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=Welcome to the IEYM 4 Summer Institute Wiki!=

This wiki is being used for professional development purposes at the "Community and Diversity" MECY Summer Institute on August 26, 2009.


 * Goal**: The goal of this wiki and the summer institute is to provide teachers with greater familiarity about the Community and Diversity IEYM4 unit that has been developed for grade 4 classes in Manitoba. The wiki also provides a collaborative space for members of the MECY August 26, 2009 Summer Institute to continue connecting and reflecting about the unit and its application in the classroom.


 * Introduction to IEYM4**: The IEYM4 Community and Diversity unit blends Literacy with ICT with the study of Manitoba's geography and its diverse communities. English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies are integrated in the thematic concept-based learning of the unit. Aboriginal Perspectives and Education for Sustainable Development are incorporated in the learning experience. Both teachers and students will enjoy the opportunity provided in the unit for inquiry, decision making, problem solving, and community building.



 * What is a Wiki?**


According to Wikipedia (which is a Wiki itself) "a wiki is a website that allows the visitors themselves to easily add, remove, and otherwise edit and change the content of the wiki, and typically without the need for registration. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for mass collaborative authoring. The term wiki also can refer to the collaborative software itself (wiki engine) that facilitates the operation of such a Web site, or to certain specific wiki sites, including the computer science site (the original wiki) WikiWikiWeb and on-line encyclopedias such as Wikipedia."

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**Think about** how you and your students can create and use a wiki in your classroom. WIKISPACES invites you to create a FREE K-12 education wiki for your classroom at: [] View a short [|video] to learn how to edit wikispaces pages. The first 30 seconds explain how to set up your own wiki. The rest of the video shows you how to create and edit content.

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