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=Welcome to the West Perry Social Studies Wiki!= This wiki was created by CFF teachers for teachers. Thank you to all teachers who have contributed in the past and to those of you who will contribute in the future!

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Uses for Wikis
Looking for suggestions on how to use wikis in your classroom? Then check out the Ways to Use Wikis page for ideas. Please add one of your own if you have had success with wikis in your classroom. Post a link to your wiki if you wish! If you are looking for concrete examples of classroom wiki pages, then check out the Educational Wikis website.

TIMELINE TOOLS
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**RUBRIC MAKER**
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Teacher Tube and You Tube
Educationally related videos that teachers can use in class, or a place to post student productions. Go to [|Teacher Tube] to search the resources available. Likewise [|You tube] is a similar resource with many good videos for you to use or to place a student production.

Google Docs
Commonly used platform for communication and sharing. Multiple students can work on the same document at the same time. [|Google Docs] is great for collaboration opportunities.

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 * Google Squares**

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 * Google Scholar**

Animoto
A site where users can upload and create instant multimedia presentations. Why not use [|animoto] as an alternative to a book report.

Blogs
Blogs are one of the most effective tools to encourage students to write, reflect and respond critically and appropriately. [|Blogs]also have a wealth of information in them so students need to evaluate the information discriminately. Blogs have been used by educators in many unique ways such as students blogging as a character from literatuer and responding to each other's blogs in character.

Wordle
A wordel is an application that creates **Word Clouds** from text. The more often a word is used, the larger the text representarion of that word will be. You can print them or use the wordles as screen capture for use on blogs or wikis. Wordles can be created to identify frequently used words in a student's writing or parts of speech. You can aslo create a wordle from another writer's text. To create the wordle, highlight the text that will be created into the wordle and then follow the directions on the [|Wordle] Web site.

Photo Story
Photo Story is a free download from Microsoft Office Package that can be used in a variety of ways for digital storytelling. Using Photo Story, students can work in collaborative groups or individually to create either chapter or book summaries. [|Photo Story] can also be used to write creative stories of research topics. Copyright friendly images for use in Photo Story on [|public domain images].

[|**Read Write Think**]
provides teachers with a wealth of quality, activities, lessons, and resources for both teachers and students.

[|Comic Strip Creator]
is a resource on Read Write Think that allows students to create comic strips that may show things such as alliteration, satire, debating, etc.

[|Voki]
Voki enables users to express themselves on the web in their own voice using a talking character. You can customize your Voki to look like you or take on the identity of lots of other types of characters… animals, monsters, anime etc. Your Voki can speak with your own voice which is added via microphone, upload, or phone.

[|XtraNormal Beta]
Xtranormal’s mission is to bring movie-making to the people. Movie-making, short and long, online and on-screen, private and public, will be the most important communications process of the 21st century. Turn your text into a movie.

Veteran's History Project was a cross-curricular project done between a 9th grade Lang Arts class and a 10th grade Cultures class. http://elco-veterans-history-project.wikispaces.com/

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Wordle

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