Wikis in Education

Wikis are an excellent tool to have students work collaboratively on projects or to use as a classroom web site.  Listed below are good examples of Wiki's in education.  These examples are from WetPaint and Wikispaces, but any Wiki site can be used. 

Littlewood's Nature Guide is a fifth grade project where students create pages that describe animals and plants in their nature center.  The navigation is well established and student templates for plant and animal pages are established with directions on how to use the template.  The main learning goal for this site appears to be around biological classification.

Surrey Connect Science 8 Wikinotes - This is a comprehensive 8th grade science course site that is used in a similar manner to a Blackboard course.  The teacher shares information on the site including assignments, modules, and calendar items.  My favorite part of this site is the integration of other online technologies through student projects. Each of the four module has a link to student projects.  Many of these projects show how 8th grade students used different technologies to complete their projects that obviously had the same learning goal.  Student projects are not cookie cutter examples.  For the same project students use youtube, voicethread, wiki page, and web pages to demostrate their understanding of a topic. 

Bergmann Science -  This teacher uses this wiki to provide links to documents, web resources, and videos to support the science curriculum.  He includes a message to students and parents explaining that students do not have to join wikispaces to get the information, but provides the benefits of joining along with online safety guidelines.

Please share examples of wikis that you feel are exceptional examples of using wikis in education.