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http://book-making.wikispaces.com/

Watching the video clip about the advantages of wiki from commoncraft.com (People can join together to create something as a whole) started me thinking about a specific project that I do each year with my class. The project is creating a book, where each child has their own page. Every student's page has a baby picture, their name and a short paragraph relating to their name. The book's text is fashioned after Eric Carle's book Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See?. Every student's page follows the next with the same text as Eric Carle's (for example, Sara, Sara Who do you see? I see Leah smiling at me...)It's a great book for promoting literacy in early childhood because the student's love 'to read' the repetitive text and because the pictures are actually baby pictures of their classmates- the students love to guess whose baby picture is whose.

Each year, it is a huge hassle to get in the baby pictures from my students’ parents as well as the paragraphs about the students’ names. I thought creating a wiki space where my students and their parents could directly upload the picture and type in the text would be a great solution to this project. So that is what I have dedicated my wiki to. If this turns out to be effective, I will use the same wiki (but I would add new pages) to create more projects that my students and their parents can work on together. I think wikis are a great way to strengthen home-school connections.

Here's my podcast:

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A Hot Potato Matching Game - A Magic "e" Review

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