Wikis for Collaboration

In my earlier post, I introduced what I felt would be a good use of wikis in the classroom, and fater viewing some other blogs of the same topic( uses of wikis in the classroom), it seems that a book study is a common use for middle & high school students. Elemenatry teachers seem a little harder pressed to come up with ideas that are practical and doable for the age group they teach(especially grades k-3). Now at LCHS, we have a group of junior & senior student athletes that participate in a program called "Raider Readers". This groupof LCHS students spend one hour per week at Catoctin Elementary reading and sharing reading activities with various students at Catoctin, and this also presents a great way for a wiki to become part of what the high school students are doing. The high school students could set up a wiki and frame the main concepts of that week's reading in the wiki. The little ones could then log on a add the 'details' to supplement & complete the frame. The high schoolers would get great experience managing & editing the wiki, and the elementary students would get to share what they've learned with the high schoolers and each other. Just another of the endless possibilities......