History Wiki

For my technology project I decided to create a classroom wiki space that my students could access and use throughout the year to supplement what I was teaching in class. I saw it as we were doing our technology review blog assignment and created a very modest one that day. I just felt like this was everything I was looking for in a class website. I was able to put links up to everything I wanted them to have access to with ease. Pictures were easy to come by, and the content was mostly completed already. I just kind of played around with it for a while and in a few days I had created 3 pages including 2 full unit pages, my syllabus, and a current event article section. I was amazed at how easy it was through
http://www.pbworks.com

I signed up for a free account and I was off to the races. Everything was easily edited and very teacher friendly. I will be updating this with all of my history units by the end of next year and will hopefully have a ton of links for students to use. On top of this, I included a section for students to download daily notes if they are absent and daily activity calendar too. Overall I am psyched to have this tool and to be able to add to it at will. It can go as far as I am willing to take it. Hopefully a blog will be added for next year. Here is the link to my site:

http://howardshistory.pbworks.com

You will need to login as a student to view it.

Username: burkestudent1
Password: howardshistory

Let me know what you think. Thanks,