the building at any given time.
 * Teachers can keep team information for parents, students and each other to allow for better communication.
 * Teachers can poll students on subjects like: What movies do you like? What is your favorite book? Do you like to read at home? etc
 * A collection of educational technology resources shared and updated by teachers as they come across them.

Parents** Sign up to furnish classroom or party supplies
 * A map to field trip destination.
 * Schedule conferences
 * Keep track of goods sold and purchased for school rewards store.
 * Contribute topics for upcoming class project
 * Have parents note extra curricular opportunities in the area
 * Track contributions offered: materials, time and talents they are able to contribute to the school
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Allow a place where parents can get help from other parents, students, or even teachers on topics they are helping with child with.
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Create a list of school volunteer needs including overall building and specific classrooms. Then have parents indicate interest at the wiki document <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">.
 * <span style="color: #a800ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">ideas for fundraisers with contact numbers of companies listed
 * <span style="color: #a800ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Allow parents to contribute ideas for class parties, excurricular activities and school wide plays.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Organize carpooling for after school and for extracurricular activities