Listed below are some of the great uses of wikis & blogs in the classroom developed by Summercore session 3 at Horace Mann.

Blogs

• Using a classroom blog as a parent newsletter 
• Having each student be responsible for recording notes
• Administrative blog to create community within a school for faculty to hear different voices from other faculty - (e.g., a book club for literature professors, topic of the day for faculty)
• Current events - topic of the week - where each student has to write a comment of that event
• Thoughts of what was good and what was bad on field trips with the understanding 
• Correct a bad lab report for science class
• Have a student book club
• Create a tech blog for department members to comment on various technology
• Having a team blog to upload videos and discuss particular plays
• Math-problem solving blog
• Convert a webquest into a blog with student records and assigning different roles
• Blog of games and new activities for the a physical education class
• Emulate the writing style of a writer

Wikis

• Creating a collaborative study guide for review
• Literature response, poetry reading circles, analogies
• Anti-drug wiki for Life Skills class where students select a drug and conduct research
• Periodic table wiki where each student can select a wiki
• A glossary page for students to create definitions
• Create a newsletter for parents where kids can dictate text and pictures within the wiki
• Present a problem in a math class that students would work on for homework - introduce the problem in class and reinforce their knowledge of the question with supplements contained in the wiki
• Students collaborate to work on script-writing
• Have clubs work on a project together
• Serve as a place for graduates to stay in touch
• Create a where in the world game for a geography class where each student has a page and create a list of clues on each page
• Create self-help site for technology departments of troubleshooting hardware
• Election wiki for pages on each candidate
• Dividing students into groups at the beginning of the year and each group creates review information for unit and final exams
• Create wiki for the science teachers where students can download labs and teachers can edit
• Expand on particular units in a wiki
• Place for kids to write ideas on test preparation and studying habits -- place for teachers to post old tests, such as SATs