Jan

11

WikiJunior: Online Texts

Filed Under Collaboration, French, General, Geography, Math, Science, Social Studies 

WikiJunior is an impressive little site that aims to be online textbooks for classrooms that don’t have them, or don’t want them. It’s written at a much lower level than everyone’s favorite wiki, Wikipedia. This makes it suitable for much younger readers, possible those in junior high.

WikiJunior boasts a dozen “titles” that cover several different subject and an initial look at them suggests to me that the material here is at least as good as many textbooks I’ve seen. Because wikis are built collaboratively, not everything is covered. The topics that have been worked on are those that someone or other found interesting and so chose to do. However, if what you want your students to learn about isn’t there yet, the solution is an easy one: contribute to this wiki yourself.

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