Attention: LOOK NO FURTHER…THE 2 BEST WIKI’S HAVE BEEN FOUND
Hold the applause please. The accolades should all go to the 2-wiki creators that obviously do not eat or sleep or step away from their computer. Works for me! Everything I need on two easy to use sites.
I am so elated about the two wikis that I just discovered that I cannot wait to get to work on Monday! There must be something wrong with me. Do I have a fever?
The third grade wiki
This wiki made me text my co-workers automatically because we use the same curriculum. I love finding sites like this full of items I would never take the time to make unless someone paid me (and I’m talking money, not chocolate)!
- Treasures reading series with a plethora of standard appropriate activities
- Cross-curricular activities
- SMARTBoard jeopardy activity
- Go Math! series (could not open attachments)
- All 3rd grade subjects areas
- Links for 3rd grade Florida standards
K-12 WIKI
This site has links to sites, plug-ins, wikis, blogs, LiveBinders, and more resources than you can imagine in one site.
- Links are by grade level (all grade levels) and subject
- Links by subject
- Links for Interactive Whiteboard
- Links by Holiday and Theme
- A majority of the homepage links open to pages with numerous links
COMPARE AND CONTRASTING THE WIKI’S
Obviously the 3rd grade wiki will only apply to people teaching third grade and using the same curriculum (science and social studies links and information maybe useful for others). It was very user friendly. The only issue I had was opening the math activities. I probably just need a specific plugin and will have to contact my computer tech.
The K-12 wiki has so much information it can be overwhelming. For example, if I click on 3rd grade language arts it takes me to a page with hundreds of links. They are organized but there are a lot, but at least they are all in one spot. I like the fact that the main page provided free flash plugin links so that I am able to utilize everything the site offers (something I needed for the 3rd grade wiki).
Summary
Personally for me I would start with the 3rd grade wiki. If I did not find what I need thee I would head to the K-12 wiki. By the way, the K-12 even has links for driver’s education. So now you know why I said that these two wiki’s have EVERYTHING and they are free!
Mr. Wikipedia
I found the two videos on Jimmy Wales very informative. Years ago I was trained on wiki’s and I did not care for them. After my recent re-exposure, I am ready to go to China and order “Stir Fried Wikipedia”. Here’s is a few important items I learned about Wikipedia:
- Defined as “the sum of all knowledge”
- Mostly volunteers populate the page
- 18% of edits are by anonymous users
- Teachers and academics are starting to utilize
- Free license
- Written to be neutral
- Associated with Wikimedia (their charity)
While I like the features of the 3rd grade Wiki, I believe that the K-12 Wiki site would best suit my certification area. I love the fact that they have links by grade and subject area. Is this site free? If it is not free, it would be great to ask the decision makers at your school to purchase a license for the teachers to use. I believe that I will use this site to reinforce what my daughter is already learning at school. In addition, I will share it with my colleagues.
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Great find with the K-12 Wiki site. I loved how many middle school math links they had on their site. I really liked how you put a screen shot from each site in your blog so we could get a preview of where we would visit when we followed your link. The 3rd grade Wiki looks great, but didn’t really apply to my teaching situation both on the job and at home. I did wonder if it might help out friends I have that work with 3rd graders. Did the 3rd grade wiki have information about any other state standards or homeschooling? I love the humor in your blog. The only suggestion I have is that you link every mention of the site to the actual site including the pictures. I did have to look for your link to the K-12 wiki site. It wasn’t obvious to me. Perhaps in your next post, you could share a little more about your journey to find the sites or about what your teaching assignment is so the reader doesn’t need to check back with your about page. I also wasn’t sure what you meant when you said the 3rd grade wiki used the same curriculum. I thought perhaps it was because you were from Florida and it had the Florida standards or maybe you meant a specific curriculum.
I really enjoyed navigating through the K-12 Wiki. It has lots of resources more than I could ever look at. But it is nice to have the option to view and use all of these resources. I like that it is organized by grade level and subject area. I also like that the Wiki gives you access to many different links so easily. Although I truly like the K-12 site I think that the third grade sight is very informative too. It is a site that I would suggest to the third grade teachers at my school. Is there any way for you to share your lessons and ideas on the Wikis? If so I think that you should look into that. Great wikis and they are wiki, wikity wikit awesome!!!!!!
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That third grade wiki looked pretty great. I know that there are probably some of these out there for my High School Social Studies world too, and you have made me want to go out there and find them!
I love the way you make it easy for your readers to go out and see what you are talking about with your links. Did you add anything to this site, or are you just “taking”? We tried to set up a repository like this in our district, but we mostly found that people went there to find things, not to add things. Something to think about when you are creating a wiki.
I liked your neat and tidy summary of Wikipedia as well. The links within were a great idea – especially if you want to use this blog outside of our Full Sail world. Maybe more of a descriptor as to where the links will take the reader would clarify.
As usual Daria, great job!
Andy
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