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toc =Wikis= For the homework, you were to visit http://wikisatca.wikispaces.com to view "[|Wikis in Plain English]." This whimsical look at wikis is a part of a very popular video series on Web 2.0 tools, among other things. Check them out at www.commoncraft.com.

In addition while at "Wikis at CA," checkout some of the example linked to under examples at ca.
 * **Title** || **Teacher** || **Discipline** || **Grade Level** || **Description** ||
 * Short Stories || Risko & Gardner || Lang Arts || 8 || Collaboratively written short stories ||
 * Class wiki || Stewart || Lang Arts || 6 || Variety of uses for wikis in a Language Arts class ||
 * planningazengarden || Sarah Ritter || World Cultures || 6 || Groups of students created plans for a zen garden on campus ||
 * Election 2008 || Steve Goldberg || US elective || 11-12 || Elective course on the 2008 US elections ||
 * calanguageartswhite || Briarly White || Language Arts || 7 || Online book summary for Beowulf ||
 * welcometoca || Olman Trana-Aguilar || Spanish || 9-12 || Students created guides for our visiting exchange students ||
 * Sleep Wiki || Heidi Maloy || Biology || 9 || Online discussion for sleep patterns ||
 * Literature Discussion || German Urioste || English || 9-12 || Discussions for readings ||
 * historicalscientists || Aaron Rothrock || Science || 6 || Biographies of Scientists ||
 * Robotics || Joselyn Todd || Science || 7 || An example of the use of wikis as the new Lab Report ||

For those interested in working with their own wiki, there are some getting started tips here.

=Google Docs= After a discussion of wikis, we then investigated [|Google Docs]. media type="youtube" key="eRqUE6IHTEA" height="344" width="425"

Google Docs can provide collaborative space for electronic documents including spreadsheets, presentations, calendars, and forms.

=Cyber-Cotillion wiki= After a brief introduction to the class wiki, we headed for the lab for some hands-on activities.